Do immigrants pay taxes? The basic answer: yes. Immigrants, including those without documentation, pay billions of dollars in taxes to federal, state and local governments every year. Immigrants paid $492.4 billion in taxes in 2020, including an estimated $30.6 billion in taxes paid by undocumented immigrants. Immigrants have always been, and continue to be vital, […]
New York, NY: On December 1, advocates, including the Immigrant Defense Project, New York Immigration Coalition, sent a letter to New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson urging him to immediately pass legislation that would allow immigrants to sue the city whenever they are wrongfully turned over to immigration authorities. There are only two council […]
Protesters call upon Congress to do their job and pass pending legislation regarding the reconciliation bill pending before them. (Shutterstock) By David Torres, America’s Voice Sometimes downtrodden, other times moderately hopeful, the much-delayed immigration reform has been, in contemporary U.S. history, an episode of highs and lows that, if it did not carry with it […]
By Linda Nwoke There are several reasons people leave their home country for another, and one of such is for medical reasons. Sometimes, it can be for a short or long-term basis, depending on individual circumstances. In the United States, three central components aid accessibility to medical care for immigrants: first, the foreign national needs […]
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants participate in march for Immigrants and Mexicans protesting against Illegal Immigration reform by U.S. Congress, Los Angeles, CA – May 1, 2006 (Shutterstock) By Stef W. Kight, Axios Two leading immigration groups — the New American Economy and the American Immigration Council — are merging, in part, to prepare for a potential Republican takeover […]
An activist at the Hart Senate Office Building carries a sign to save democracy during a protest at the Hart Senate Office Building. – Washington, DC – October 27, 2021 (Shutterstock) By Daniella Diaz and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) – Democrats in the Senate have for the third time tried to use a technical procedure […]
By Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News Just a small percentage of the hundreds of thousands of migrants processed by the U.S. this year have received COVID-19 vaccinations while in federal custody, and half of them are unaccompanied children, according to unpublished government data obtained by CBS News. Collectively, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the […]
Washington, DC — The Biden administration has failed to deliver on the promise to end the use of private prisons in federal incarceration and immigration detention, according to “Broken Promises: Limits of Biden’s Executive Order on Private Prisons” a new report released today by Detention Watch Network and Project South. The report provides an overview […]
Washington, DC: The American Immigration Lawyers’ Association (AILA) President Allen Orr, Esq. stated, “We are dealing with a global pandemic and the news that a new variant of COVID-19 has been identified should be taken seriously and thoroughly reviewed by scientists and public health experts. However, the most credible public health information clearly shows that […]
Protesters at the Capitol hold banners calling for immigration reform and a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. – Washington, DC – October 27, 2021 (Shutterstock) By Noriadnys Gomez de Bybee and Jacob S. Rugh, Deseret In third grade, I (Gomez de Bybee) told my teacher at Jackson Elementary School I wanted to be the […]