Editorial credit: Sundry Photography / Shutterstock.com Passage of Bill Codifying End of Collaboration with ICE Aimed at Building Trust with Immigrant Lancaster Residents LANCASTER, PA – Advocacy organization CASA celebrates the Lancaster City Council’s unanimous passage of the Trust Act, a historic legislative initiative crucial for boosting the sense of belonging and enhancing the safety […]
Editorial credit: a katz / Shutterstock.com By Emily Ngo | Politico NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams wants migrants “suspected” of major crimes turned over to federal immigration officials — a proposal that would curtail New York’s sanctuary city policy. His call for a rollback of the rules — his clearest criticism yet of laws […]
Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com By Kevin Frey | February 23, 2024 | Spectrum News NY1 Gov. Kathy Hochul is welcoming the prospect of President Joe Biden taking executive action on immigration. Hochul, who spoke to Spectrum News while at the White House Friday, simultaneously offered criticism of congressional Republicans. Just weeks ago, a […]
Editorial credit: Ron Adar / Shutterstock.com By Austin C. Jefferson | February 22, 2024 | City & State New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, appearing at Politico’s Governors Summit in Washington D.C., said that Democratic policy on immigration has become more open to compromise and border protections as more migrants cross into the United States. New York, […]
By Karen Aho | Immigration Impact A report released this month by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) found that refugees and asylees have generated tens of billions of dollars more in local, state, and federal tax revenues over the last 15 years than they have cost in direct government services—ultimately representing a net […]
Editorial credit: Luca Perra / Shutterstock.com By America’s Voice | February 22, 2024 Washington, DC — The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, reacting to the rumors of Biden administration executive actions on border and asylum: “The Biden administration seems to be learning some of the wrong immigration policy and […]
Editorial credit: stock_photo_world / Shutterstock.com By Gabe Ortiz | February 21, 2024 | America’s Voice In a chilling escalation against faith-based organizations and volunteers who carry out their scriptural mandate to “welcome the stranger,” corrupt Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking to shut down an El Paso group that has for years been critical […]
Editorial credit: Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.com By America’s Voice | February 21, 2024 Vanessa Cárdenas on a new WaPo mass-deportation article and Niskanen Center analysis of Heritage Project 2025 immigration plans: “What’s at stake goes well beyond immigration policy and is instead central to larger questions of who we are as a country and our […]
By Lauren Villagran | USA Today The cost of applying for U.S. citizenship is about to rise. More than 9 million legal permanent residents in the United States are eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship but haven’t done so, according to the Office of Homeland Security Statistics. On April 1, the cost of the application to naturalize is […]
By Gwynne Hogan Rachel Holliday Smith | February 13, 2024 The January brawl between NYPD officers and migrants in Times Square that went viral has sparked a national firestorm over long-standing sanctuary city policies that restrict cooperation between federal authorities and local law enforcement. Republicans seized on the attack to argue that sanctuary laws should be changed. […]