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    Supreme Court Overturns Trump Administration’s Termination of DACA

    Supreme Court Overturns Trump Administration’s Termination of DACA

    Published Jun 22, 2020 On June 18, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision finding that the Trump administration’s termination of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was (1) judicially reviewable and (2) done in an arbitrary and capricious...

    Top 5 Things to Know about DACA Now That the Supreme Court Has Ruled

    Top 5 Things to Know about DACA Now That the Supreme Court Has Ruled

    Luis Leyva-Castillo

    Published Jun 22, 2020 First, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision on June 18, 2020, holding that the Trump administration’s 2017 attempt to terminate Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was improper. The Court found that the Trump administration’s...

    Next Senate COVID-19 Bill Must Include 5 Key Immigrant-Inclusive Provisions of House HEROES Act

    Next Senate COVID-19 Bill Must Include 5 Key Immigrant-Inclusive Provisions of House HEROES Act

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published May 28, 2020 When the U.S. Senate returns from recess in early June, your senators will have yet another opportunity to provide crucial relief to people in immigrant communities who, unacceptably, have been left out of the COVID-19 relief bills passed so...

    To Ensure Collective Health and Safety, Federal Packages for COVID-19 Relief Must Include Immigrant Communities

    To Ensure Collective Health and Safety, Federal Packages for COVID-19 Relief Must Include Immigrant Communities

    Holly Straut-Eppsteiner

    Published Apr 21, 2020 The COVID-19 public health crisis has demonstrated how our health and well-being — everyone’s — are interconnected. Congress has passed relief packages that help many Americans access health care, paid leave, and economic support, but...

    Immigrants in Low-Wage Frontline Jobs Need COVID-19 Protections Now

    Immigrants in Low-Wage Frontline Jobs Need COVID-19 Protections Now

    Holly Straut-Eppsteiner

    Published Apr 10, 2020 Across the United States, workers doing essential jobs continue reporting to them, keeping grocery shelves stocked and stores sanitized, laboring at construction sites, preparing and delivering packages to our doors, collecting trash and...

    DACA Renewal Guidance in Light of USCIS Office Closures and the Forthcoming U.S. Supreme Court Decision

    DACA Renewal Guidance in Light of USCIS Office Closures and the Forthcoming U.S. Supreme Court Decision

    Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published Apr 3, 2020 In response to the COVID-19 public health crisis, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has clarified its process for handling Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) renewal requests. According to USCIS’s website, its...

    COVID-19 Doesn’t Discriminate — Neither Should Congress’s Response

    COVID-19 Doesn’t Discriminate — Neither Should Congress’s Response

    Avideh Moussavian and Manar Waheed

    Published Apr 2, 2020 Congress’s third bill addressing the impacts of COVID-19, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, was a necessary attempt to respond to this public health crisis, but its exclusion of immigrant communities is downright...

    Federal COVID-19 bills fall short of meeting the basic health care and economic needs of millions of Americans

    Federal COVID-19 bills fall short of meeting the basic health care and economic needs of millions of Americans

    Published Apr 1, 2020

    Trump’s Public Charge Rule Created Harm Even Before It Was Implemented

    Trump’s Public Charge Rule Created Harm Even Before It Was Implemented

    Holly Straut-Eppsteiner

    Published Mar 2, 2020 In September 2018, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposed a new set of regulations that would make drastic changes to determinations regarding which immigrants are eligible to be admitted as lawful permanent residents in the...

    Know Your Power. Consider Renewing Your DACA Today

    Know Your Power. Consider Renewing Your DACA Today

    Diana Pliego and Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec

    Published Jan 17, 2020 Earlier this week, on January 13, 2020, we marked the two-year anniversary of the first injunction that reopened the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) renewal application process. The first injunction and the injunctions that...

    Proposed Immigration Fee Increases Favor the Wealthy, Diminishing Opportunities for Asylum-Seekers and DACA Recipients

    Proposed Immigration Fee Increases Favor the Wealthy, Diminishing Opportunities for Asylum-Seekers and DACA Recipients

    Holly Straut-Eppsteiner

    Published Dec 17, 2019 A new set of fee increases proposed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is the latest tactic by the Trump administration to fundamentally alter our immigration system to favor wealthy...

    Stakes Are Huge for Hundreds of Thousands and Their Communities after Today’s Supreme Court Argument

    Stakes Are Huge for Hundreds of Thousands and Their Communities after Today’s Supreme Court Argument

    Trudy Rebert

    Published Nov 12, 2019 Departing the U.S. Supreme Court into a cold fall day, dozens of people whose lives are in the balance — plaintiffs, their mothers, and other Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients — emerged from today’s oral argument...

    How the Trump Deportation Machine Relies on Inaccurate Databases and Unregulated Data Collection

    How the Trump Deportation Machine Relies on Inaccurate Databases and Unregulated Data Collection

    Joan Friedland

    Published Nov 1, 2019 In a groundbreaking decision, a U.S. district court in California recently concluded that the immigration databases U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) relies on are too unreliable to form the basis for probable cause to issue...

    How the Trump Administration Is Using Ineffective No-Match Letters in a Way That Hurts Seniors, Workers, and Employers

    How the Trump Administration Is Using Ineffective No-Match Letters in a Way That Hurts Seniors, Workers, and Employers

    Published Oct 31, 2019 This past spring, the Social Security Administration (SSA) sent over 500,000 SSA “no-match” letters to employers across the country. And this fall, they’re at it again. An SSA no-match occurs when the names or Social Security numbers...

    Home Is Here, and We’re Here to Stay

    Home Is Here, and We’re Here to Stay

    Diana Pliego

    Published Oct 25, 2019 Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in three consolidated Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) cases. But it will be doing more than that. Its deliberation, on any scale, is a debate over whether I and hundreds...