Daniel Bush, Newsweek, Nov. 26, 2024 "Donald Trump's immigration advisers are discussing plans to enlist local law enforcement to help the federal government deport undocumented immigrants,...
Hilary Burns, Boston Globe, Nov. 26, 2024 "...Most colleges across the nation are gearing up to protect foreign-born students and faculty members who could be vulnerable when President-elect Donald...
MALDEF, Nov. 22, 2024 "A Latino civil rights organization filed a federal class-action lawsuit on Thursday against a student loan refinancing and consultation company for refusing services to certain...
Leah Douglas, Ted Hesson, Reuters, November 25, 2024 "U.S. farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a...
Jeanne Batalova, Michael Fix and Julia Gelatt, MPI, Nov. 2024 "... In the new analysis detailed here, Migration Policy Institute (MPI) researchers provide first-ever projections of the U.S. working...
Julia Preston, The Marshall Project, Sept. 8, 2023
"In the early 1990s, asylum seekers could receive work authorization as soon as they filed their claims. Fraudulent claims surged as migrants, often prompted by unscrupulous attorneys, filed for asylum just to get the permits. With changes in 1995 and 1996, the 180-day waiting period was added. The number of new claims plunged, backlogs were reduced, and for a while, cases moved relatively smoothly. ... In Congress, there are bipartisan bills to shorten the work permit waiting period to 30 days. With the partisan rancor in Washington, the measures are unlikely to advance as legislation. Lawyers and advocates on the daily battlefield of immigration have offered more pragmatic proposals. With new rules, they say, officials could simplify the application form, eliminate the stopping-and-starting asylum clock, and issue work permits valid for five years instead of two, to relieve the immigration agency of the burden of renewals."