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The Trump administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for migrants from several nations—including El Salvador, Honduras, and Haiti—has not only threatened over 300,000 long-term residents with deportation and separation from their families, but created potential workforce turmoil in multiple industries nationwide. The impending loss of workers will have ripple effects throughout local economies […]

The post Vital Industries Could Suffer Significant Damage as Workers With TPS Lose Their Status appeared first on Immigration Impact.

The following is a transcript of a conversation taking place in the fall of 2018 which has been lightly edited for clarity.   Jody Aguis Vallejo: In your recent book, The Other Side of Assimilation, you argue that examining immigrants and their descendants only tells one side of how the process of integration unfolds.

There is no doubt that a thoughtful conversation needs to be had around border security. However, it must be grounded in the realities of who is actually arriving at the U.S. border with Mexico, the reasons they are coming, and what the most pragmatic and humane response to them is. In the past several years, […]

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There were nearly 416,000 apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border in the first 11 months of 2018. Family members accounted for a third of these apprehensions.

The post Border apprehensions increased in 2018 – especially for migrant families appeared first on Pew Research Center.

In this blog post, AILA Media Advocacy Committee Member Matthew Maiona highlights the unintended consequences of the shutdown, including a halt to the E-Verify program which allows U.S. employers to check the eligibility of applicants to work.

As the Trump administration continues to strip away due process in immigration courts, the recent creation of two “Immigration Adjudication Centers” is cause for concern. The two new facilities are called “Centers,” not “courts,” despite being places where judges decide whether to issue orders of deportation. The Centers came out of a “Caseload Reduction Plan” […]

The post The Judicial Black Sites the Government Created to Speed Up Deportations appeared first on Immigration Impact.

Roughly 25 percent of the federal government shut down on December 22 after President Trump declared his intent to veto any funding bill that didn’t contain five billion dollars for building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Thirteen days later, much of the government remains shut down, with Republican Senate leadership currently refusing to move […]

The post No End In Sight as Shutdown Over Trump’s Border Wall Enters Third Week appeared first on Immigration Impact.

AILA Executive Director Ben Johnson takes a look at the real dangers to U.S. border security, writing "Were the President serious about border security, he would focus his administration's attention and resources on the transnational criminal cartels who deal drugs, run guns, and launder money."

January 2 marked the final day for comments on a proposed rule by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that would implement a new registration requirement for H-1B visas for well-educated foreign professionals. This proposal would require employers looking to hire H-1B workers to first register electronically with the agency during a specified registration period. […]

The post With Comment Period Expired, Uncertainty Remains About H-1B Registration Process appeared first on Immigration Impact.

In early December, seven-year-old Guatemalan Jakelin Caal died within hours after coming into the custody of Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Her tragic death brought renewed attention to the systemic problems of medical care in CBP’s “iceboxes,” where not even children are screened for medical problems after being detained. Tragically, a second child, eight-year-old Felipe […]

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