Commentary

Four Ways You Can Help #BringMarcoBack

Published Apr 23, 2018

Reflections on Resistance against the Muslim Ban

Published Apr 17, 2018

Trump’s Latest Muslim Ban Makes Its Way to the Supreme Court

Subha Varadarajan

Published Apr 2, 2018 On April 25, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether one of the latest versions of Trump’s Muslim ban exceeds the authority of the president under federal immigration law and whether it violates the U.S. Constitution by...

Trump’s Proposed Immigration Rule Would Harm All of Us

Madison Hardee and Jenny Rejeske

Published Mar 29, 2018 On March 28, the Washington Post reported on the latest chapter in the saga of the Trump administration’s attacks on immigrant families—a pernicious attempt to force families to make an impossible choice between meeting their basic needs...

Wrong Information on USCIS Website Resulted in Rejected DACA Renewal Application

Published Feb 26, 2018

Allowed to Finally Shine

Published Feb 23, 2018 My name is Fatima. I am 30 years old and have lived almost my entire life as undocumented in the United States. My mother immigrated from Bangladesh to New York when I was a year and a half...

This Little Piece of Freedom to Be Almost Normal, Like My Peers

Published Feb 22, 2018 My family applied for visitor visas in the early ’90s, and by 1996 we were granted a visa to come visit my grandparents in Chicago from India. It was a really big deal for my family, and the fact that I hadn’t seen my grandparents in three...

Anywhere We Are Planted We Are Capable of Blooming

Published Feb 21, 2018 I am a Jamaican-born, American-raised, Black-immigrant woman. Before President Obama’s executive order, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), I was what you’d consider an undocumented immigrant. In some respects, I still am. Why?...

We Are Not Afraid

Published Feb 20, 2018 Like most of my fellow Dreamers, I did not understand what being “illegal” meant until I started applying for higher education.

Photo Journal: Not Just a Dreamer

Published Feb 16, 2018 Brittany Aguilera lost her DACA on December 7, 2017. A trained photographer who lives in New York, Brittany documented her experiences through photos the day before and the day after her DACA...

Dreamers Are Trailblazers for Their Families and Communities

Published Feb 15, 2018 My name is Guadalupe. I feel blessed to tell my story because my story is not about circumstances; my story is about me.

A Dreamer Whose Contributions Help Drive America

Published Feb 13, 2018 I came to the United States when I was eleven. I was unaware that I was undocumented until I was around thirteen. I did not understand at the time the implications this would have in my life. But I have come to learn that it affects me...

We Hope for an American Future

Published Feb 12, 2018 When an Ethiopian boy effectively arrived on our rural central Maryland doorstep as a one-year-old, my wife and I chose to do the right thing.

How ICE Uses Databases and Information-Sharing to Deport Immigrants

Joan Friedland

Published Jan 25, 2018 Immigrants’ rights advocates are concerned about how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the larger agency of which it’s a part, the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS), use databases and information-sharing systems to...

Cinco cosas que debe saber sobre el último anuncio de USCIS

Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

Published Jan 24, 2018 El Servicio de Ciudadanía e Inmigración de EE.UU. (USCIS, por su sigla en inglés) ha anunciado que volverá a aceptar solicitudes de renovación de DACA (Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia) a partir del 13 de enero de...