Susan Montoya Bryan, Rio Yamat, Associated Press, Sept. 27, 2023 "Chinese immigrant workers allege they were lured to northern New Mexico under false pretenses and forced to work 14 hours a day...
Emily Creighton, Tsion Gurmu, AIC, Sept. 21, 2023 "[A] new report publishes some of the documents uncovered in that investigation and reveals the widespread involvement and abusive enforcement tactics...
Jon Campbell, Gothamist, Sept. 22, 2023 "Federal, state and city officials say they’re committed to identifying Venezuelan migrants in New York City who are now eligible for Temporary Protected...
AIC, Sept. 20, 2023 "Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, our Policy Director, testified before Congress to explain the positive economic contributions of immigrants in the U.S. and the ongoing challenge that...
Hillary Chura, CSM, Sept. 20, 2023 "What the president could do is issue an executive action that extends parole to more nationalities, says Stephen Yale-Loehr , an immigration law professor at...
David J. Bier, July 14, 2021
"The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is poised to waste well over 100,000 employment-based green cards for legal immigrants waiting in the 1.2 million person backlog caused by the low visa caps. Instead of issuing the required 262,000 green cards, the government was only on pace as of April 1 for 113,043. The pace of approvals has increased since then. If it fails to issue these green cards by September 30, it could lose the authority to issue them at all (or will lose the authority—at least based on its current interpretation of the law). Without these green cards, many of these immigrants—primarily from India—would have to wait a lifetime for the chance to immigrate. Unfortunately, the government is not doing enough to speed up processing and save these green cards from becoming lost. Here is a list of ideas to achieve faster processing....."