Immigration
Some Schools Are Now Online-Only Due To The Coronavirus. ICE Says Their International Students Must Leave The US.
ICE suggested the students transfer to a school offering in-person courses to maintain their legal status in the US.
Adolfo Flores
A Top Immigration Court Official Called For Impartiality In A Memo He Sent As He Resigned
The judge was replaced by the Trump administration with the former top Immigration and Customs Enforcement prosecutor.
Hamed Aleaziz
A Government Watchdog Group Will No Longer Conduct Onsite Inspections Of Immigration Facilities Because Of The Coronavirus
"We need much more transparency and not less."
Adolfo Flores
An Attorney Says ICE Tried To Stop Her From Speaking With An Immigrant Family Facing Immediate Expulsion
"Everyone has due process rights, and part of that is access to counsel," the attorney said.
Adolfo Flores
Immigration Officers Have Been Told To Stop Applying The Trump Administration's Asylum Ban
The guidance obtained by BuzzFeed News comes less than 24 hours after a federal judge struck the asylum travel ban down.
Hamed Aleaziz
The Immigration System Is Set To Come To A Near Halt, And No One Is Paying Attention
"It essentially will shut down the immigration system — sort of the final nail in the coffin."
Hamed Aleaziz
An Immigrant Detained By ICE Fears She Will Catch COVID-19 Before She’s Reunited With Her Daughter
Attorneys for the asylum-seeker from Ecuador said her health is deteriorating in ICE detention.
Adolfo Flores
A Judge Ordered ICE To Release Immigrant Children Over Coronavirus Concerns
The judge said children detained inside its three ICE family detention centers must be released to a sponsor or with their parents by July 17.
Adolfo Flores
Trump's Visa Ban Has Sent Foreign Workers And Families In A Panic: "We Don't Know What Else To Do"
“I was devastated. We never imagined this would occur."
Hamed Aleaziz
11 Immigrants In A Detention Center For Families Have Tested Positive For COVID-19
All of the detainees are stable, asymptomatic, and remain housed in medical isolation rooms, an independent monitor reported.
Adolfo Flores
A Judge Blocked The Deportation Of A 16-Year-Old Boy Who Claims Trump Is Using The Coronavirus As An Excuse
Attorneys say the Honduran boy is trying to join his father in the US after witnessing a murder and then being threatened by a gang.
Hamed Aleaziz
A Judge Ruled The Trump Administration Must Face A Lawsuit Over Denying Coronavirus Checks To Undocumented Parents
US citizen children filed a lawsuit after Congress restricted CARES Act relief money to individuals with Social Security numbers, excluding undocumented immigrants.
Zoe Tillman
Trump Is Suspending Certain Visas For Foreign Workers
The Trump administration said the suspension is needed to ensure jobs go to Americans first as the economy recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, but employers say it will actually make things worse.
Adolfo Flores
The Supreme Court Ruled The Trump Administration Violated Federal Law When It Ended DACA
The court's decision does leave open the possibility that the Trump administration could rescind DACA — just that the process by which it did so in this case was unlawful.
Adolfo Flores
The Trump Administration Will Soon Deny Work Permits For Asylum-Seekers Who Enter The US Without Authorization
The policy will also block work permits for asylum-seekers who do not file for protections within one year of arrival in the US.
Hamed Aleaziz
The Supreme Court Refused To Hear The Trump Administration's Challenge To California's Sanctuary Law
The Trump administration had asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court's opinion upholding the law, which limited local police cooperation with federal immigration agents.
Adolfo Flores
Immigrants Delayed By The Coronavirus Are Suing To Be Naturalized In Time To Vote In The Presidential Election
Attorneys are worried their clients won’t be able to complete the last step to obtain US citizenship in time to register to vote in October after the pandemic sidelined scheduled ceremonies.
Hamed Aleaziz
A 16-Year-Old Boy Is Suing The Trump Administration, Claiming It's Using The Pandemic As An Excuse To Deport Him
The teen is the first to challenge an unprecedented policy put in place amid the coronavirus pandemic that has all but shut down asylum at the southern border.
Hamed Aleaziz
Democrats Are Calling For An Investigation Into The Trump Administration Denying DACA Recipients Federally Backed Housing Loans
“The facts are clear: HUD officials implemented a secret policy change to discriminate against DACA recipients," Sen. Bob Menendez said.
Nidhi Prakash
The Trump Administration Said It Didn’t Change Policy To Deny Housing Loans To DACA Recipients. Emails Show Otherwise.
New documents show that the Trump administration moved to block young undocumented immigrants from federal housing loans in 2018.
Nidhi Prakash
Homeland Security’s Inspector General Is Opening A Review Of The Department’s Treatment Of Pregnant Detainees
The announcement comes following BuzzFeed News’ report of a woman giving birth in a detention center near San Diego.
Ema O'Connor
Dozens Of Immigrant Families Who Were Separated At The Border Likely Shouldn't Have Been, An Internal Report Found
The inspector general's report found that 40 children were separated from their parents for at least four weeks, although one didn't see their family for more than a year.
Hamed Aleaziz
An Immigrant Says She And Two Others Were Raped Inside An ICE Detention Cell Right Before Being Deported
The woman alleges the assaults happened for over an hour inside a dark, isolated cell at a facility operated by a private prison company.
Adolfo Flores
An Immigrant Who Sued ICE Is Missing After Being Deported To A Dangerous Border City
The Mexican immigrant's attorneys said he was deported to a dangerous border city and haven't heard from him in more than a week.
Adolfo Flores
An Immigrant Man In ICE Custody Died After Contracting The Coronavirus
More than 1,000 people detained by ICE have tested positive for the coronavirus so far.
Hamed Aleaziz
This Young Man Spent His Twenties Imprisoned On A Pacific Island Before Finding Safety In Canada
Amir Sahragard hoped for safety in Australia but ended up in a brutal offshore camp. He is still dealing with the trauma as he starts a new life.
Lauren Strapagiel
The US Agency In Charge Of The Immigration System Says It's Facing A Financial Disaster Amid The Coronavirus Pandemic
"Without congressional intervention, we risk not being able to make payroll and will have to take drastic actions to keep the agency afloat," the leader of the US Citizenship and Immigration Services wrote to employees.
Hamed Aleaziz
A Girl Held In Detention On A Remote Island Celebrated Her 5th Birthday On Zoom
Supporters sang the Biloela family's eldest daughter "Happy Birthday", read her an acrostic poem and blew out candles on cakes they had baked for her.
Hannah Ryan
An Immigrant Who Tested Positive For The Coronavirus Has Died In ICE Custody
The ACLU said Wednesday that the immigrant "died because ICE refused to release him when he still had a chance to survive this deadly virus.”
Hamed Aleaziz
Guatemalans Deported From The US Are Threatened With Violence At Home Over Coronavirus Fears
"They wrote that they didn't want me here and that they were going to kill me."
Adolfo Flores
