She’s Fighting Cancer. Her Son Is Fighting Her Deportation.

It is a common occurrence: an undocumented immigrant gets pulled over for a traffic violation, ends up in detention and swiftly is removed from the United States. In the case of Tania Romero, a Honduran mother of four who was…
ICE Folds In Immigrant Standoff

Activists escorted a 23-year-old Jamaican immigrant to New Haven Thursday evening after prevailing in a dramatic six-hour standoff against federal agents. The standoff occurred at state court in Derby, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents apparently showed up Thursday…
Bipartisan Group Reveals Agricultural Worker Immigration Bill

A bipartisan group of House members revealed an immigration bill to prop up the dwindling agricultural labor base by regularizing the status of foreign-born workers. The bill, presented by Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.), Collin…
Research Group Finds Issues With Justice Department Immigration Data Reports

IMMIGRATION COURT DATA released by the Department of Justice has contained “gross irregularities” and the agency appears to have “silently but systematically” deleted nearly a million records, a nonprofit research organization said in a report accusing the agency of mishandling…