Immigration

A number of states and universities have filed lawsuits against the Trump Administration against a new order that could strip visas from foreign students who can’t study on campus due to the coronavirus. Wade McMullen, an attorney from the non-profit organization Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, says the new rules are part of the Trump Administration’s effort to shut down...

U.S. immigration courts are resuming hearings for non-detained immigrants despite a record rise in coronavirus cases in many of the states where they are reopening.

The New York Times reports how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement inadvertently helped spread Covid-19 across the globe by holding immigrants in detention centers that became hotbeds for the virus before deportation.

Lawyers representing immigrant families in detention filed a complaint to the Department of Homeland Security on Sunday alleging that ICE has failed to provide adequate medical care to their clients, NBC News reports.

Immigration Attorney Christopher Macchiaroli does a deep dive into two recent court rulings relating to the Trump Administration’s ban on asylum-seekers and what lasting impact they may have on those seeking refuge in the U.S.

USC filed court papers Wednesday in support of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a lawsuit challenging U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement restrictions on visas for international students taking a full online course load in the fall. USC President Carol Folt said the university is also “actively considering all other legal options” and “working with our congressional delegation and...

The Trump administration has proposed a new rule that would allow it to deny asylum to immigrants who are deemed a public health risk.

ICE has retracted a temporary rule that allowed foreign students to attend school online during the coronavirus pandemic — potentially forcing many out of the U.S. and preventing others from arriving in the fall. Rosanna Berardi, an immigration attorney, explains how the new rule is an extension of the Trump Administration’s attack on legal immigration.

The U.S. government announced Monday that international students will not be allowed to stay in the country if the institution in which they’re enrolled is holding online-only courses this fall. If students fail to comply with the rules, they risk deportation.

The U.S. government announced Monday that international students will not be allowed to stay in the country if the institution in which they’re enrolled is holding online-only courses this fall. If students fail to comply with the rules, they risk deportation.

A federal judge has knocked down a cornerstone border policy of the Trump administration that denies asylum to people who travel through another country to reach the Mexico border without first seeking protection in that country.

A federal court Tuesday night upheld a challenge to the Trump administration’s asylum restrictions, namely a 2019 rule that requires seekers to ask for asylum closer to home.

An international disaster relief organization reports the first confirmed case of COVID-19 among migrants living in a tent encampment of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The U.S. has resumed swearing in new citizens, but the traditional oath ceremonies aren’t the same because of the COVID-19 pandemic

An immigrant detainee at the Otay Mesa Detention Center is alleging that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are failing to protect detainees from an “uncontrollable outbreak” of COVID-19 inside the facility.

The Supreme Court has strengthened the Trump administration’s ability to deport people seeking asylum without allowing them to make their case to a federal judge

A Guatemalan man seriously injured in a motorcycle crash was scheduled to be deported, according to his family. But they say they found out Wednesday that he now has another four weeks before a decision is made.

The Supreme Court decision defending Dreamers was just the latest twist in a long battle over undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. But how did the DACA program begin in the first place? And what happens next? Emily Tisch Sussman, legal expert and host of the podcast Your Primary Playlist, breaks it down.

President Trump has signed an executive order expanding restrictions on work visas, claiming the move will reduce American unemployment. But many jobs that are going to be vacant because of the restrictions will be difficult to fill from the U.S. labor pool, says immigration attorney Rosanna Berardi.

The Trump administration on Monday extended a ban on green cards issued outside the United States until the end of the year and added many temporary work visas to the freeze, including those used heavily by technology companies and multinational corporations. The administration cast the effort as a way to free up jobs in an economy reeling from the coronavirus….