Posted by Rebekah Wolf , Immigration Impact, October 21, 2021  In a split decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on October 20 lifted a lower court’s protections for medically vulnerable people locked up in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The protections included requiring that ICE ...

Emir Olivares Alonso, Periódico La Jornada, Lunes 25 de octubre de 2021, p. 3 El número de migrantes detenidos en su intento por entrar a Estados Unidos alcanzó un nivel histórico en el año fiscal 2021. Más de 1.7 millones de personas en condición de movilidad irregular fueron aprehendidas por autoridades ...

Adam Sullivan / The Gazette Sep. 21, 2021 Two Iowa Republicans are co-sponsors of a bill offering legal status to ‘documented Dreamers’ but the legislation has gone nowhere since it was introduced in July Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC) photo for Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' July 28, 2021 news conference ...

Image by: Brooklyn Buzz By: Joe Biden, June 01, 2021 - Presidential Actions America is, always has been, and always will be a Nation of immigrants.  It was the premise of our founding; it is reflected in our Constitution; it is etched upon the Statue of Liberty — that “from ...

Por: Maria Ortiz, La Opinion - 27 de Mayo 2021 TUCSON, Arizona – Activistas y grupos que trabajan en favor de los inmigrantes denunciaron hoy jueves que la Administración del presidente Joe Biden está deportando ciudadanos estadounidenses recién nacidos junto a sus madres indocumentadas que recientemente cruzaron la frontera con México. Nicole ...

BY: ZACHARY WARMBRODT, POLITICO – MARCH 23, 2021 Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Sunday defended the Biden administration's decision to not expel children arriving in the U.S. amid a migrant surge along the southern border, arguing "that's not who we are." In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," ...

By Nick Miroff, Washington Post – March 13, 2021 The Biden administration is deploying the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the Mexican border to help care for thousands of unaccompanied migrant teens and children who are arriving in overwhelming numbers and being packed into detention cells and tent shelters, the ...

By: Zolan Kanno-Youngs, New York Times – March 8, 2021 The number of unaccompanied migrant children detained along the southern border has tripled in the last two weeks to more than 3,250, filling facilities akin to jails as the Biden administration struggles to find room for them in shelters, according ...

Several members of President-elect Joe Biden's transition team said the incoming administration would “need time” to undo “damage” to the U.S. immigration system and border enforcement policies that have severely limited the ability of asylum seekers to qualify for humanitarian protection. BY MARIA SACCHETTI AND NICK MIROFF, TEXAS TRIBUNE – ...

BY: EMILY COHODES, SAHANA KRIBAKARAN AND DYLAN GEE, LOS ANGELES TIMES – DEC. 8, 2020 More than 5,400 children have been detained and separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border by the Trump administration since 2017. Many families remain separated, and the violence of this policy has been compounded ...