By Eshani Pandya, Immigration Impact The backbone of a functioning justice system is due process. Yet over 1.25 million immigrants are fighting for their right to survive in an immigration court system that is anything but fair. For years, immigration advocates have been calling on the government to fix the dysfunction in the immigration court […]
Agricultural seasonal immigrant (migrant) field (farm) workers harvest and package (box) Romaine lettuce in the fields of Salinas Valley of central California. – Salinas, California – USA – July 1, 2015 (Shutterstock) By AV Press Releases, America’s Voice This week brings more evidence that the treatment of “essential workers” during the Trump era has been […]
By Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact The development of a COVID-19 vaccine is a global endeavor. The scientists and entrepreneurs creating the vaccine are of many nationalities and immigration statuses—as are the millions of people impacted by the pandemic who are anxiously awaiting a vaccine. The three pharmaceutical companies with vaccines near-ready for distribution—BioNTech, Pfizer, and […]
New York, NY-Today, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Health and Human Services (HHS) agency announced that the Federal COVID-19 vaccine program would no longer mandate participating states to acquire and share personal information, such as drivers licenses or social security numbers, of residents who receive the vaccine. The news comes after the […]
Sign for privately owned Core Civic Detention Center in Otay Mesa, where San Diego County’s illegal immigrants are held as they go through the legal process. San Diego, CA / USA – November 3, 2019 (Shutterstock) By Nomaan Merchant, AOL HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. government has agreed temporarily not to deport detained immigrant women […]
“City: Santiago de Chile Country: Chile 13th May 2017 Black Haitian immigrants in Plaza de Armas, Chile” (Shutterstock) By Karolina Walters, Immigration Impact For years, the Trump administration has argued that limited capacity at ports of entry led to its policy of turning back asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border (the “turnback policy”). But a […]
Former Vice President and presidential candidate, Joe Biden, held a rally at Sparks High School ahead of the Nevada Democratic Caucuses. – Sparks, Nevada / USA – January 10 2020 (Shutterstock) By Melissa Cruz, Immigration Impact President-elect Joe Biden’s plan on immigration stands in stark contrast to the xenophobic agenda the Trump administration has put […]
Trump’s single term has represented a reign of terror for many immigrants. He has done an enormous amount of damage and has really suppressed legal immigration in this country to a degree that we’ve never seen before. By 2021, Trump will have reduced legal immigration up to 50%. There is hope now for all immigrants. […]
Joe Biden as Vice President of the United States during a speech-message to the Ukrainian Parliament. Kyiv, Ukraine, December 08, 2015. (Shutterstock) By Stuart Anderson, Forbes Joe Biden is the next president of the United States. Unless Democrats win two runoff elections in Georgia, Biden may not have a Democratic majority in the Senate, making ambitious […]
By Laura Caron and Erwin R. Tiongson, The Conversation Banks and aid agencies have been warning of a pandemic-related plunge in the amount of money sent by migrants to family back home who rely on the income. In a typical year, more than 270 million migrants living and working abroad send these cash transfers, known as remittances, to their home countries. […]