Immigration Update 10/13/22

On October 5, a federal appeals court ruled against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program…

The 10/5 ruling ratchets up pressure for Congress to pass legislation providing “Dreamers” more stable legal status…

A proposal to offer status to Afghan evacuees may hitch a ride on the omnibus spending bill or the defense package…

Yesterday, 10/12, the Biden administration announced it would accept up to 24,000 Venezuelans via a humanitarian parole plan, although the scope of the program was far narrower than a similar one for Ukrainians…

The DHS plans to issue more than the maximum 64,000 additional H-2B temporary work visas on top of the normal annual allocation in the current fiscal year…

The U.S. received approximately 25,400 refugees under the Refugee Admissions Program, which resettles the most vulnerable immigrants displaced by war and violence across the globe…

For the first time, the number of arrests of undocumented immigrants along the southwestern border exceeded two million in one year…

In early September, the Department of Homeland Security finalized a regulation rolling back a policy instituted under former President Trump that sought to limit immigration benefits for those likely to rely on government aid…

There are among an estimated 200,000 children of immigrants on work visas who don’t have a clear legal path to stay in the U.S. once they turn 21…

In mid-July, after a Texas district judge said the guidance to deportation officers violated federal laws, the Supreme Court refused to reinstate the Biden administration’s policy limiting immigration arrests…

In late June, the Supreme Court ruled on behalf of the Biden administration, reversing a Trump-era initiative that requires asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while their cases are reviewed in U.S. courts…