On Monday, the government legally had to begin accepting new DACA applications, but advocates, legal experts, and Senate Democrats worry that they are slow-walking processing of new applicants.
Immigration
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Public Comment Battle to Save American Asylum
A new rule would greatly restrict asylum. Advocates are fighting back with public comments.
Posted inEducation in America
A Win for the Administrative Procedure Act
The government agreed to rescind its latest rules governing international student visas that would have banned students taking online classes from staying in the U.S.
Posted inEducation in America
Trump’s War on International Students
New ICE guidelines for international student visas may signal an administration desperate to shut out as many immigrants as possible before the clock runs out.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Trump’s War on Asylum Seekers Struck Down by a Trump-Appointed Judge
Yet again, a conservative judge ruled that nativist zeal absent proper legal procedure didn’t make for a compelling case.
Posted inWorking in America
Trump’s Immigration Order: Fast Track to an Abusive Past
The president limits U.S. entry to farmworkers with no rights—a boon to both Big Ag and nativists.
Posted inCoronavirus
Mutual Aid, for and by Undocumented Immigrants
Immigrant advocacy groups are creating mutual aid funds to support the undocumented community, who are otherwise locked out of federal benefit programs.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Revolt of the Judges
The Trump administration has ordered immigration court judges to reject more applicants and speed up trials—and it wants to bust the judges’ union.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Supreme Court Saves DACA, for Now
Chief Justice Roberts joins the Court’s liberals in ruling that the government failed to follow legal procedures in terminating the program protecting Dreamers from deportation.
