Fallon Fischer, CBS, Apr. 6, 2023 "New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday signed into law House Bill 15 , which allows young immigrants to stay in New Mexico if returning to their home country is not safe. House Bill 15 establishes a Special...
ILCR, Mar. 30, 2023 "In this resource – updated to reflect significant changes to the Visa Bulletin that will impact special immigrant juveniles beginning in April 2023 – we discuss the visa backlog for youth applying for a green card through special immigrant...
End SIJS Backlog Coalition and The Door - "Any Day They Could Deport Me": Over 44,000 Immigrant Children Trapped in the SIJS Backlog "Please join the End SIJS Backlog Coalition and The Door for the launch of our report on the harms of the Special...
Muzaffar Chishti, Julia Gelatt, MPI, July 27, 2021 "Confronting the withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan by the end of August, the U.S. government at the eleventh hour is taking steps to address the fate of Afghans whose assistance during two decades...
C-SPAN, July 19, 2021 "State Department Spokesman Ned Prices announces that Afghans eligible for the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) Program, who have been vetted and are closes to finishing their processing will be temporarily housed at Fort Lee in Virginia...
Aamer Madhani, Darlene Superville, Associated Press, July 14, 2021 "The Biden administration said Wednesday that it is prepared to begin evacuation flights for Afghan interpreters and translators who aided the U.S. military effort in the nearly 20-year war...
Margaret Stock says the White House, the Defense Department, the State Department and DHS need to coordinate and execute a plan to rescue Afghan interpreters and their families without delay. ( Watch beginning at minute 30:30 .) "Without quick action, interpreters...
ANDREW R. CALDERÓN, The Marshall Project, Jan. 28, 2021 "Special Immigrant Juvenile status was created by Congress in 1990 to provide “humanitarian protection for abused, neglected, or abandoned child immigrants.” After arriving in the U.S., young people...
Jeffrey S. Chase, Mar. 19, 2019 "This past Friday, the Department of Homeland Security’s random policy change deeming youths between the ages of 18 and 20 years old ineligible for special immigration protection ran into a brick wall in the form of the U...
Joel Rose, Morning Edition, NPR, Mar. 27, 2017 - "As an economist, Hussein Mahrammi helped U.S. development authorities in Kabul, Afghanistan rebuild his war-torn country. He planned to stay in Afghanistan. Then, one by one, his colleagues were assaulted and...
New York Times, Mar. 10, 2017 - "Afghans who worked for the American military and government are being told that they cannot apply for special visas to the United States, even though Afghanistan is not among the countries listed in President Trump’s new travel...
Nicholas Kulish, New York Times, Mar. 4, 2017 - "An Afghan family of five that had received approval to move to the United States based on the father’s work for the American government has been detained for more than two days after flying into Los Angeles...
"A bill signed on Saturday by California Gov. Jerry Brown will provide $3 million to qualifying nonprofits to offer free legal assistance for child migrants . Nonprofit legal service providers handling the cases of recently-arrived child migrants from Central...
"Walding and other pro bono attorneys in Texas have found a more hospitable venue that considers children to be, well, children: family court. It’s a venue that puts the welfare of the child front and center more than any other in the U.S. justice system...
"Vasquez is now a permanent resident in the United States, thanks to a little-known immigration law that helps undocumented minors arriving alone in this country. The law, officially known as Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, was first enacted by Congress...