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Challenging CBP One Turnback Policy

Challenging CBP One Turnback Policy

This lawsuit challenges the federal government’s border-wide policy and practice of turning back asylum seekers without a CBP One appointment at ports of entry. Read More

Class Action Lawsuit Challenging USCIS Delay in Deciding Applications for Provisional Unlawful Presence Waivers

Class Action Lawsuit Challenging USCIS Delay in Deciding Applications for Provisional Unlawful Presence Waivers

This Lawsuit seeks an end to processing delays that prevent immigrants from becoming lawful permanent residents. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has already approved these immigrant petitions filed by their U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident family member. Read More

A Guide to Obtaining Detention Records

A Guide to Obtaining Detention Records

Our comprehensive guide on obtaining detention records provides a brief overview of FOIA requirements, information about the types of records government agencies possess, tips about how to request those records, and an overview of what to expect after submitting the request. Read More

State and Local Policy Associate

State and Local Policy Associate

New American Economy (NAE) is seeking a State and Local Policy Associate to assist in project management, writing, research, and communications. The State and Local Policy Associate will work on multiple projects, primarily with NAE’s State and Local Initiatives team, but also with the Research, Arts and Culture, and Communications… Read More

Council Sues Immigration Agencies for Records of Enforcement Databases

Council Sues Immigration Agencies for Records of Enforcement Databases

This Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeks to uncover information about the databases and systems that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agencies use in immigration enforcement. Read More

Stopping Government Interference to Attorney Phone Access in Immigration Detention Centers

Stopping Government Interference to Attorney Phone Access in Immigration Detention Centers

This lawsuit was filed to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement from denying detainees the ability to contact their lawyers and the outside world by phone. Read More

Twelve Local Communities Awarded Research to Support Immigrant-inclusive COVID-19 Relief Measures.

Twelve Local Communities Awarded Research to Support Immigrant-inclusive COVID-19 Relief Measures.

New American Economy announces research support to local communities committed to including immigrants in emergency responses.  NEW YORK, NY – Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic local leaders in communities across the country have been working tirelessly to ensure that all community members — and particularly the most vulnerable… Read More

Immigrant restaurateur gives back to the community through Lebanese cuisine

Immigrant restaurateur gives back to the community through Lebanese cuisine

Gus Sleiman’s family left their homeland in 1989 to escape the Lebanese Civil War, a 15-year conflict that killed an estimated 150,000 people and displaced another 900,000 — about one-fifth of the population. Sleiman was 16. The family moved to Michigan then New York and, while visiting a church in… Read More

Looking for America: El Paso

Looking for America: El Paso

Media are invited to preview, attend, and cover Looking for America: El Paso, a chapter in a new dialogue and art initiative that is touring six communities across the United States.  At a time when Americans are more polarized than ever, especially on the issue of immigration, national and local… Read More

New data shows the number of immigrant entrepreneurs in the Washington, D.C. metro area grew by more than 11 percent in one year

New data shows the number of immigrant entrepreneurs in the Washington, D.C. metro area grew by more than 11 percent in one year

New York – Today New American Economy (NAE), a bipartisan research and advocacy organization focused on immigration, released new data highlighting the significant contributions immigrants make to the Washington, D.C. metro area’s community and economy. The data shows that immigrants in Washington, D.C. are driving economic growth… Read More

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