April 24, 2024

How Immigrants and Their U.S.-Born Children Fit into the Future U.S. Labor Market

Jeanne Batalova, Julia Gelatt and Michael Fix, MPI, April 2024 "The U.S. economy has changed dramatically in recent decades, from one that was heavily industrial to one that is mostly service and knowledge based. In the process, demand has grown for workers with higher levels of education and a different mix of skills. This period of rapid change is far from over. Population aging, the rise of new technologies...

April 24, 2024

The Borderlander (Video)

Chronicle of Higher Education "One woman’s journey between two countries in pursuit of an education and a brighter future Every weekday for the past 10 years, Viviana Mitre has driven back and forth from her home in Juárez, Mexico, to the University of Texas at El Paso, to work toward her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. While alone in her car each time she makes the crowded border crossing...

April 24, 2024

DeSantis Trafficking Victims Gain Work Permits, Visa Eligibility

News reports indicate that some of the migrants trafficked to Martha's Vineyard by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will receive work permits, protection against removal and eligibility for U visas. See here , here , here and here .

April 23, 2024

Groundbreaking Path2Papers Initiative Receives $1.5 Million Grant

Chris Brouwer, Cornell Law, Apr. 22, 2024 "Professors Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer and Stephen Yale-Loehr have secured a $1.5 million grant from Crankstart for their groundbreaking initiative, the Path2Papers project. Housed at Cornell Law School, this new nonprofit venture helps DACA recipients in the San Francisco Bay Area pursue work visas and other pathways to legal permanent residency. Cornell DACA recipients can...

April 23, 2024

The Much Neglected Schedule A, Group II Green Card Option Gets a Boost After USCIS Broadens the “Sciences or Arts” Definition

Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, Apr. 23, 2024 "On April 10, 2024, USCIS issued a policy alert clarifying the term “sciences or arts” for Schedule A, Group II occupations. Schedule A occupations are those for which the Department of Labor (DOL) has recognized that a shortage of U.S. workers exists. Group I occupations consist of physical therapists and professional nurses, while Group II occupations...

April 22, 2024

Groups Call for Funds for Legal Representation in Immigration Court

Rafael Bernal, The Hill, Apr. 22, 2024 "A coalition of more than 100 civil rights and immigrant rights groups are calling on Congress to fund legal representation for foreign nationals in immigrant detention. In a letter to the top appropriators in the House and Senate on Monday — Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Reps. Kay Granger (R-Texas) and Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) — the...

April 19, 2024

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April 18, 2024

Expanding Access to Lawful Migration Reduces Unlawful Migration - Study

Michael A. Clemens, April 2024 "An increasing number of migrants attempt to cross the US Southwest border without obtaining a visa or any other prior authorization. 2.5 million migrants did so in 2023. In recent years, responding to this influx, US officials have expanded lawful channels for a limited number of these migrants to cross the border, but only at official ports of entry. These expanded lawful channels...

April 18, 2024

ICE Deporting Venezuelans to Mexico

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...

April 18, 2024

DOS Suspends Visa Services in Haiti

State Department, Apr. 15, 2024 "The Department of State has suspended visa services in Haiti The information below outlines options Haitian nationals seeking U.S. visas may consider. Immigrant Visas Immigrant visas are for foreign nationals who intend to live and/or work permanently in the United States. In most cases, a relative or employer sponsors the individual by filing a petition with U.S. Citizenship...

April 18, 2024

What Is The Visa Bulletin And How Does It Work?

NIPNLG, ILRC, ABA CILA, April 2024 "This resource is intended to help SIJS advocates better understand the system used by the U.S. Department of State (DOS) to allocate visas. ... Publication of the End SIJS Backlog Coalition, 2024. This FAQ is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). This resource was written by Dalia Castillo-Granados, Director, Children’s Immigration...

April 16, 2024

Free Online Event: EVERYONE WHO IS GONE IS HERE - The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

eCornell - Wednesday, May 01, 2024, 1pm EDT [Register at the link.] In this discussion, Marielena Hincapié, Distinguished Immigration Fellow and Visiting Scholar at Cornell Law School, interviews Jonathan Blitzer, staff writer at The New Yorker and immigration expert, on his recently published book Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis . They will discuss...

April 16, 2024

Can President Biden Really Shut Down Asylum at the Border? A Q&A with Immigration Expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Apr. 16, 2024 "Spoiler alert: No, he can't. But he'll probably issue an executive order anyway. The Border Chronicle spoke with immigration expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, policy director at the American Immigration Council, about Biden’s proposal and what an asylum ban would mean for asylum seekers and border communities. ... "

April 16, 2024

Terminating Immigration Court Cases Helps Some, Hurts Others

Anna-Catherine Brigida, Houston Landing, Apr. 12, 2024 "When Blanca, 49, found out her immigration court case was thrown out, she let out a sigh of relief. When the same happened to Maria Pineda, 31, it was one of the worst days of her life. Both women have spent more than a decade in the U.S., living and working in Houston and raising their kids, who are U.S. citizens. Blanca, originally from Mexico and who asked...

April 11, 2024

Iowa Gov. Signs SB4 Copycat Law

Robin Opsahl, Iowa Capital Dispatch, Apr. 10, 2024 "Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a series of bills Wednesday, including a measure making illegal immigration a state crime in Iowa based on a Texas law currently being challenged in court. Senate File 2340 gives Iowa law enforcement officers the ability to charge people with an aggravated misdemeanor if they have been denied admission, deported or otherwise removed from...

April 10, 2024

A New Report Shows Skyrocketing Deaths in El Paso, New Mexico Border Region

Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Apr. 9, 2024 "As safe corridors for migration disappear, more people risk their lives crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. And more people die. A new report by the nonprofit No More Deaths , along with a searchable map and database, documents the increasing number of migrant deaths at the border in New Mexico and far West Texas. Until now, not much research has been done on...

April 05, 2024

Expert: SpaceX, Walmart Wins Against DOJ Create "Brave New World"

Ben Penn, Bloomberg Law, Apr. 5, 2024 "Justice Department efforts to prevent businesses from discriminating against work-authorized immigrants are in jeopardy after two courts sided with Walmart Inc. and SpaceX in declaring a little-known adjudication process unconstitutional. By halting DOJ’s internal judicial panel from considering the government’s immigration cases against the retail giant and Elon...

April 03, 2024

Immigration Law Giant Peter Schey Dies at 77

Juan José Gutiérrez, La Educacion, Apr. 2, 2024 " Today at 1:15 in the afternoon the heart of a giant of jurisprudence stopped beating. He alludes to the lawyer defending human rights, civil rights and constitutional law, the great friend of Mexico and Latin American immigrants, lawyer Peter Schey. He was 77 years old. Schey was born in the Republic of South Africa, on March 23, 1947. He came with...

April 03, 2024

Law School Clinic Rescues Haitian Client

Miami Law Staff, Apr. 2, 2024 "The University of Miami School of Law Immigration Clinic halted the deportation of a Haitian woman by demonstrating to an immigration judge the substantial risk of torture she faces upon return to Haiti. Amelia Anderson and Fiona Zhang represented their client in a court hearing in April when they were second-year law students. After six hours of testimony from the client and an...

April 02, 2024

Immigration Bond Co. Hit With $375 Judgment

CFPB et al. v. Nexus Services, Inc., et al. "Plaintiffs allege that defendants violated the Consumer Financial Protection Act (“CFPA”), the Virginia Consumer Protection Act (“VCPA”), and Massachusetts and New York consumer protection laws in administering “immigration bonds” for indigent consumers facing deportation. ... For the foregoing reasons, the court finds that plaintiffs...

April 01, 2024

Walmart Blocked OCAHO; Are Immigration Judges Next?

Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, Apr. 1, 2024 "On March 25, 2024 Chief Justice J. Randal Hall of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Statesboro Division granted Walmart’s motion for summary judgment in Walmart Inc. v. Jean King , which alleged that the administrative proceedings against the company for violations of immigration-related recordkeeping requirements should be...

March 30, 2024

A Love Story

Greg Varner, GW Today, Mar. 21, 2024 "Comedies often end with a wedding, and there’s a marriage in this story, but it’s not a comedy. This is an immigration story, and it ends in a naturalization ceremony, with some painful, dramatic scenes along the way. It begins in the Soviet Union with a gay boy called Sasha, and ends in the United States with a gay man named Alexander. They’re the same person...

March 28, 2024

481 Organizations Ask Feds for Moratorium on Deportations to Haiti

Haitian Bridge Alliance, Mar. 26, 2024 "Haitian Bridge Alliance and the undersigned 481 immigration, human rights, faith-based, and civil rights organizations write to request an extension and redesignation of the Republic of Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and a moratorium on deportations to the Republic of Haiti."

March 28, 2024

The Limits of the Go-It-Alone Approach: U.S. Migration Management Increasingly Requires Other Countries’ Cooperation

Muzaffar Chishti and Colleen Putzel-Kavanaugh, MPI, Mar. 27, 2024 "This article looks at the important role that other countries play in actualizing or curbing U.S. immigration enforcement. In a presidential election year for both the United States and Mexico, the future of this cooperation both between the two governments and throughout the region is uncertain and yet all the more important."

March 27, 2024

Expert: Florida Law Unconstitutional

Karin Fischer, Chronicle of Higher Education, Mar. 27, 2024 "A pair of doctoral students and a professor are suing to block a new Florida law that restricts public colleges in the state from hiring graduate assistants or visiting scholars from “countries of concern,” including China, Iran, and Russia. The students, who attend Florida International University, said the law jeopardizes their academic...