Apr
06
Yesterday evening, lawmakers in Alabama introduced a bill proposing extensive changes to HB 56, the state’s notorious immigration enforcement law. The proposed bill follows extensive criticism from civil and immigrants’ rights leaders about HB 56, as well as numerous lawsuits that prevented more than a dozen of the law’s provisions from taking effect. While passage …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/04/06/alabama-lawmakers-propose-extensive-changes-to-states-immigration-law-hb-56/
Jan
04
BY MELANIE NEZER, HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY (HIAS) Tucked into the fiscal year 2012 spending bill the President signed before the holidays was an extension of a provision known as the “Lautenberg Amendment.” The inclusion of the extension is good news for refugees seeking religious freedom at a time when Congress has deadlocked on immigration …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2012/01/04/celebrating-a-legislative-victory-for-refugees-and-religious-freedom/
Sep
21
BY MELISSA CROW AND EMILY CREIGHTON Every year, thousands of people flee persecution in their home countries and seek safe haven in the United States. Many of them spend their entire savings on the journey, travel under life-threatening conditions, and arrive on our shores with not much more than the clothes on their backs. Those …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/09/21/give-me-your-tired-your-poor-your-huddled-masses-but-dont-let-them-work/
Aug
31
BY ERIC SIGMON, LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE SERVICE* On August 2, after a number of press conferences and late-night negotiation sessions, President Obama signed into law the Budget Control of Act of 2011, legislation that prevented the U.S. government from defaulting on its debt and requires deep cuts into future federal spending. While deficit cutting …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/08/31/what-the-new-budget-law-could-mean-for-immigrant-and-refugee-programs/
Jul
14
In the absence of a federal immigration overhaul, state lawmakers have attempted—many in vain—to address immigration at the state-level. Equally misguided, however, are recent efforts by immigration restrictionist to move anti-immigrant legislation on the federal level. Today, the House Judiciary Committee marked up and passed through committee a bill (and will take up another tomorrow …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/07/14/house-committee-takes-up-bills-that-would-indefinitely-detain-immigrants-and-eliminate-diversity-visas/
Jun
01
BY ROYCE BERNSTEIN MURRAY, ESQ. Last week, CBS refused to display an advertisement on its Jumbotron in Times Square denouncing the deportation of Haitians because it was too controversial. Deportations to a cholera-plagued and earthquake-devastated country should be controversial, especially in light of DHS’s recent announcement that it would extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/06/01/controversy-over-deportation-of-haitians-continues/
Apr
21
After the threat of a government shutdown last week, Congress finally managed to approve a budget that will keep the government running through the 2011 fiscal year. Included in that budget, however, are a host of cuts that will impact immigrants and immigration programming in the fiscal year to come. As policy experts and economists …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2011/04/21/by-the-numbers-how-fy-2011-budget-impacts-immigration/
Mar
05
Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a simple but clear reminder to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that it must act within the bounds of the law. The issue before the court was whether USCIS could properly deny an employment-based, “extraordinary ability” visa because the petitioner had not demonstrated “the …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/03/05/court-of-appeals-finds-uscis-acted-outside-the-law/
Mar
02
Yesterday marked the seventh anniversary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its immigration agencies: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). It also corresponds to the due date set by Secretary Janet Napolitano for completion of a sweeping internal review of DHS. While …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/03/02/progress-report-is-dhs-making-the-grade/
Feb
12
Asylum applicants and their attorneys have long struggled to better understand how the employment authorization asylum clock (“EAD asylum clock”) functions. The clock, which measures the number of days after an applicant files an asylum application before the applicant is eligible for work authorization, affects potentially more than 50,000 asylum applicants each year. While the …
Permanent link to this article: http://immigrationimpact.com/2010/02/12/new-report-provides-solutions-to-broken-asylum-employment-authorization-clock/
Immigration Impact is a project of the American Immigration Council.
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