Immigrants Will Be Vital in America’s Fastest Growing Jobs Through 2030
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted global supply chains and kept people from going back to work at a time when the demand for goods and labor is high. This has…
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Borderland: The Line Within Takes Viewers Through CBP’s Raid on a Humanitarian Aid Camp
…an undocumented immigrant who lost her DACA status in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Throughout the documentary, she resists U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) efforts to deport her….
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Moving Past Politics: How States Are Leading on Immigrant and Refugee Inclusion
…policy challenges through the Office of New Americans (ONA) State Network. Perhaps the greatest test of the ONA State Network came with the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020….
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National Public Service Campaign Reminds Americans That Belonging Begins with Us
…in particular faces stricter divides than many other nations. The 2020 presidential election and public response to the COVID-19 pandemic have made these divisions even clearer. Ignoring them can quickly…
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New Report Reveals Why USCIS Is Plagued by Enormous Backlogs and Wait Times
…of the COVID-19 pandemic on USCIS operations made a bad situation even worse. The agency’s offices shut down completely at the beginning of the pandemic and didn’t begin to reopen…
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ICE’s Changes to Family Detention Are an Improvement but Don’t Go Far Enough
…detention. The agency states that the facilities will be turned into “reception centers,” where families receive COVID-19 tests, arrange travel to their destination, and are released within three days. The…
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District Court Stops Regulations Restricting the H-1B Visa Category
…DHS and DOL claimed that high rates of U.S. unemployment due to the COVID-19 pandemic provided “good cause.” The court explained that the unprecedented scope of the pandemic is not…
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USCIS’ Proposed Changes to the Affidavit of Support are Unnecessary and Unlawful
…authorities, as well as countries around the globe, in response to the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. USCIS’ proposed changes to the Affidavit of Support are yet another attempt by…
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ICE Faces Lawsuit Over Blocking Phone Access to Detainees
…become even more critical during the COVID-19 pandemic. On May 4, a lawsuit was filed to force ICE to eliminate the barriers to phone access in two immigration detention centers…
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Are More Undocumented Immigrants Living in the US Now? Here’s What the Numbers Say
…to problems collecting accurate census data in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. From there, the authors subtracted those immigrants with legal residency. For the report, immigrants who were protected from…
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