The Trump administration’s attacks on DACA highlights the need for a comprehensive immigration policy, experts say

by Anabel Mendoza | Jun 30, 2020 | Featured, Immigration

The Trump administration’s ongoing attacks on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are an issue of “partisan politicization,” said Thomas Saenz, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund on Monday. “What we...

Customs and Border Protection uses pandemic as a cover for deportations, advocates say

by Shirin Ali | Jun 26, 2020 | Featured, Immigration

Several Democratic senators, including former presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, grilled Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan on reports that unaccompanied migrant children are not being appropriately screened to determine if they are...

Harris, Hassan grill CBP chief on misspending claims and agents’ role in protest enforcement

by Anabel Mendoza | Jun 26, 2020 | Featured, Immigration

Sen. Kamala Harris demanded Thursday that the head of Customs and Border Protection explain the rationale behind his agency’s deployment of border agents to anti-police brutality protests and marches across the country. “Given your mission to focus on our borders, why...

Human Rights groups push for resettlement of Afghan Sikhs after Gurudwara Attack

by Aishwarya Airy | Apr 15, 2020 | Immigration, National Security

The Sikh community in Afghanistan has sustained a series of attacks orchestrated by ISIS that killed 25 people, and a group of 26 human rights organizations is asking Congress for emergency refugee protection for Afghan Sikhs and Hindus. In a letter addressed to the...

Remain in Mexico immigration policy a national threat, says chairwoman of a Homeland Security subcommittee

by Silvia Martelli | Nov 20, 2019 | Immigration

WASHINGTON – The 10-month-old immigration policy nicknamed “Remain in Mexico” is allowing criminal organizations to expand their reach along the U.S. border, the chairwoman of a Homeland Security subcommittee hearing said Tuesday about the program that forced...

What’s at Stake in the Trump Admin’s Effort to End DACA

by HyoJung Kim | Nov 13, 2019 | Immigration

WASHINGTON – Our Conversation with Journalist, HyoJung Kim, who attended the DACA argument at the US Supreme Court on Tuesday, as it heard challenges to the Trump Administration effort to end DACA. It was President Obama who issued an Executive Order to allow...