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Weekend Reading: Highlights from this week’s immigration news (March 7 – March 11)
This week, Democratic and Republican debates took place in Florida, a state where immigrants play a critical role in the local economy. In this CNN piece, Ione Molinares profiles multiple Hispanic leaders in Central Florida, including Karina Oyola, who owns a tax preparation business based in Plaza del Sol. America’s top universities are a magnet […]
Read MoreRichard Estrada Wants Immigration Reform So Latinos Like His American-Born Son Aren’t Racially Profiled
Border tensions are an inescapable fact of life in Tucson, the city where Richard Estrada grew up and has spent most of his life. “We are a foot away from Mexico,” Estrada says. Everything about life in Tucson is shaped by the negative “us versus them” rhetoric around immigration—even in unexpected places. Because Tucson public […]
Read MoreNew Report Calls into Question CBP’s Use of Force Policy
Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) use-of-force policies are once again under a microscope after a new report written by former Baltimore police commissioner and Justice Department official Thomas Frazier, was released. First reported by the Center for Investigative Journalism’s Reveal, Frazier’s scathing review of CBP policy was done at the request of the family of […]
Read MoreJudge Who Believes Toddlers Can Represent Themselves, Only Part of the Problem in the Battle over Representation for Kids
Over the past week, several media outlets reported that Assistant Chief Immigration Judge (ACIJ) Jack Weil claimed that he could teach immigration law to three- and four-year-old children such that the children could represent themselves in immigration court. Now, Attorney General Loretta Lynch claims that the U.S. Department of Justice is “looking at various ways […]
Read MoreNew U.S. Rule Extends Stay for Some Foreign Graduates
Shruthi Aramandla’s education and her job are geared to New York City’s skyline. She did not want to go back to her native India and start all over again. Ms. Aramandla, 24, who has a master’s degree from the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University, has been waiting anxiously for the federal government […]
Read MoreMedical Dysfunction at ICE Detention Facilities
There is no shortage of stories about immigrants dying from inadequate medical care while in detention centers operated or overseen by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Take the case of Pablo Gracida-Conte, a 54-year-old Mexican man who died of cardiomyopathy in October 2011 in a hospital in Tucson, Arizona, after being transferred from the […]
Read MoreImmigrants in Michigan: Host State of This Week’s GOP & Democrat Debates
This week, the remaining presidential candidates will head to Michigan for their respective party debates. Tonight, Republicans take the stage at the Fox Theatre in Detroit, while Democrats will go head to head in Flint on Sunday. These debates come just before Michigan and Mississippi residents cast their votes in state primaries on March 8. […]
Read MoreObama Administration Files Brief in Immigration Case at Supreme Court
This week, the Obama Administration filed its brief with the Supreme Court in United States v. Texas, the case where Texas and 25 other states are challenging the President’s executive action on expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA). The brief sets forth […]
Read MoreNew U.S.-Mexico Repatriation Agreements Seek to Protect Returning Migrants
Mexican migrants no longer being deported back to Mexico in the middle of the night is one important feature in new Local Repatriation Agreements finalized between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Mexican Government last month at the annual Repatriation Strategy and Policy Executive Coordination Team (RESPECT) meeting. In all, there are nine […]
Read MoreWeekend Reading: Highlights From This Week’s Immigration News
Where does innovation come from? This was the question at the heart of a recent study by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. The answer: immigrants are a driving force behind American innovation, with over a third of U.S. innovators born outside the country. An updated report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy […]
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