California
The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office transferred eight people to federal immigration agents last year for deportation or some other kind of immigration enforcement, according to information presented at a county Board of Supervisors meeting recently…
A San Francisco immigration judge took less than an hour to order 23 people deported…
Tenants living in the most precarious conditions - immigrants who speak limited English, don’t have a traditional lease or face digital barriers - are not applying for rental assistance at the same rate as their estimated need, advocates say…
First came the hunger strikes, lawsuits and protests, followed by damning government inspection reports, all decrying conditions inside facilities that detain immigrants in California…
Encounters at sea are still substantially lower than those on land, but experts say the shift to maritime crossings - in response to restrictive border policies and the devastation from COVID-19 across the hemisphere - is amplifying the danger migrants face trying to reach the United States…
Education
RAND Corp. researchers estimate 321,000 undocumented and asylum-seeking children enrolled in the nation’s public schools between late 2016 and 2019, just ahead of the more recent and dramatic uptick in newcomers from Central America, Mexico, Afghanistan and Haiti…
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a blog discussing how to confront discrimination based on national origin and immigration status…
President and Administration
In early July, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) drafted a comprehensive nine-page plan to stop using “Title 42,” a Trump-era pandemic policy, to rapidly expel migrant families with children…
Last week, President Biden dismissed the idea that immigrant families separated at the southern border under his predecessor’s zero-tolerance policy could receive payments of $450,000 per person in monetary settlements, calling the report “garbage”…
In a hearing, the U.S. was questioned closely on whether it improperly ended the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” asylum program…
U.S. authorities detained more than 1.7 million migrants along the Mexico border during the 2021 fiscal year that ended in September, and arrests by the Border Patrol soared to the highest levels recorded…
Immigration arrests in the interior of the United States fell in fiscal 2021 to the lowest level in more than a decade - roughly half the annual totals recorded during the Trump administration, according to ICE data…
In late October, DHS Secretary Mayorkas expanded the list of “sensitive locations” where immigration officers cannot make arrests…
Congress
The current text of Democrats’ $1.75 Build Back Better reconciliation bill includes a provision that would expand eligibility for federal student aid - including Pell Grants, federal loans, and Federal Work-Study programs - to students with Temporary Protected Status or who are recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)…
Protections for undocumented immigrants and provisions to salvage unused green cards going back decades are included in the Democrats’ sweeping social spending and tax package…
Chris Magnus, the president’s pick to lead U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), appeared before the Senate Finance Committee in October, where he faced aggressive questioning from Republicans concerned about how the administration is managing increased border crossings 2019, and Magnus - who’s currently police chief in Tucson, Arizona - is likely to face a tight confirmation battle, with critics pushing Congress to oppose the nomination…