California
A just-published report by Nourish California and California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC), which used statewide survey data collected from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research from 2017 to 2020, found that 45 percent of undocumented immigrants in California are affected by food insecurity…
The Judicial System
Last week, the Supreme Court grappled with whether the Biden administration can terminate a Trump-era border policy known as "Remain in Mexico" in a case that will test the White House's ability to set immigration policy…
Administration Spending Priorities
President Biden’s annual budget proposal would substantially increase funds for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) while further taking the agency away from the enforcement-heavy policies imbued into it by the Trump administration…
Work Permits
Most immigrants with recently expired or soon-to-expire work permits will be able to continue working on those documents for up to a year and a half after they expire under a new policy announced by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services earlier this week…
Refugees and those granted asylum may now renew their work permits in two-year increments rather than having to renew annually in an effort to address lengthy processing delays…
Migration Trends
The U.S. immigration system would come under intense pressure if the end of Title 42, a fast-track deportation policy, triggers a surge of as many as 18,000 migrants at the southern border, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said earlier this week…
Overall, 2021 will go down as the year with the slowest population growth in U.S. history…
One in 10 Black people living in the U.S. are immigrants, and the number is only expected to rise, according to new data…
Migrants attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border at the highest level in two decades…
Asylum
The Biden administration announced the final version of its long-awaited U.S. asylum overhaul in late March, aiming to speed up processing at the border and alleviate backlogs throughout the country’s immigration courts…
The administration is overhauling asylum procedures for migrants crossing the U.S. border, its most significant step toward fulfilling President Biden’s pledge to make immigration more efficient and humane…
Border Wall
Since 2019, when the border wall’s height was raised to 30 feet along much of the border in California, the number of patients arriving at the UC San Diego Medical Center’s trauma ward after falling off the structure has jumped fivefold, to 375, new statistics published Friday, 4/29, by UC San Diego physicians…
Mexican smuggling gangs have sawed through new segments of border wall 3,272 times over the past three years, according to unpublished U.S. Customs and Border Protection maintenance records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act…
Resuming work on a wall along the southern U.S. border and codifying the Remain in Mexico program for asylum seekers are among Republicans’ top priorities if they win control of the House…
Immigration Reform
The prospects of comprehensive immigration reform this year? “Zero,” said Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), a lead sponsor of President Biden’s signature immigration bill…
Refugees
President Biden has asked Congress to provide tens of thousands of Afghan refugees with a pathway to become legal permanent residents of the U.S., according to a proposal included in the supplemental budget request he sent to lawmakers last week…
CBP officials are now processing Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion of their country at the San Diego-Tijuana border through a pedestrian crossing which has been closed to the general public for the past two years…
Afghan refugees in the United States will be allowed to stay for at least 18 months under temporary protected status, a move that will help some of the thousands who arrived following the chaotic American withdrawal from their country…