Biden Administration
President Joe Biden is working to address the logistical maze of processing over 25,000 migrants stuck waiting in Mexico under the Migrant Protection Protocols (M.P.P.) one of former President Donald Trump’s most consequential border policies…
Despite the massive immigration package Biden introduced his first day as president and the flurry of executive orders that followed, the president’s policies have yet to catch up with his rhetoric…
President Biden reopened the country last month to people seeking green cards, ending a ban on legal immigration that Trump imposed last April, citing what he said was the need to protect American jobs during the pandemic…
Prior to Trump taking office, nearly 500,000 new foreign students came into the U.S. in one year, pumping billions of dollars into small and large schools across the country…
The Biden administration’s task force to reunite families separated at the border under Trump will allow those families to reunite and settle in the U.S., DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said earlier this month…
In an attempt to prevent the detention of migrant families for weeks or months at a time, the Biden administration plans to release parents and children within 72 hours of their arrival in the U.S…
Emergency facilities - a vestige of the Trump administration - are being reactivated to cope with soaring numbers of migrant families and children crossing into the U.S…
In early March, Biden sought help from Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in preventing another cycle of out-of-control migration from Central America, but without resorting to the full range of policies Trump embraced…
The Courts
A Trump-era rule denying immigrants who use public benefits like food stamps green cards was dealt likely fatal blows last week after Biden dropped legal challenges, including before the Supreme Court…
Biden’s administration asked the Supreme Court to dismiss three pending appeals stemming from his predecessor’s efforts to block federal grants to cities and states that don’t cooperate with federal immigration enforcement…
A federal district court in California granted a preliminary injunction preventing the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) from implementing a late Trump-era rule plaintiffs claim interferes with refugees’ and non-citizens’ ability to pursue relief from deportation…
Two civil rights organizations filed a federal class action lawsuit against ICE to get the agency to halt use of private companies to detain people…
U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton has indefinitely banned the administration from enforcing a 100-day moratorium on most deportations…
Congress
The House passed The Dream and Promise Act yesterday, 3/18, which would provide a pathway to citizenship for some young undocumented people living in the United States…
The issue of what to do with Biden’s comprehensive immigration plan has bedeviled Pelosi and her leadership team, particularly after a disappointing whip count showing they don’t have the votes to pass the bill on the floor…
Senate Republicans accused President Biden of breaking federal budget law when he ordered a halt to construction of a southern border wall and say the action contributed to a surge in illegal border crossings…
Increases in visas for highly skilled foreign workers could be stymied if Democrats decide to overhaul immigration through a series of small bills instead of the sweeping one put forward by Biden…
While many Americans are receiving another relief check from the government, undocumented workers will once again be left out, even as they work on the front lines of the pandemic…
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) warned the Biden administration against easing up on unauthorized immigrants, citing their impact on his constituents, local hospitals, and their potential to spread COVID-19…
Last week, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AK) spoke at the Republican Study Committee’s lunch and said that the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border will be key in Republicans regaining the House majority…
On Monday, 3/15, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said border agents he met earlier that day issued dire warnings that suspected terrorists are trying to cross into the U.S. via Mexico…