23 January

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U.S. Imposes New Visa Rules For Pregnant Women

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The State Department revealed new visa rules on Thursday that could affect pregnant women traveling to the U.S. The rules are designed to restrict so-called “birth tourism,” which applies to women giving birth in the U.S. so their children can have citizenship. Applicants will be denied tourist visas if consular officers determine their visit is designed primarily to give birth and obtain citizenship for their child, according to the rules that take effect Friday. The rules...

09 January

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Here are five USCIS changes that will impact legal immigrants in the U.S. in 2020

Posted by Scarleth Cardona

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The U.S. immigration system saw many changes ordered by the Trump administration during 2019, including some that will take effect in 2020. The changes by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will have a significant impact on the lives of millions of immigrants living legally in the United States. Designed to slow legal immigration and strengthen the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to enforce immigration laws, some of the changes create obstacles in the immigration process....

21 June

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What it’s like inside the former superstore in Texas where the US is holding 1,400 immigrant children

Posted by Scarleth Cardona

in Asylum & Deportation Proceedings, Border Patrol - USCIS, High Pressure, Immigrant Families, Noteworthy Developments, The Immigrant

Brownsville, Texas (CNN) The strangeness of the largest migrant children's center in the United States, near the border with Mexico, shows up in the details. Here, there are 1,469 boys, ages 10 to 17, housed inside the 250,000-square-foot shell of a former Walmart superstore. None of the 313 bedrooms have doors. Or ceilings, so that children lying in their beds look up past where their walls end to the scaffolding of the superstore roof high above. The...

21 June

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Flores agreement: Trump’s executive order to end family separation might run afoul of a 1997 court ruling

Posted by Scarleth Cardona

in Asylum & Deportation Proceedings, Border Patrol - USCIS, High Pressure, Immigrant Families, Noteworthy Developments, The Immigrant

The solution to the crisis of family separation at the US-Mexico border, the Trump administration has decided, is to get rid of a 1997 federal court decision that strictly limits the government’s ability to keep children in immigration detention. The administration has fingered Flores v. Reno, or the “Flores settlement,” as the reason it is “forced” to separate parents from their children to prosecute them. It claims that because it cannot keep parents and children in immigration detention together, it has no...

21 June

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Trump Retreats on Separating Families, but Thousands May Remain Apart

Posted by Scarleth Cardona

in Border Patrol - USCIS, High Pressure, Immigrant Families, Noteworthy Developments, The Immigrant

WASHINGTON — President Trump caved to enormous political pressure on Wednesday and signed an executive order meant to end the separation of families at the border by detaining parents and children together for an indefinite period. “We’re going to have strong — very strong — borders, but we are going to keep the families together,” Mr. Trump said as he signed the order in the Oval Office. “I didn’t like the sight or the feeling of...

20 June

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Taking Migrant Children From Parents Is Illegal, U.N. Tells U.S.

Posted by Scarleth Cardona

in Border Patrol - USCIS, Immigration & Naturalization, Noteworthy Developments, The Immigrant

GENEVA — The Trump administration’s practice of separating children from migrant families entering the United States violates their rights and international law, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday, urging an immediate halt to the practice. The administration angrily rejected what it called an ignorant attack by the United Nations human rights office and accused the global organization of hypocrisy. The human rights office said it appeared that, as The New York Times revealed in April, United...

09 February

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Congress Needs To Hold ICE Accountable for Abuses

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in Asylum & Deportation Proceedings, Noteworthy Developments

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When Karah de Oliveira and her husband, Fabiano, showed up at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Office in Lawrence, Massachusetts, they expected to have an interview about their marriage, the first part of an application for a green card. Fabiano has lived in the U.S. since 2005 and the two have a 5-year-old son together. But Immigration and Customs Enforcement had other ideas. ICE arrested Fabiano, who became one of many members of our communities who have been arrested while...

11 December

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Haitian quake victims in the U.S. will lose deportation protection in 2019

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in Asylum & Deportation Proceedings, Noteworthy Developments

"After years of being shielded from deportation from the United States while their disaster-prone country continues to recover from its devastating 2010 earthquake, tens of thousands of Haitians will now lose that safeguard. The special deportation protection known as Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, will be revoked for as many as 59,000 Haitians living and working in Miami and across the U.S., Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Elaine Duke announced Monday. The protection will permanently terminate...

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U.S. Imposes New Visa Rules For Pregnant Women

Here are five USCIS changes that will impact legal immigrants in the U.S. in 2020

What it’s like inside the former superstore in Texas where the US is holding 1,400 immigrant children

Flores agreement: Trump’s executive order to end family separation might run afoul of a 1997 court ruling

Trump Retreats on Separating Families, but Thousands May Remain Apart

Taking Migrant Children From Parents Is Illegal, U.N. Tells U.S.

Congress Needs To Hold ICE Accountable for Abuses

Haitian quake victims in the U.S. will lose deportation protection in 2019

Immigration Agencies Ordered Not To Use Term ‘Illegal Alien’ Under New Biden Policy

Supreme Court Seems Poised to Back Limits on Green Cards

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