US Immigration News

20 organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, filed a legal brief to block a federal regulation that would allow the government to indefinitely detain migrant children. The lawsuit argues that the regulation is “contrary to the best interests of children.” Nonprofit groups and medical associations filed the brief in response to the a proposal […]

On August 7, 2019 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) stopped accepting and adjudicating requests for non-military “deferred action,” a form of temporary relief from deportation for vulnerable immigrants often facing life-threatening circumstances. This is a cruel change in policy that will undoubtedly lead to untimely deaths. I’d like to tell you about three families

According to reports, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will be making new changes to the Naturalization Civics Exam that immigrants must take to become U.S. citizens. The test was first issued in 1986 and later revised in 2008. In a tweet sent out on July 19th, USCIS wrote: “We’re improving the current naturalization test

On July 30th, The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a case in federal court regarding the more than 900 children who have been separated from their families at the U.S. border since June 2018. The filing asks the court to block the Trump Administration’s practice of separating immigrant children from their parents. Last year,

I don’t know about you, but my anxiety levels have been increasing daily. It seems like there is no good news regarding immigration and immigrants. Every day, we’re faced with a new policy change, a new horror at the border, new delays…it’s easy to get caught up in the negative. We should absolutely pay attention

A new report from The Office of Inspector General revealed that several detention centers for migrant families and children in Texas are severely overcrowded with detainees who are being forced to live in squalid conditions. According to the report, minor children are not being given hot meals for days at a time and detainees are begging guards