How Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Turns Immigrants Into Criminals
…lives torn apart if one or both of their parents is deported. All too often, family members find themselves permanently separated, with those who were deported on one side of…
Read MorePosted by Walter Ewing | Nov 6, 2017 | Abuses, Detention, Enforcement, How the Immigration System Works
…lives torn apart if one or both of their parents is deported. All too often, family members find themselves permanently separated, with those who were deported on one side of…
Read MorePosted by Patrick Taurel | May 19, 2015 | Executive Action
…United States, alleviated, at long last, from vulnerability to exploitation and the constant threat of deportation and family separation. What you should have seen when you got your news this…
Read MorePosted by Emma Winger | Jun 14, 2021 | Immigration 101, Immigration and Crime
…cases an immigration judge must order the person deported, regardless of how long the person has lived in the United States, whether they have close family in the United States…
Read MorePosted by Mary Giovagnoli | Jun 21, 2011 | Enforcement
…(who fit into many of the categories listed), vulnerable populations caught up in the immigration system, and military families where family members are in removal proceedings even as a spouse…
Read MorePosted by Joshua Breisblatt | Jan 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
…of Jobs and Family Services, and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS) testified. LIRS collaborates with ORR to provide services to many of the unaccompanied children and had eight specific…
Read MorePosted by American Immigration Council Staff | Sep 5, 2008 | Enforcement
…immigrants to choose between possible drowning and certain imprisonment and deportation, a lot of people will take their chances. Family members will stay behind with undocumented loved ones. And people…
Read MorePosted by Kristin Macleod-Ball | Oct 2, 2020 | Business & the Workforce, Employment Based, High Skilled
…family ties seeking to permanently immigrate to the United States, but that part of the proclamation was not challenged in this lawsuit. President Trump claimed—without justification—that the foreign worker ban…
Read MorePosted by Joan Friedland | Feb 17, 2012 | State and Local
…also includes properties with high tenant turnover and multiple family members living at the same address. Those facts didn’t prevent the governor from arguing that the data pointed only to…
Read MorePosted by Walter Ewing | Nov 13, 2015 | Enforcement
…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…
Read MorePosted by Mary Giovagnoli | Feb 26, 2018 | History of Immigration, Immigration 101
…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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