By Linda Nwoke Drug convictions can have life-altering consequences for any individual, but the results can be even more severe for immigrants. Many immigrants are unaware that a drug conviction can affect their immigration status. Federal immigration laws detail severe immigration penalties on most controlled substance offenses, including minor ones. In California, a conviction based […]
El Paso, Texas / USA – March 7, 2020: A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol vehicle drives along the U.S.-Mexico border. (Shutterstock) By Raul Pinto, Immigration Impact On January 5, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced new measures to process people seeking asylum at ports of entry on the U.S.-Mexico border who are asking to […]
By Lukas I. Alpert, MarketWatch “I’m everything you imagine me to be, as long as it’s good and it’s Godly.” That’s how Dennis Jali, a South African self-proclaimed finance guru sold his Christian-themed program of financial success to crowds of mainly African immigrants at churches and banquet halls in and around Baltimore and Washington, D.C. […]
By David Leopold, America’s Voice Washington, DC: The following is an assessment previewing the Supreme Court and 2023: Today, [January 9] the United States Supreme Court will hold its first arguments of 2023. Over their break, the Court again showed it is a willing accomplice to Republican politicians when it stayed the implementation of Title […]
Managua, Nicaragua – June 15, 2019: A Nicaraguan woman holds her child as he sits in the window of a barrio church. Happy mother and son enjoy a visit from American missionaries. (Shutterstock) On Jan. 5, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a safe and lawful way for qualifying Cubans, Haitians, and Nicaraguans with U.S.-based […]
NEW YORK, NY – MARCH 9: A Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) medallion seen on a parked New York City yellow taxi in Queens on March 9, 2021 in New York City. (Shutterstock) By Amir Khafagy, Documented NY It was an unusually mild August day in 2021, when immigrant Jamaican-American Stanford Miller, 49, who was […]
Dallas, TX USA – April 9, 2017: American Flags Waved During Immigration Reform March. (Shutterstock) (Washington)—The Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) is calling on President Biden to use executive action to enact bold policy solutions on immigration. Specifically, the ILRC is demanding action to ensure immigration benefits are more equitable and accessible, and that the […]
New York City, NY USA October 19, 2022. Migrants started arriving at the emergency relief center on Randall’s Island where tents hold up to 500 cots and other facilities for single adult men. (Shutterstock) By Jennie Taer, The Daily Caller Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is planning to transport illegal immigrants to New York City, […]
El Paso, TX USA January 4, 2023 – Migrants in El Paso, TX waiting in line with a cup in their hand to get soup. (Shutterstock) By Melissa Del Bosque, Documented NY Foreign data sharing agreements expanded during the Trump era are still being used by the Biden Administration to separate families and deny asylum […]
Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico 17-10-2022, Nearly 600 Venezuelan migrants are stranded in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua after being expelled from the United States under title 42. (Shutterstock) By Ariane de Vogue and Priscilla Alvarez, CNN CNN — The Supreme Court said Tuesday that the controversial Trump-era border restriction known as Title 42 will remain in effect while […]