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Immigration Policy

CBS News 60 Minutes: President Trump and DHS Secretary

Trump Says His Deportation Policy May Have Been “Too Tough” As we wrote previously, American voters sent a loud and clear message to President Trump on Election Day: they are

James Talarico

On Tuesday, American voters delivered a resounding rejection of Republican leadership. Importantly, the Republican walloping at the ballot box must be attributed, in large part, to the unpopularity of the

Beware of ICE at the airport

[Photo credit: Megan Varner / Getty Images]   Updated 11-02-2026: It is important for all immigrants to understand that ICE continues to arrest people at airports. These include working taxpayers

The Death of Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias in ICE Custody Last Saturday, 56-year-old Emiliano Andrade-Covarrubias, a father of three, was found dead in his bunk in the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Both Sudan and Ukrain are both active war zones

Photo credits: Ashraf Shazly/Getty (left); Alexei Alexandrov/Associated Press (right)   What happened to TPS for Ukraine and Sudan? Yesterday, the Trump Administration held off on ending the Temporary Protected Status

New Public Charge Rule - USCIS

Last week, the Trump Administration’s new public charge guidance went into effect. What is a “public charge,” you might wonder? It’s a concept that dates back to the late 1800s

El Salvador Flag

Why El Salvador Has Had TPS for More Than 25 Years More than a quarter century ago, a series of major earthquakes hit El Salvador, killing more than 1,000 people

AILA and BPR Immigration

In response to the latest unnecessary obstacle that the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has placed in the way of immigrants attempting to follow a legal pathway to

The seal of The United States Court of Appeal for the 4th Circuit

The Trump Administration and its Republican allies like to paint all immigrants as criminals, regardless of the facts. So, is it any surprise that U.S. immigration law has long treated

Federal Court Strikes Down Trump Visa Freeze

On Friday, a federal judge struck down the Trump Administration’s freeze on issuing immigrant visas to applicants from 75 countries, siding with a group of visa applicants and immigrant rights

Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) reversed a decade of precedent when it ruled that non-citizens who leave the U.S. while their immigration cases

The MS St. Louis

In 1939, the MS St. Louis, a German ship filled with Jewish people seeking refuge in the United States, was turned away from the port of Miami. The ship returned

ICE custody deaths

UPDATED August 13, 2026: Just days after we published this post, The New York Times reported that an immigrant named Jose Chajon-Raxon died shortly after being detained at New Jersey’s

graduation caps

Last week, the Trump Administration issued a new federal regulation limiting the amount of time that student visa-holders can stay in the U.S. The rule goes into effect on September

The Killing of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero

[Photo credit: Ryan Murphy / Getty Images]   Last month, in Biddeford, Maine, a federal immigration officer fatally shot 26-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero. The young father, originally from Colombia,

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