…through childbirth is just false. As Senator John Kerry (D-MA) pointed out in a recent editorial, undocumented parents with U.S.-born children have to wait decades to apply for family-sponsored citizenship:…
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…fast-tracked the deportation of apprehended border crossers. Detained immigrants are often held in dangerous detention facilities. Programs such as 287(g) transform local police into proxy immigration agents. Immigrant families containing…
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…to purchase unsubsidized health insurance will provide a particular hurdle for immigrants. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the majority of individual health insurance plans purchased on the individual market…
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…Mexican police in January 2021 on his way back to rejoin his family. Following both of those raids, the employers largely received slaps on the wrist for hiring undocumented immigrants…
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…humanitarian protections, like refugee and asylum status, promoting citizenship, and processing family and employment-based applications for lawful permanent residents. Sadly, this move sets the stage for viewing would-be refugees, asylum…
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…U.S.-born children, and was caught illegally crossing the border in May 2010 to get back to his family in San Diego. Rojas was beaten and tased, even as he lay…
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…only through employment-based channels but through family reunification and as refugees and asylees. They can also be found within the population of unauthorized workers. The importance of reforming our system—all…
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…deport less than 4 percent of the undocumented population and a long precedent of protecting those with equities from deportation, like long term residents and individuals with family ties. Long…
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…in collapse. Without rhyme or reason, outcomes differed from one family to the next, to the extent that some peoples’ fates might as well have been decided by the roll…
Read More…we may need to put political differences aside for the sake of family, friends, and pumpkin pie. But when you work in immigration, people inevitably bring the topic up and…
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