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What Does the Masterpiece Cakeshop Ruling Mean for Immigrant Communities?
Published Jun 5, 2018
The Promise of America?
Published May 8, 2018 Early in the morning late last month, while it was drizzling, cold, and still a little dark, I stood with a dozen others on the steps of this country’s highest court feeling a lot of anxiety and some hope as I waited in line to get a seat for...
3 Important Points to Know about Texas’s DACA Lawsuit
Published May 4, 2018 On May 1, 2018, Texas and six other states filed a lawsuit against the federal government challenging the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. They filed the case in the U.S. District Court for the Southern...
Government’s Supreme Court Argument Tries to Divorce from Trump’s Own Words and Record His Ban on Travel from Muslim-majority Countries
Published Apr 25, 2018
Trump’s Latest Muslim Ban Makes Its Way to the Supreme Court
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
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?...
What to Look for in Any “DACA Solution”
Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec
Published Jun 14, 2018