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ICE’s Inadequate Recordkeeping on Treatment of Detained Asylum Seekers Threatens Their Lives
By Anne Peterson, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies As the Trump administration prepares for a dramatic increase in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention, advocates are sounding the alarm that immigrants and people seeking asylum will suffer increasingly inhumane conditions in detention facilities. Immigration detention facilities—often run by private prison companies or by […]
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Trump’s Day 1 Orders Use Fearmongering to Expand His Immigration Authority
On January 20, 2025, the day President Trump took office for his second term, he issued a series of immigration-related executive orders and proclamations that will quickly re-shape the U.S. immigration system. These executive orders affect nearly every facet of a complex and demanding system. Most of the policy changes introduced through these actions are […]
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Key facts about the U.S. Black population
Utah experienced the fastest growth in its Black population between 2010 and 2023, with an increase of 89%.
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USCIS Waives COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement for Adjustment of Status Applicants
Centering Humanity in the Immigration Debate
“La tierra se secó.” That was my dad’s short explanation for why he left Mexico as a teenager in the 1970s. His family relied on their small farm in rural northern Mexico for subsistence. But when the droughts came, the land could no longer sustain them. So, he, like my mother, moved to the U.S. […]
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DHS Publishes Federal Register Notice Extending Temporary Protected Status for Ukraine
DHS Publishes Federal Register Notice Extending Temporary Protected Status for Sudan
DHS Publishes Federal Register Notice Extending Temporary Protected Status for Venezuela
Biden Keeps Nearly 1 Million People From Losing Legal Status Under Trump – Until Fall 2026
As one of the Biden administration’s final acts on immigration, the Department of Homeland Security has announced that it is extending four grants of Temporary Protected Status – covering nearly 1 million immigrants from Venezuela, El Salvador, Ukraine, and Sudan – through fall 2026. The extensions will allow people from those countries who are currently […]
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H-1B Final Rule, H-2 Final Rule, and Revised Form I-129 Effective Jan. 17, 2025
USCIS Updates Guidance on EB-2 National Interest Waiver Petitions
USCIS Updates Filing Procedures for Form I-140
Cap Reached for Additional Returning Worker H-2B Visas for the First Half of FY 2025
The Supreme Court Cuts Off Judicial Review of USCIS Decisions Again
The Supreme Court recently cut off another path for judicial review of decisions by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) adjudicators. In Bouarfa v. Mayorkas, the Court held that a decision to revoke the prior approval of an immigrant visa petition filed by a U.S. citizen on behalf of her noncitizen spouse could not be […]
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DHS Publishes Federal Register Notice Extending Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador
The Laken Riley Act Would Give States Sweeping Power Over Immigration Policy
Who runs the U.S. immigration system? If the Senate passes the Laken Riley Act this week, the answer might not be Congress or the president. The bill, already passed in the House, would hand state attorneys general, like Ken Paxton in Texas, veto power over large swaths of federal immigration policy. Under a provision of […]
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USCIS Offices Closed Jan. 9, 2025
USCIS to Publish Revised Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker
H-1B Modernization Rule Provides Some Comfort But Also Raises Concerns
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently issued its long-awaited H-1B modernization rule. The final rule takes effect on January 17, 2025. USCIS describes several of the regulations as codifying policies the agency has followed for years. The agency also emphasized that several of the regulations were enacted to strengthen “program integrity.” The final rule […]
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