By Chris Tobias | Editorial Credit: shutterstock.com In a significant legal development, the Supreme Court temporarily halted President Biden’s latest effort to forgive tens, and possibly hundreds, of billions of dollars in student debt. This move has sparked widespread debate, as it follows the Court’s rejection of a more extensive plan last year that aimed […]
By Emma Winger | Editorial Credit: Lev Radin/ shutterstock.com A group of Republican-led states, headed by Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, have sued to block a new rule that allows Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients to access health insurance through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). It is yet another legal assault on Dreamers, […]
By American Immigration Council Staff | Editorial Credit: Roy De La Cruz / Shutterstock.com Updated: August 22, 2024 This is an update to our blog first posted on June 18, 2024, when President Biden first announced two policies to help provide streamlined paths to legal status for certain undocumented immigrants. On August 19, 2024, details […]
By Deirdre Schifeling and Lee Gelernt | ACLU WASHINGTON — The White House released today a fact sheet announcing details on an impending executive action from the Biden administration that will severely restrict people’s legal right to seek asylum. Among the measures announced, the administration will effectively shut off asylum for the overwhelming majority of people arriving […]
New York, NY—Today, the Biden administration announced it will be extending and re-designating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans who arrived in the United States before July 31, 2023. Temporary Protected Status is a temporary immigration status granted by the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to individuals who are unable to return home safely due […]
Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings and David Torres from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: For years the issue of immigration reform has become nothing more than lip service in State of the Union speeches. Tuesday night […]
Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, 12-06-2021 100 migrants were returned to Mexico under title 42 health measure due to the pandemic that is currently being experienced in the world. (Shutterstock) By Rebekah Wolf, Immigration Impact The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on Friday that it will be terminating the Title 42 border policy. The U.S. […]
Migrants from Guatemala turn themselves over to a Border Patrol agent after crossing the border wall between the United States and Mexico on May 12, 2021 in Yuma, Arizona. (Shutterstock) By America’s Voice The administration of President Joe Biden is facing a moral dilemma, and also a political one, when it comes to demands to […]
By Walter Ewing The Biden administration failed to issue more than 200,000 permanent resident visas (or “green cards”) that were allotted in fiscal year 2021 for immigrants sponsored by U.S. employers or family members. Roughly 150,000 visas for family-based immigrants and as many as 80,000 visas for employment-based immigrants had gone unused by September 30, […]
By Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact President Biden revoked a proclamation issued by former President Trump in 2019 that required nearly all prospective immigrants to demonstrate that they would be covered by private health insurance or were wealthy enough not to need it. Those needing health insurance would have to be covered within 30 days of […]