ICE to avoid detaining pregnant, nursing, and postpartum women.
ICE said it will no longer detain most pregnant, nursing and postpartum women for deportation, reversing a Trump-era rule that permitted officials to jail thousands…
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New immigration policy is opening doors for mixed-status families.
Under Trump’s proposal, those families faced the choice of either kicking out the undocumented family member to keep the home, or keep the family together…
USCIS extends flexibility for responding to agency requests.
USCIS announced that it is extending the flexibilities it announced on March 30, 2020 to assist certain applicants, petitioners, and requestors. These individuals include those who…
President Biden reinstates DED for eligible Liberians.
On Jan. 20, 2021, President Biden issues a memo directing the secretary of DHS to reinstate Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) for eligible Liberians and to provide…
Deportation of Africans cancelled after reports of torture by ICE
A plane carrying African asylum seekers due to take off from Alexandria, Louisiana was cancelled with minutes to spare after advocacy groups published affidavits by detainees…
The Race to Dismantle Trump’s Immigration Policies
The New Yorker reports on the “extensive, unpublicized bureaucratic effort to transform immigration through rule changes, adjustments to asylum officers’ guidelines, modifications to enforcement norms, and other measures”…
Biden gets rid of MPP Policy
The Law Offices of Brian D. Lerner, APC is a National Immigration Law Firm and can help with the understanding of all the new executive…
First 100 Days of the Biden Administration
On his first day in office, in addition to presenting immigration reform legislation to Congress, the president and his administration took a number of immigration-related executive actions.…
Senate Democrats introduce legislation to grant TPS to Venezuelans.
Democratic senators introduced legislation to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Venezuelans in the U.S., saying the actions former President Trump took on his last day…
Lawsuit filed against CBP for access to migrant 911 call data.
immigration advocacy groups filed a FOIA lawsuit against Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seeking information regarding the agency’s policies and practices that advocates say are fueling…
HOW HAS PRESIDENT BIDEN CHANGED IMMIGRATION?
On January 20, 2021, President Biden issued several orders on immigration. Some orders take immediate effect while others may take more time to be implemented.…
Census Bureau Stops Work on Trump’s Request for Unauthorized Immigrant Count
NPR reports that the U.S. Census Bureau has halted all work on President Trump’s directive to produce a state-by-state count of unauthorized immigrants, which the president planned…