Apr 2, 2025 This explainer describes how a budget reconciliation bill will unlock the Trump administration’s ability to experiment with new and heightened authoritarian tactics through immigration enforcement, threatening basic constitutional rights and...
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Apr 16, 2025 If you think mass deportations don’t have anything to do with you, think again.
Feb 20, 2025 On Feb. 19, President Trump signed an executive order order that claims to take aim at undocumented immigrants’ access to social services and other government assistance. However, as NILC noted in our statement, it scapegoats immigrants while...
Feb 10, 2025 Congressional leaders are considering legislation that would increase the deficit due to higher spending on immigration enforcement and defense programs while renewing and expanding tax...
Mar 25, 2024 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 adjust certain benefit request...
Sep 9, 2021 In the coming months, Congress will have the opportunity to rectify a decades-old injustice and take a big step toward achieving racial equity by passing the LIFT the BAR Act (full name: Lifting Immigrant Families through Benefits Access...
May 27, 2021 The U.S. Department of Education (ED) recently finalized new federal regulations and accompanying frequently-asked-questions (FAQ) guidance that remove the Trump administration’s unfair and unlawful restrictions denying undocumented and other...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
Aug 20, 2019 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently published its final set of regulations on “public charge,” which amount to a racially-motivated wealth test on immigrant families and individuals pursuing a healthy, stable future in...
Jul 8, 2019 From family separations at the border to a proposed “public charge” rule that would punish immigrant families for using health, housing, and nutrition programs, the Trump administration has been issuing policies that strike fear within...
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...
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