Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has dropped the practice of coordinating plans for immigrant families seeking asylum in Arizona following release from detention but still waiting for a court decision on their fate. Until Sunday, the agency conducted reviews, including the confirmation of bus routes, communication with members of families, coordinating with NGOs, and ensuring […]

The Supreme Court took up a new immigration dispute on Wednesday as it contemplates the circumstances in which people awaiting deportation from the US can be detained by the federal government once they have finished sentences received for criminal convictions. The nine justices were to hear an hour of arguments as part of an appeal

According to Breitbart News, House Majority Leader, Kevin McCarthy, will introduce a bill this week to fund the wall on the border between the US and Mexico, which has long been a promise of President Donald Trump. The bill would set up the midterm elections next month as a kind of referendum on the Trump

Four months after US Immigration officials detained Ecuador immigrant, Pablo Villavicencio, as he delivered pizza to the military base Fort Hamilton and failed to produce identification, the deportation case against him has been dismissed at the federal level. The Legal Aid Society now intends to help Villavicencio, who was held in detention for 53 days,

A brother and sister in Waterloo have been charged with organizing a sham marriage to prevent immigration officials from deporting the former from the US. Last week, a grand jury indictment was filed alleging that 27-year-old Selmir Salkanovic, a citizen of Bosnia, overstayed his tourist visa last year and that he and his sister, Selena

Border Patrol released hundreds of immigrant families over the weekend. According to officials, many were apprehended along the Arizona/Mexico border in large groups, with over 100 people, mainly immigrants from Guatemala dropped off at a Tucson church. The release of almost 700 immigrants, primarily parents with children or pregnant women, seems to be part of

Dennis Herrera, San Francisco’s City Attorney, says that the city has won a legal victory against the US government in the fight over an immigration law, which was used to deny San Francisco receiving a federal grant by the White House. Judge William Orrick from the US Court for the Northern District of California ruled

Immigrant detainees who cannot afford the cost of their bond may soon be able to receive financial help from a new fund established by a coalition of local organizations in San Diego. The San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium (SDIRC) has organized the Borderlands Get Free Bond Fund and is now accepting applications from immigrants who

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is considering changing the eligibility for lower-income immigrants for fee waivers on applications for US citizenship and legal permanent residency, a move that has been slammed by immigration advocates. USCIS announced the change in the Federal Register on Friday. The proposal states that the receipt of means-tested public benefit

US Immigration Fund has announced that the first approvals have been given for I-526 petitions from EB-5 U.S. visa investors who invested in Halletts Point, Astoria, in the New York borough of Queens. The EB-5 investor has to file the I-526 petition to show that they have already invested, or are investing, the necessary capital

Over 754,700 immigrants have been given U.S. citizenship in the second year of Donald Trump’s Presidency, the highest number since 2013, according to a US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) spokesman on Wednesday. The figures are a reversal of the slump in citizenship numbers that occurred during the 2017 fiscal year. Michael Bars, the spokesman