California
California would allow all income-eligible residents to qualify for the state’s healthcare program for low-income people regardless of immigration status under Gov. Newsom’s recent budget proposal…
New demographic data shows California’s population falling for the first time on record - underscoring shifting immigration patterns, declining birth rates and the large number of deaths at the hands of the pandemic…
The Judicial System
Earlier this month, Biden administration lawyers urged the Supreme Court to deny bond hearings and a chance to go free to immigrants who are being held for deportation after returning illegally to the U.S…
Last week, the Biden administration vigorously defended a Trump-era emergency order that U.S. border authorities have used to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants without screening them for asylum, arguing the unprecedented policy is still needed to control the spread of COVID-19…
President and Administration
A newly disclosed memorandum citing “unprecedented” meddling by the Trump administration in the 2020 census and circulated among top Census Bureau officials indicates how strongly career Census Bureau employees sought to resist efforts by the administration to manipulate the count for Republican political gain…
In mid-December, the Biden administration withdrew from negotiations to offer financial compensation to thousands of migrant families for the harm inflicted on them by a Trump-era policy that separated parents and children at the border…
Apprehensions at the southwest border rose in November for the first time since July…
In early January the Biden administration again submitted Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez for consideration to lead the key immigration enforcement role within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)…
President Biden promised during his campaign to “end for-profit” detention, but he did not include ICE in his January 2021 executive order eliminating the use of private prisons…
Federal agents from Homeland Security Investigations say they have been kicked out of joint drug operations, shunned by local police departments and heckled at campus career fairs…
In early December, the Biden administration reached a deal with the Mexican government to restart the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” program that requires asylum seekers to wait outside U.S. territory while their claims are processed…
Congress
Zoe Lofgren, a San Jose Democrat, chairs the immigration subcommittee of the House judiciary panel and is a longtime leader on immigration policy in Washington…
The Senate in December approved President Biden’s choice to run Customs and Border Protection in a 50-47 vote, filling a key post that has oversight of one of the president’s earliest and biggest challenges: handling the historic spike in illegal crossings at the nation’s southern border…
Afghan Refugees
The Continuing Resolution signed into law by President Biden in December includes $7 billion for the resettlement of Afghan evacuees, an amount some Republicans sharply criticize…
Haitian Migrants
The DHS’s civil rights office raised an internal warning to immigration and border officials that deporting Haitians to their volatile home country risked violating U.S. civil and human rights obligations and advised them against the practice in late August…