California
On Tuesday, 7/27, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill related to the state budget that would push California further out front in erasing the lines delineating the safety net programs that people who are here illegally qualify for…
The governments of California and Mexico signed an agreement in late June committing to work together to deliver on time a new border crossing at Otay Mesa by late 2024…
DACA
On 7/16, a federal judge in Texas blocked the Biden administration from approving new applications for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program - but current DACA recipients will remain unaffected for now…
President Joe Biden said the U.S. will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that the DACA program was implemented unconstitutionally, and he renewed his call for Congress to agree on a permanent solution…
President Biden says his recent meeting with lawmakers about DACA went very well and urged lawmakers to include immigration measures in the Democrats’ broad budget reconciliation measure…
The Courts
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on 8/2 said it will resume its lawsuit against the Biden administration to force an end to the use of Title 42 to expel migrant families arriving at the border…
President and Administration
The Biden administration on Friday, 7/30, resumed fast-track deportation flights to Central America following another spike in families crossing the border into the Rio Grande Valley of Texas…
The White House is moving forward on a plan to have DHS asylum officers take over cases on the southern U.S. border, a change that would shift future asylum cases out of backlogged immigration courts…
Last week, the Biden administration released its long-awaited strategy on addressing the root causes of migration from Central America as it continues to struggle with record high numbers of apprehensions at the U.S. southern border…
Last week, the Senate confirmed immigration attorney Ur Jaddou to be director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on a party-line vote, 47-34…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will no longer detain most pregnant, nursing and postpartum women for deportation, reversing a Trump-era rule…
Border Patrol has held newborn U.S. citizens in custody unnecessarily - sometimes for multiple nights - according to a government report released Friday, 7/30…
The Biden administration sued Texas on Friday, 7/30, a day after Attorney General Merrick Garland warned Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that his order banning the transportation of migrants within the state by anyone other than law enforcement impinges on the federal government’s exclusive control over immigration matters…
The State Department says thousands more Afghans will be able to relocate to the U.S. as refugees because of the growing threat of Taliban violence…
Congress
On Thursday, 7/29, more than 90 chief executive officers, including those at Apple, Amazon, and Facebook urged Congress to pass a law offering a citizenship path to young immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children…