"The administration is doing everything it can on all fronts to detain and deport as many people as possible, and to criminalize as many people as possible," says the executive director of Detention Watch Network.
AP-NORC poll: Majority of Americans support letting Dreamers stay
A new poll just released by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research gives interesting insight into Americans' thoughts on current immigration issues. The poll was performed between Sept. 28 and Oct. 2 on a pool of participants designed to be statistically reflective of U.S. adults.
Trump issues new, permanent travel ban aimed at 8 countries
President Trump has signed a new executive order restricting travel from eight nations: Iran, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Chad, Venezuela and North Korea. The ban, announced on Sunday, is meant to be the permanent replacement of the temporary travel ban issued in January and revised in March. It goes into effect just as parts of the temporary ban expire.
US State Department issues troubling new rule on visa compliance
In a cable sent to U.S. embassies worldwide, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced that all visitors who require visas to come to the United States will have to follow through on the stated purpose of their trip for at least three months.
Hope for undocumented immigrants and their advocates in Texas
Undocumented immigrants and their advocates in the Lone Star State received an eleventh-hour reprieve.
The post-Harvey plight of undocumented immigrants
For the last eight months, federal authorities have carried out the immigration enforcement agenda of President Donald Trump. Citing the need for public safety, traditional safe spaces that include churches, homeless shelters and courthouses have become targets and anything but safe.
The growing dangers of immigrant smuggling
Smuggling immigrants is a business and business is good. However, profitability is coming at the expense of the well-being, if not the lives of smuggler’s “human cargo.”
Chicago joins the legal battle over sanctuary cities
As more Texas cities line up to fight federal immigration law enforcement, a prominent metropolis to the north is drawing their own line in the fight over sanctuary cities. Another epic battle is brewing, this time with the Windy City’s top elected official.
Visas for testimony
After the deaths of 10 people in a sweltering truck parked at a San Antonio rest stop, U.S. authorities are more determined than ever to disrupt and dismantle criminal organizations engaged in human trafficking.
18 Texas counties sign immigration agreements with ICE
If people were asked the meaning of the term 287(g) agreement, they might guess it references some sort of pact between a delinquent taxpayer and the Internal Revenue Service, or even some arcane provision of the Texas Penal Code.
