California
Protesters shut down the Golden Gate Bridge briefly on Thursday morning, 9/30, calling on Democrats in Congress to take action to protect immigrant families…
California will take in the highest number of Afghan refugees of participating U.S. states…
The Courts
A federal judge in Washington has ordered the Biden administration to stop using a public-health law to turn back families who enter the U.S. illegally from Mexico seeking asylum…
Last week, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis escalated his fight with Biden over immigration, directing Florida agencies to stop assisting federal authorities in relocating migrants…
President and Administration
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Mayorkas issued broad new directives to immigration officers Thursday, 9/30, saying that someone is an undocumented immigrant “should not alone be the basis” of a decision to detain and deport them from the United States…
The DHS said on Wednesday, 9/29, that it planned to issue a new memorandum in the coming weeks terminating the “Remain in Mexico” policy, which requires many asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while they await hearings on their requests for safe haven in the U.S…
On 9/20, the White House announced that in early November it intends to end the COVID-19 travel bans imposed in 2020 and replace them with vaccination and COVID-19 testing requirements for almost all travelers…
On 9/17, the White House published a new brief on “The Economic Benefits of Extending Permanent Legal Status to Unauthorized Immigrants”…
Congress
The Senate parliamentarian has nixed Democrats' back-up plan for getting immigration reform into a sweeping spending bill, handing them a second setback…
Last Monday, 9/26, the Biden administration released its proposed measure to preserve and fortify an Obama-era program that protects “dreamers'' from deportation after a federal judge declared the original initiative illegal…
Haitian Refugees
The sudden appearance of thousands of Haitian migrants overwhelmed Border Patrol agents in Del Rio in mid-September…
ICE has deported about 2,000 migrants on chartered flights to Haiti as the administration tries to deter more people from rushing to the border…
Images of the agents on horseback rounding up migrants and of dozens of state police vehicles blocking entrance across the river have fueled criticism from Democratic lawmakers and administration officials that the Haitians are being treated inhumanely…
Earlier this month, President Biden forcibly condemned the “horrible” treatment of Haitian migrants assembled along the U.S-Mexico border, pledging consequences for the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents who were photographed on horseback…