‘Shameful,’ ‘unacceptable and unconscionable’: Biden faces blowback from Democrats over refugee cap

in Immigration & Naturalization, Noteworthy Developments

The White House said in a new statement Friday afternoon that Biden's "directive today has been the subject of some confusion." Democrats on Friday slammed President Joe Biden for keeping in place this year the cap on refugees allowed to enter the United States set by the Trump administration. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., said it was ”unacceptable and unconscionable that the Biden administration is not immediately repealing Donald Trump’s harmful, xenophobic, and racist refugee cap that cruelly restricts refugee...

29 January

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Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce ‘public charge’ immigration rule

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in Immigration & Naturalization, New Rules, Noteworthy Developments

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A narrowly divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to begin enforcing a rule making it harder for poor immigrants to gain green cards. The justices in a 5-4 vote along ideological lines said they would let the controversial immigration rules go forward even as lower courts wrestle with multiple legal challenges against them. The policy in question would expand the government's ability to refuse green cards or visas for legal immigrants determined to be a...

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...

‘Shameful,’ ‘unacceptable and unconscionable’: Biden faces blowback from Democrats over refugee cap

Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce ‘public charge’ immigration rule

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

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‘Shameful,’ ‘unacceptable and unconscionable’: Biden faces blowback from Democrats over refugee cap

Lawyers find the parents of 61 more separated migrant children