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Shared Crisis, Shared Solutions: State and Local Advocacy for an Immigrant-Inclusive Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
Published Apr 24, 2020 This report explores immigrant-inclusive economic justice policy opportunities for state and local advocates to pursue in their communities.
To Ensure Collective Health and Safety, Federal Packages for COVID-19 Relief Must Include Immigrant Communities
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
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
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
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
Published Apr 1, 2020
Trump’s Public Charge Rule Created Harm Even Before It Was Implemented
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
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...
Worksite Raids under the Trump Administration
Published Jan 1, 2020 This resource has an interactive map and graph that depict the geography and frequency of worksite immigration raids since 2017, and provides resources for impacted workers, communities, and employers. Originally published in August...
Proposed Immigration Fee Increases Favor the Wealthy, Diminishing Opportunities for Asylum-Seekers and DACA Recipients
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...
Immigrants’ Rights Gain Ground in the States: 2018-2019
Published Dec 11, 2019 This report highlights some of the victories won by immigrants’ rights advocates, organizers, and allies in the states from 2018-2019.
Stakes Are Huge for Hundreds of Thousands and Their Communities after Today’s Supreme Court Argument
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
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
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...
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...