Washington, DC – October 23, 2017: Immigration reform protesters demonstrate outside the White House calling for no further deportations and a means to gain legal residency and a path to citizenship. (Shutterstock) By Linda Nwoke In December 2019, Trump’s administration decided to slightly modify an immigration condition which they described as a ‘mere clarification ‘that […]
New York, NY – September 22, 2020: Census 2020 employees seen at Sylvia’s Restaurant in Harlem during Census Drive. (Shutterstock) By Andrew Lim, Immigration Impact More than two-thirds of U.S. counties saw natural decreases in population between 2020 and 2021, according to the latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. This means that almost 2,300 […]
Washington, DC., USA, January 3, 2017 Members of the 115th congress and their families mingle on the house floor while attending the joint session on the opening day of the current session. (Shutterstock) By Leslie Dellon, Immigration Impact For more than 8 months, noncitizens with approved immigrant petitions for investments in regional centers have been […]
Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, 12-06-2021 100 migrants were returned to Mexico under title 42 health measure due to the pandemic that is currently being experienced in the world. (Shutterstock) By Rebekah Wolf, Immigration Impact The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday that it will be terminating the Title 42 border policy. The U.S. […]
“I’m so stressed. I can’t think straight,” one Ukrainian father said as he waited for his daughter to be processed by immigration officials. “I just want to hug my daughter.”
Siret Border, Romania – February 26, 2022. Ukrainian refugees. (Shutterstock) By Alicia Victoria Lozano SAN DIEGO — Armed with a backpack and a smartphone, Ihor Solomko paced back and forth outside the San Ysidro Port of Entry at the U.S.-Mexico border Tuesday, anxiously waiting for news from his eldest daughter, who was stopped by border […]
By John Washington and José Olivares, Business Insider In the fall of 2020, Brandon was playing the FIFA 2020 video game in the rec room of the LaSalle Correctional Center in Louisiana, where he had been locked up for five months. A Salvadoran man, watching the action over Brandon’s shoulder, started joking around, covering Brandon’s […]
By Josie Green, 24/7 Wall St More immigrants are living in the United States than in any other country. Nearly 45 million people who live in the U.S. were born in other countries, according to the Census Bureau. This accounts for one-fifth of the world’s immigrants, based on U.N. data. Immigrants constitute 13.7% of the […]
New York, NY – August 17, 2021: Few dozens of DACA recipients rally on Foley Square demanding citizenship now for all undocumented immigrants. (Shutterstock) By Manuel Holgin Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) held a hearing titled, “Removing Barriers to Legal Migration to Strengthen our Communities and Economy.” The hearing was held to discuss how our current […]
Representative from district’s democratic senators speak at a rally to protest former President Donald Trump’s decision to end DACA in Downtown Portland, Oregon, on September 5th, 2017. (Shutterstock) By America’s Voice As European countries and other nations around the world receive, with open arms, Ukrainian refugees fleeing from the bloody Russian invasion, in this part […]
New American citizens swear in at the SPIFFS 38th annual folk fair at Venoy Park in St. Petersburg, Florida on November 3, 2012. (Shutterstock) By Leani Garcia Torres, Immigration Impact The path toward commonsense federal immigration solutions seems to be continuing the cyclical and frustrating pattern of two steps forward, one step back. As soon […]