The agency in charge of granting citizenship and visas to immigrants is tired of getting duped by scammers and fraud lawyers and its new boss plans to fight back. Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,…
Democratic candidates largely avoided engaging President Trump as he fanned public fears over a migrant caravan ahead of the midterm elections. But they also avoided confronting a key question for themselves: What kind of immigration system does the party stand…
BALTIMORE, Maryland – A small button that said “defend migrants” pinned on the jacket of El Paso Bishop Mark J. Seitz of Texas was one of the few reminders of a topic that dominated much of the 2017 fall meeting…
ANN ARBOR TOWNSHIP, MI – Mark Krikorian said he likes having protesters at his appearances on university campuses. The director of the Center for Immigration Studies opened his speech Thursday at Washtenaw Community College lamenting the fact that no demonstrators…
On the homepage, Robert VerBruggen reflects on the difficulty of finding a compromise on immigration and thinks that Republicans have probably missed the chance to pass a major piece of immigration legislation in the 115th Congress. There is good reason…
Democratic senators grilled Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Ronald D. Vitiello over the Trump administration’s controversial “zero-tolerance” family separation policy, the agency’s detention of pregnant women and reports that the government is considering a new proposal that would…
After two years of Donald Trump and his anti-immigrant rhetoric, fewer immigrant families are using federal food stamps — even though no formal changes have been made to the program or its eligibility rules. The implication, according to researchers who…
Trump administration guidelines for summoning legal and undocumented immigrants before an immigration judge to start deportation procedures will expand again starting on Nov. 19. The U.S. Immigration and Citizenship Services (USCIS) recently announced that its officials will have more leeway…
Immigration arrests at U.S. national parks and other federal lands spiked dramatically this year under President Donald Trump, with some 4,010 immigration-related arrests alone since May compared to only 126 arrests in 2016, according to the Interior Department. The figures…
“I can’t deny that this was a burden, having to prove my citizenship…When we see this type of harassment, we can’t stand on the sidelines.” Raquel Terán, who was elected to Arizona’s legislature last week, won a battle against a…