by Karli Goldenberg | Sep 23, 2020 | Demographics, Immigration, Topics
WASHINGTON — Asylum seekers who could normally depend upon an in-person interpreter now will have to use contracted interpreters to help them over the phone to help protect against COVID-19, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Wednesday. USCIS implemented a...
by Augusta Saraiva | Sep 23, 2020 | Coronavirus, Health, Immigration
WASHINGTON — In a country where nearly one-third of all doctors are foreign-born, immigrants have been at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic response. But the chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship said Wednesday that undocumented...
by Nicole Girten and Anabel Mendoza | Sep 21, 2020 | Coronavirus, Featured, Immigration
Over 400 counties across the U.S. are considered “persistent poverty,” having high poverty rates for decades. Almost half of the 44 counties in Texas with persistent poverty are located along the U.S.-Mexico border and their high poverty rates and low wage employment...
by Samone Blair | Aug 21, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
Advocacy groups have accused U.S. immigration officials of providing pork and rancid halal meals to Muslim detainees at a Miami processing center. Attorneys from three organizations — Muslim Advocates, Americans for Immigrant Justice and Atlanta-based law firm...
by Shirin Ali and Anabel Mendoza | Jul 31, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
Earlier this month, a California judge ordered the release of more than 100 migrant children from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody; however, after ICE failed to meet specific prerequisites to release the children, the judge declared her order was...
by Anabel Mendoza | Jul 24, 2020 | Featured, Immigration
In early July, Frederick leaders announced a roughly $3 million COVID-19 Emergency Rental Assistance Program to help county and city residents meet their rent payments and avoid eviction. But, the program has received fewer applications than anticipated, totaling...
