July 22, 2019 – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on that it would vastly expand “expedited removal,” a provision of the law that permits the agency to rapidly deport certain…
President Donald Trump ordered major changes to U.S. asylum policies that would charge fees to those applying for humanitarian refuge in the United States. Trump’s directive also calls for tightening…
Courtesy of Stef W. Kight, Axios.com In 2018, we saw a wave of anti-immigration policies, rules and proclamations intended to obstruct U.S. immigration. Driving the news: The House and Senate failed to reach a compromise on immigration…
Fiscal year 2018 broke records for the number of decisions (42,224) by immigration judges granting or denying asylum. Denials grew faster than grants, pushing denial rates up as well. The…
Trump administration enacted an interim immigration rule effective midnight November 9, 2018 and for the next 90 days, that invoke national security powers to prevent asylum seekers from entering the…
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld President Trump Travel ban on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries, delivering to the president on Tuesday a political victory and an endorsement of his power to…
The Supreme Court upheld President Trump’s September 24, 2017 Proclamation (Travel Ban 3.0), which currently excludes nationals from seven countries, stating that the proclamation was “squarely within the scope of…
Asylum seekers can no longer seek asylum in the U.S. citing fears of domestic abuse, gang violence or fear as a LGBTQ individual . On June 11, 2018, U.S. Attorney…
“When it comes to putting immigrants on a path to deportation, it doesn’t seem to matter how long they’ve been here, the conditions they fled in the first place, the…
(CNN) February 26,2018 – The Supreme Court announced it will stay out of the dispute concerning the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program for now, meaning the Trump administration…