Caught in an Educational Dragnet: How the School-to-Deportation Pipeline Harms Immigrant Youth and Youth of Color THE TORCH: CONTENTSBy Emma Tynan, Sarah Kim Pak, Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec, Mark R. Warren MAY 19, 2022 In 2017, a high school sophomore named Alex doodled the name of his Honduran hometown and his high school mascot on a desk. [...]
FLEXING THEIR EXECUTIVE MUSCLE How Governors and Attorneys General Can Use Their Authority to Support and Protect Immigrants Last updated DECEMBER 3, 2018 At the federal level, the Trump administration has launched unprecedented attacks on immigrants’ ability to live, work, and remain in the United States. Largely unchecked by Congress, the administration has demonized and [...]
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On Plyler v. Doe’s 35th Anniversary, This Landmark Supreme Court Decision Must Be Honored and Protected THE TORCH: CONTENTSBy Ignacia Rodriguez, NILC immigration policy advocate June 15, 2017 Today marks the 35th anniversary of Plyler v. Doe, the landmark case in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that it is unconstitutional for a state to [...]
School Settings Are Sensitive Locations That Should Be Off-Limits to Immigration Enforcement THE TORCH: CONTENTSBy Jessica Hanson, NILC Skadden Fellow May 4, 2017 Earlier in this blog series we explored how the current political environment is affecting immigrants in the workplace and immigrants’ access to health care facilities. Today we focus on immigrants’ concerns about sending [...]
The Torch The National Immigration Law Center's blog Photo Credit: Evgenia Parajanian USCIS Fee Schedule Changes Expected to Go Into Effect April 1st On January 31, 2024, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published the updated U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Fee Schedule. This final rule published in the Federal Register aimed to [...]
Education All children, regardless of immigration status, have the constitutional right to attend our nation’s public (K-12) schools. A quality education can provide low-income immigrants with a path out of poverty. NILC works to increase access to education and has fought to counter laws that would chill immigrant families' access to school. In partnership with immigrant youth, NILC [...]
