Tagged: Immigration Reform
Earlier this month, a three-judge panel in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that immigration courts must distinguish between sexual orientation and gender identity in immigrants seeking asylum or relief from deportation....
Students across the country are headed back to their classrooms. Many will bring with them stories of how they spent their summer vacation. Dozens, most of them children of undocumented immigrants, will have had...
Millions of undocumented immigrants whose children are either US citizens or legal residents continue to wait for the resolution of a court case brought by Texas and 25 other states against President Barack Obama’s...
An estimated five million unauthorized immigrants in the US who qualify for an expanded deferred action program announced last November by President Barack Obama are living in a legal limbo as a challenge to...
Asylum-seeking mothers held in detention with their children at a for-profit facility in South Texas have initiated a second protest fast and work stoppage calling for their release. The women have all passed what...
Congressional gridlock over the border crisis and immigration reform is leading up to a showdown between the legislative and executive branches. Last week the Senate failed to pass their $2.7 billion version of an...
A commentary from Mumia Abu Jamal on the reaction within the United States to the mass migration of unaccompanied Central American minors. download As an ineffectual Congress gives voice to howling throngs decrying the...
Advocates for immigration reform continue to call for presidential action to halt deportations. Undocumented mothers from around the country came to Washington DC ahead of Mothers’ Day to ask for the expansion of deferred...
Undocumented families and their allies have been holding a vigil and hunger strike outside the White House for most of April, to put pressure on President Obama to sign an executive order putting a...
The U.S. Department of Justice released new statistics Wednesday which indicates a 5-year decline in court-ordered deportations from the U.S. interior. The report, however, is limited – covering only the immigration cases that fall...