Immigration advocates are petitioning the Supreme Court in New Mexico in a bid to have them enact new rules to make it more difficult for people suspected of living illegally in the US from being detained at state courthouses by federal authorities. On Wednesday (August 29, 2018), a group of advocates gathered outside the Metropolitan […]

The majority of Americans do not want to see the abolishment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), regardless of calls to dismantle the agency by certain members of the Democratic Party, according to the results of a new poll, released on Monday. The poll from the University of Chicago’s NORC and the Associated Press saw

Washington University’s School of Law in St Louis has opened a new immigration clinic that aims to help students to deal with matters about immigration that impact people on a low-to-moderate level of income. The clinic director and assistant professor of practice, Katie Meyer, says the Immigration Law Clinic hopes to offer upper-level law students

Immigrant advocacy groups and the federal government have both signaled their opposition to the practice of the quick release of reunited immigrant parents and children and then fitting them with electronic monitoring devices, albeit for different reasons. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have issued thousands of ankle monitors, referred to as grilletes by immigrants, which

The National Partnership for New Americans, a coalition of refugee and immigration groups, has released several reports about the number of naturalization applications pending under President Donald Trump. The national backlog increased from 388,832 at the start of the 2016 fiscal year when Barack Obama was the US President, to 729,400 at the start of

The Department of Justice intends to appeal the injunction laid down by a federal judge that barred immigrant families from being separated after illegally entering the US. Notice of appeal was filed with the US Circuit Court of Appeals by the administration on Friday, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. Although the government intends to

Leading Washington-based Immigration and Business Advisory law firm, Hayman-Woodward PLC, recently staged several personalized sessions and informative lectures about foreign investment and immigration for potential clients located in Brazil. The events were staged during 21 and 22 August, in two cities, Brasilia and Goiania, and saw the firm provide expertise on different US visa programs

The owner of a slaughterhouse in Grainger County is facing over $40,000 in fines after forcing undocumented immigrants to do their jobs in unsafe and dirty working conditions. Last week, James Brantley agreed to plead guilty on federal charges of hiring undocumented immigrants, and tax evasion. The deal comes four months after the April raid

In San Francisco on Thursday, California Attorney General, Xavier Becerra in US District Court, sued the Justice Department and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, challenging the conditions on immigration enforcement that have been put on federal law enforcement assistance grants. Around $28.9 million in grants from the Justice Department from a program called Justice Assistance Grants

A federal lawsuit, challenging the policy of targeting immigrants attempting to gain legal status in the US after marrying Americans for deportation is to move forward, despite attempts by the Trump administration to have the case dismissed. On Thursday, Judge Mark Wolf dismissed the bid by the federal government to have the American Civil Liberties

Several major business leaders in the US have joined forces to express their concern over the immigration policies currently pursued by the Trump administration. The Business Round Table’s CEO members, which include the likes of Tim Cook, Jamie Dimon, Indra Nooyi, and Ginni Rometty, sent a letter on Thursday to Kirstjen Nielsen, the Secretary of