Immigrant Detention Apprehension Tips

Immigrant Detention Apprehension Tips

Editorial credit: Matt Gush / shutterstock.com The Immigrant Detention Apprehension Tips document, published by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), offers strategic guidance for noncitizens and their legal representatives in the face of heightened immigration enforcement. With the backdrop of aggressive immigration policies, particularly under the Trump administration, the document provides practical steps for immigrants […]

A Young U.S. Citizen’s Long Legal Road Back Home

A Young U.S. Citizen’s Long Legal Road Back Home

By Pablo Balcazar, IMMIGRATION IMPACT  The American Immigration Council does not endorse or oppose candidates for elected office. We aim to provide analysis regarding the implications of the election on the U.S. immigration system. Across the country, deportation is often discussed as an absolute end. Many politicians run on a platform of stoking fear on […]

ICE Makes Sweeping Arrests in Chicago, Endangering City’s Livelihood

ICE Makes Sweeping Arrests in Chicago, Endangering City’s Livelihood

By American Immigration Council Staff, Immmigration Impact | Editorial credit: Johnny Silvercloud / shutterstock.com The American Immigration Council does not endorse or oppose candidates for elected office. We aim to provide analysis regarding the implications of the election on the U.S. immigration system. Chicago has been bracing for immigration raids since the presidential inauguration, following […]

Breaking Down the Latest Court Decision Impacting DACA

Breaking Down the Latest Court Decision Impacting DACA

By Michelle Lapointe, IMMIGRATION IMPACT The American Immigration Council does not endorse or oppose candidates for elected office. We aim to provide analysis regarding the implications of the election on the U.S. immigration system. Nearly 13 years since the Obama administration first created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative, more than 500,000 people […]

Dramatic Immigration Arrests Rattle Bronx and Upper Manhattan

Dramatic Immigration Arrests Rattle Bronx and Upper Manhattan

By Gwynne Hogan, Katie Honan and Claudia Irizarry Aponte, THE CITY  Click here to know your rights Federal immigration officials launched their first high-profile raids in New York City under President Donald Trump, trumpeting their actions in a 7 a.m. video in which Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who personally oversaw the enforcement actions, proclaimed that agents were “getting the […]

Biden’s Pardons of Ravi Ragbir and Marcus Garvey Draw Praise from Caribbean Leaders

Biden’s Pardons of Ravi Ragbir and Marcus Garvey Draw Praise from Caribbean Leaders

By Ralph Thomassaint Joseph, DOCUMENTED President Biden’s historic pardon of Ragbir, a Trinidadian immigration activist, and Garvey, the renowned Jamaican Pan-Africanist, have sparked widespread celebration. In one of his final acts in office, former President Joe Biden pardoned Ravi Ragbir, a New York-based immigrant rights leader and Trinidadian immigrant who had been under a removal order for […]

CUNY Braces Undocumented Students for Second Trump Era

CUNY Braces Undocumented Students for Second Trump Era

By Jonathan Custodio, THE CITY | Editorial credit: yuriyt / shutterstock.com  The school is being careful in what it’s saying before the incoming president, who has promised mass deportations, begins his second term on Monday.  The CITY partners with Open Campus on coverage of the City University of New York. The City University of New York, which […]

Ruling Blocks ACA Health Insurance for ‘Dreamers’

Ruling Blocks ACA Health Insurance for ‘Dreamers’

Editorial credit: Susan Montgomery / shutterstock.com    A federal judge in North Dakota has temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s effort to allow DACA recipients—immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children—to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace. The ruling affects “Dreamers” in 19 states where Republican attorneys general filed a […]