Editorial credit: NYC Russ / Shutterstock.com By America’s Voice | February 9, 2024 New York, NY — A recent article in The New York Times highlights how New Yorkers are helping migrant families find housing and ensuring their children have access to basic needs. New Yorkers understand the mutual benefits behind helping migrants and that if the state wants […]
Editorial credit: Michael Vi / Shutterstock.com WASHINGTON— Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is releasing end of fiscal year (FY) 2023 data that illustrate the agency’s progress in meeting its strategic priorities. The USCIS workforce has worked tirelessly over the past year to uphold America’s promise as a nation of welcome and possibility by […]
By America’s Voice | February 9, 2024 Washington, DC —On a press call held today, leaders from immigration and Latino-focused organizations joined with the Congressional Integrity Project to assess the details and implications of a busy week on immigration policy and politics – including what the right lessons are from the failed impeachment vote of DHS Secretary […]
By Adriel Orozco | Immigration Impact The “Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024” was released on February 4. For months, a bipartisan group of senators negotiated the compromise bill, which proposes significant changes to asylum and border policy to release billions in foreign military aid. The $118 billion bill would provide the president a new emergency expulsion authority […]
By Gabe Ortiz | February 6, 2024 | America’s Voice Apparently it’s not enough for House Republicans to continue lurching forward with their baseless, unprecedented impeachment effort against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It appears they want to kick him out of the country he serves as well. Tucked in Republicans’ final report is language […]
Washington D.C. – Senate negotiators have released long-awaited legislative text and summary of a bill linking emergency assistance for Ukraine and Israel to sweeping restrictions on asylum protections and $18.5 billion in funding for border operations, receiving communities, and hiring of additional asylum officers, border agents, and immigration judges. Specifically, the legislation would create a new authority that, with narrow […]
By America’s Voice | February 4, 2024 Washington, DC — The following is a statement from Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, reacting to the introduction of the Senate immigration and border bill: “When poring over the Senate bill text, the most important letters are the ones overhanging this legislation: D.O.A. Donald Trump and many other […]
By Adriel Orozco | January 31, 2024 | Immigration Impact Immigrants are now far more likely to face the complexities of the immigration court system alone, without an attorney. As of December 2023, only 30% of immigrants with pending cases have secured representation, down from 65% just four years ago. This new data comes from […]
By Juan Avilez | January 26, 2024 | Immigration Impact Amid inaction from the federal government on immigration policy and growing calls for action from localities, some state legislatures are taking a proactive role in welcoming immigrants and refugees. Once again, states are leading the way on immigration policy in the U.S. Despite being less […]
Editorial credit: Ron Adar / Shutterstock.com Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael Alfonso, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Newark Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”), announced today the unsealing of a Complaint charging Bronx-based immigration attorney KOFI AMANKWAA and his son, KOFI […]