eCornell "Immigration will be a key issue in 2025. Everyone agrees that we have a broken immigration system, but people disagree on the solutions. Congress is paralyzed. Presidents try executive...
Prof. Kevin Shih, Sept. 17, 2024 "This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Trade NAFTA (TN) classification program, which was established in 1994 under the North American Free Trade Agreement...
Fritznel D. Octave, Haitian Times, Oct. 10, 2024 "Ermite Obtenu was delighted to return to the United States on Sept. 30, two months after being unjustly deported to Haiti. The young Haitian woman’s...
Mike Murrell, Michigan Public, Oct. 10, 2024 "Ibrahim Parlak will remain in the United States after two decades of legal battles. The Harbert, Michigan, restaurant owner no longer faces the threat...
Cyrus Mehta, Kaitlyn Box, Oct. 11, 2024 "On September 25, 2024, USCIS announced that it had updated guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) age for noncitizens who...
Austin Fisher, Source NM, Apr. 18, 2024
"A man from Venezuela who said he fled kidnapping and torture in his home country has been held in federal immigration custody in New Mexico for nearly six months. Now, he’s watching Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deport other Venezuelan asylum seekers — not to their home country but to places in Mexico that are potentially dangerous for people migrating. The man already experienced violence in that country and fears more if he is forced back to a place where human rights advocates have documented many other refugees who have faced kidnapping, torture and assaults. ... On March 29, when deportation officers at Cibola started informing Venezuelan asylum seekers they intended to deport them to Mexico, 145 of them wrote a letter to ICE to state their abuses and fear of removal to Mexico. “This is unjust. We suffered greatly in Mexico when we traveled to the USA to seek asylum,” they wrote. “To send us back to Mexico is to send us back to danger and death.” "