On the Border Wall: Senator Jones opposes the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. He has often compared the construction of the U.S.- Mexico border wall to the Berlin Wall and has urged that the U.S. is better than that. He believes that the proposed budget for the border wall is too high, and would […]
On Monday, the Supreme Court granted President Trump’s to enforce his revised Travel Ban while legal arguments continue in lower courts. The Travel Ban restricts travelers from eight nations, most of which are Muslim nations: Syria, Libya, Iran, Yemen, Chad, Somalia, North Korea and Venezuela. Oral arguments are scheduled to take place in both federal […]
With barely a 24 hour notice, the Department of State (DOS) stopped accepting new applications for the Central American Minors (CAM) refugee program on Nov. 9, 2017. Likewise, USCIS will stop interviewing CAM cases as of Jan. 31, 2018. After that date, individuals with pending applications who have not been interviewed will receive a notice […]
The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke announced the termination of TPS for Haiti effective July 22, 2019. The decision was made after a review of the country conditions. It was determined that the original country condition that designated Haiti to be given Temporary Protected Status as a result of the 2010 earthquake no […]
The wait time for naturalization applications has nearly doubled in the last year due to the increase in applications received at the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Naturalization applications used to take five to seven months to be processed, and now they are taking close to a year, if not more in some […]
On November 6, The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ended the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Nicaragua, effectively ending the legal authorization for over five thousand Nicaraguan Nationals to live and work in the United States. DHS has delayed the official termination date until January 5, 2019. The jury is still out on Honduras. DHS […]
Nationals from El Salvador, Honduras, Haiti and Nicaragua, who have been permitted to live in the U.S. because of natural disasters and violence that have occurred in their countries, now await a decision on whether or not their Temporary Protected Status (TPS) with be extended or terminated. The Department of Homeland Security will have to […]
The White House announced that the U.S. will only admit 45,000 refugees for Fiscal Year 2018. This will be the lowest refugee admissions ceiling ever set by the U.S. government. The limited refugee visas will be allocated with 19,000 for Africa; 17,500 for the Near East/South Asia; 5,000 for East Asia; and 2,000 for Europe and Central […]
During an appearance at the Department of Justice, Attorney General Jeff Session requested that Congress curb due process for immigrants by making it difficult for an individual to seek asylum and to increase the deportation process. Sessions accused the current asylum system of being subject to rampant abuse and fraud and the asylum seekers of […]
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is planning on implementing numerical quotas on judges as a way of tracking their and evaluating their performance. Currently, immigration judges are not rated based on the number of cases they adjudicate. The DOJ is currently in negotiations with the National Association of Immigration Judges to remove those safeguards and […]
