Torri Lonergan, Media Matters, Feb. 14, 2025 "When President Donald Trump announced his intention to end birthright citizenship, right-wing media figures immediately began spreading misinformation...
The Guardian, Feb. 13, 2025 "The Denver public school system (DPS) on Wednesday became the first US school district to sue the Trump administration over its policy of allowing Immigration and Customs...
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, Feb. 13, 2025 Stephen Yale-Loehr , an immigration law attorney and a retired Cornell Law School professor, said while Modi can ask Trump to increase the number...
On Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025 U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin in Boston joined three other federal district court judges in decisively rejecting Trump's birthright citizenship EO. Read his 31-page...
ACLU, Feb. 12, 2025 "Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration today for access to immigrants transferred from the United States to detention at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba...
Jose Antonio Vargas, Jan. 19, 2025 - How I Got “Legal” After 31 Years as an Undocumented American
[Spoiler Alert: He got an O-1 visa and a (d)(3) waiver!]
"On Christmas night, for the first time since arriving in California on August 3, 1993, I left the United States, crossing the border into Mexico for an interview at the U.S. consulate in Tijuana. After living as an undocumented immigrant for 31 years, I finally had a chance at a visa. There was no guarantee that I would be approved. I packed for a trip that may last days, a week or two, maybe months, not exactly knowing how to pack for the worst case scenario. As I waited for several days after the interview, I was flooded with emotions and questions: What is home? Who am I without America? What if American citizenship is no longer my goal? In those hours of grilling myself, I realized — my work is global. I want to tell the stories of migrants re-shaping the Western world. Being undocumented is not an identity to me — it’s a condition. More than anything else — more than being gay, more than being Filipino — I identify as a human being who happens to be a journalist. Being a journalist is how I make sense of the world around me and my place in it. And I cannot think of a more crucial time to be a journalist, chronicling this defining issue of migration. Watch the full video to find out what happened next."