USCIS announces that it will no longer furlough the majority of its employees. As a result, the agency will greatly decrease operating costs, and, this will likely cause longer processing and wait times.
CLINIC has updated its DACA advisory to reflect memos and changes from the Department of Homeland Security as well as the United State Citizenship and Immigration Services. These changes include USCIS’ rejection of renewal requests that are more than 150 days from current expiration of status and that a travel document may be considered.
More than 2,000,000 U.S. Citizens have been excluded from receiving CARES Act stimulus checks due to a new rule imposed by Trump that restricts any citizen married to someone with immigrant status. Marco Rubio has proposed to overturn this rule and establish a new one specifying all U.S. citizens may receive funding regardless of to whom they are married.
Read MoreWhile Trump has diligently endeavored to dismantle the asylum system within the United States, Morrissey and Schroeder point out the inherent flaws in the system long before Trump was elected. Notably, issues of location greatly influence someone’s access to legal representation and chance of gaining asylum based on a judge’s past record. Furthermore, issues of bias against countries and widely diverse interpretations of ‘special groups’ greatly affect someone’s chance of getting asylum. Only about 19% of asylum applicants have achieved asylum.
Read MoreMembers of a meeting held in 2018 come forward about Stephen Miller’s pressure on the Department of Homeland Security to implement family separation policy as an intentional deterrent for migration to the United States. Before then, DHS had refrained from separating family members since the system could not process individual cases effectively. 11 members held the policy to a vote where the majority decided to begin family separation at the border.
Read MoreAttorney General Xavier Becerra will challenge Trump’s latest attempts to dismantle DACA. While a judge in June required DHS to begin processing DACA applications as they were before September 2017, Trump laid out a new set of rules that limits the relief option for young people. The new plans prevent any new DACA applications and decreases its duration to one year from two.
Read MoreThe ILRC provides updates on the changes that USCIS has made due to COVID-19.
Attorneys representing children in ICE detention centers petitioned Judge Gee to enforce ICE to release children. Advocates claim that ICE has not explained rights to parents about releasing their children to a relative’s custody outside of detention. Gee admonished ICE as she granted them another month to abide by her order for the immediate release of children in detention centers under Flores Settlement guidelines.
Read MoreTrump’s COVID-era policy to immediately expel families and children crossing the border have led to immigration agencies contracting transportation companies such as MVM to detain people at hotels while they wait their expulsion. This policy and practice raises concerns over proper legal protection for children in custody.
Read MoreThis resource reviews the litany of polices Trump’s administration has executed to decrease immigration to the United States. It details if the policy has been proposed, is in litigation, and its potential finality.
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