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Immigrants in Low-Wage Frontline Jobs Need COVID-19 Protections Now
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...
Trump’s Public Charge Rule Created Harm Even Before It Was Implemented
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...
Proposed Immigration Fee Increases Favor the Wealthy, Diminishing Opportunities for Asylum-Seekers and DACA Recipients
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...
New DACA Survey Results Confirm Gains for Recipients, Highlight Risks of Uncertainty as Cases Head to the Supreme Court
Sep 25, 2019 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has provided approximately 825,000 immigrant youth with work permits and temporary protection from deportation since 2012. In September 2017, the Trump administration announced it was rescinding...
Trump Demands Border Wall in the Face of Evidence Documenting Harms to Migrants, Border Communities, and the Environment
May 7, 2019 In February, President Trump declared a national emergency so that he could allocate $6.7 billion in taxpayer dollars, without congressional appropriation, to construct more wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. In February, a 16-state coalition...
Research Shows a Citizenship Question Would Suppress Participation among Latinxs and Immigrants in the 2020 Census, Undermining Its Reliability
Apr 22, 2019 The U.S. Constitution requires a decennial census of all persons living in the country, and our nation has carried out this duty since 1790. Specifically, the census must count all people living in the U.S. and record where they live. These...
Worksite Immigration Raids Terrorize Workers and Communities Now, and Their Devastating Consequences Are Long-Term
Apr 11, 2019 Early in the Trump administration, U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials promised to increase worksite enforcement actions that specifically target immigrant workers. Subsequently, raids conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs...
More Spending on Border Will Secure Only More Suffering
Jan 30, 2019 After a catastrophic and unprecedented government shutdown, lawmakers are convening this week to negotiate a border security plan amid persistent threats from the president that he might shut the government down again three weeks from now. The...
Trump-McConnell Bill Is an Anti-Immigrant Wish List
Jan 23, 2019 For over a month, President Trump and Senate Majority Leader McConnell have remained at the helm of what is by far the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. Both Trump and McConnell are responsible for holding the paychecks of...
Trump’s Wall Demands Hurt People Already Hurting the Most
Jan 14, 2019
To Ensure Collective Health and Safety, Federal Packages for COVID-19 Relief Must Include Immigrant Communities
Holly Straut-Eppsteiner
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...