Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Apr. 30, 2024 "A defining issue of this century will be people on the move and where they settle. Wealthier countries like the U.S. are responding by walling...
A very useful spreadsheet by the American Immigration Council .
Muzaffar Chishti, Kathleen Bush-Joseph, and Julian Montalvo, MPI, Apr. 25, 2024 "This article provides an overview of the scale, impact, and effectiveness of Title 42, ahead of the one-year anniversary...
National Immigration Forum, Apr. 24, 2024 "Today, center-right advocacy organizations hosted a press conference unveiling a border framework that prioritizes security, order and humanity at the...
Jeanne Batalova, Julia Gelatt and Michael Fix, MPI, April 2024 "The U.S. economy has changed dramatically in recent decades, from one that was heavily industrial to one that is mostly service and...
Phaedra Haywood, Santa Fe New Mexican, Oct. 28, 2023
"A Santa Fe County church known for its use of a hallucinogenic tea has filed a federal lawsuit against the Homeland Security secretary, alleging the agency’s failure to process immigration forms for the group’s leader violates his religious rights. Jose Carlos Garcia oversees nine U.S. congregations of Centro Espírita Beneficente União do Vegetal — better known as UDV. His official title is general representative mestre, according to the complaint, filed in U.S. District Court. The job requires Garcia to attend meetings, officiate religious services and mentor lower-level leaders around the world, the complaint states. “It is of essential importance to [Garcia’s] free exercise of religion that he be able to travel freely to attend to these essential religious activities,” the complaint states. It alleges U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently has been “unnecessarily confronting and delaying” Garcia’s and his wife’s entry to the U.S. at airports and demanding to see reentry permits. The Garcias applied for reentry permits Jan. 3, the complaint says, but the petitions are still pending. The permits allow permanent residents to return to the U.S. after traveling abroad for up to two years without obtaining a visa. Recently, the pair were told they might not be allowed back in the U.S. without the permits if they leave again. The couple, who have been permanent residents of the U.S. since December 2019, are among many people in recent years who have asked the U.S. District Court in Albuquerque for help getting immigration paperwork processed in a timely manner by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Dozens of similar complaints have been filed since 2021, according to online court records. Court filings show voluntary dismissal of many of the cases, indicating they might have been resolved within months. Among the complaints: