Photo screengrab via President Joe Biden Twitter Rebecca Morin, Rafael Carranza | USA TODAY The United States will begin allowing in migrants who sought asylum under the Trump administration but were forced to sit in Mexico as they awaited a hearing before a judge, the Biden administration announced Friday. It was the latest step by President Joe Biden to roll …
By Daniel Gonzalez, Rafael Carranza| Arizona Republic President Joe Biden has wasted no time making changes to the nation’s immigration and border policies, many of them a 180-degree reversal of former President Donald Trump’s restrictive policies. On Feb. 2, Biden signed three executive orders. The first creates a task force to help reunite the remaining parents the Trump administration forcibly …
By Cindy Carmaco, Andrea Castillo, Molly O’Toole | Los Angeles Times During his first days in office, President-elect Joe Biden plans to send a groundbreaking legislative package to Congress to address the long-elusive goal of immigration reform, including what’s certain to be a controversial centerpiece: a pathway to citizenship for an estimated 11 million immigrants who are in the country without …
By Jen Fifield, Alison Steinbach | Arizona Republic Immigrants without permanent legal status in the U.S. are eligible for the housing and utility assistance programs Phoenix created for those hurt by COVID-19, a federal court ruled Wednesday. The judgeruled that Phoenix is not allowed to exclude “unqualified aliens” such as undocumented immigrants from its federally funded COVID-19 relief programs by requiring applicants to show proof …
By Cronkite News | Via AZBigMedia The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it is making “drastic cuts” that will affect all agency services, including naturalizations, in order to avoid furloughs of nearly 70% of its workforce at the end of this month. Immigration advocates worried Wednesday that the cuts would add to an already large backlog of cases and …
By James Verini | New York Times The United States border patrol agent found the body, a man’s, on the southern slope of a hill about three miles outside Sells, Ariz., known to locals with long memories as Bird Nest Hill. The man was face down, his head near a rocky outcropping, his legs stretching downhill. He lay with his …
By Darius Amiri| Rose Law Group Reporter In this analysis, we are discussing the recently announced proposed fee increases to many immigration applications proposed by the USCIS. USCIS is the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, they’re a division of the Department of Homeland Security. They are the agency that’s in charge of handling immigration applications here in the United …
The rule has been used to block entry into the U.S. of anyone likely to pose a financial burden. This week a judge did a bit of blocking of his own, with two injunctions preventing the rule’s implementation. Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri explains what this means for the immigrant community.
There have been important developments concerning DACA since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the program in June. Rose Law Group Immigration Chair Darius Amiri gets us up to speed.
Mica Rosenberg, Kristina Cooke, Reade Levinson | Reuters NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Public health specialists have for months warned the U.S. government that shuffling detainees among immigration detention centers will expose people to COVID-19 and help spread the disease. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has continued the practice, saying it is taking all necessary precautions. It turns out the health …