Tag Archives: immigration

Biden Admin Scraps Trump-Era Citizenship Test Changes

Reuters reports: The Biden administration confirmed Monday that it will scrap the Trump administration’s changes to the U.S. citizenship test, which made the exam longer and more difficult. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will revert back to using an exam created in 2008, the agency said in a policy alert. Immigrants must pass an English proficiency test and a civics …

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Biden Admin: Use “More Inclusive” Immigration Terms

Axios reports: The Biden administration is urging officials to use more inclusive terms for immigrants, including replacing the word “alien” with “noncitizen,” Axios has learned. Why it matters: The Trump administration referred to unauthorized immigrants as “illegal aliens,” and described border crossings as an “invasion.” The new terms point to President Biden’s more welcoming immigration stance overall. According to an …

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Biden Task Force Will Work To Reunite Migrant Families

Axios reports: President Biden will sign three immigration-related executive orders on Tuesday — including one that will establish a task force aimed at reuniting migrant families separated under former President Trump’s hardline immigration policies, according to senior administraiton officials. The Trump administration oversaw the separation of more than 5,500 migrant families, including hundreds of children whose parents or guardians have …

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DOJ To SCOTUS: Cancel Arguments In Border Wall Suit

The Associated Press reports: The Justice Department asked the justices Monday to cancel arguments on Feb. 22 in a case over President Donald Trump’s decision to divert billions of dollars in taxpayer money to construction of portions of a wall along the border with Mexico. The new administration made a similar request for arguments set for a week later over …

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Jordan Busted In Lies About Biden Executive Order

CNN’s Daniel Dale reports: President Joe Biden has already ordered significant changes to US immigration policy. But he has not issued an order that Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan claims he did. Jordan said on Facebook and Twitter on Saturday that Biden issued a new order to release “all” undocumented immigrants. Similarly, Jordan said in a Monday interview with Fox …

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Texas AG Wins Halt On Biden Deportation Moratorium

The Associated Press reports: A federal judge on Tuesday barred the U.S. government from enforcing a 100-day deportation moratorium that is a key immigration priority of President Joe Biden. U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton issued a temporary restraining order sought by Texas, which sued on Friday against a Department of Homeland Security memo that instructed immigration agencies to pause most …

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Texas AG Sues Biden Over Pause In Deportations

The Austin Statesman reports: Following through on his promise to sue the Biden administration early and often, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Friday asked a federal judge to block a new policy that pauses most deportations for the next 100 days. The policy, which went into effect Friday, was announced by acting Homeland Security Secretary David Pekoske as part …

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Carlson: Biden Wants To Bring In Killers And Rapists

Media Matters has the transcript: Biden also instructed the Department of Homeland Security to halt deportations of illegal aliens. And when we say illegal aliens, by the way, pretty soon we won’t be allowed to say illegal aliens because it’ll be hate speech and therefore illegal. But tonight when we say illegal aliens, we mean millions of illegal aliens, not …

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Biden Plan: 8-Year Citizenship Path For Undocumented

The Associated Press reports: President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on Day One of his administration, hoping to provide an eight-year path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. without legal status, a massive reversal from the Trump administration’s harsh immigration policies. The legislation puts Biden on track to deliver on …

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SCOTUS Punts For Now In Census/Immigrants Case

NPR reports: The U.S. Supreme Court dodged a ruling on whether President Trump can exclude undocumented immigrants from a key census count. The opinion said the case was “riddled with contingencies and speculation that impede judicial review.” “At the end of the day, the standing and ripeness inquiries both lead to the conclusion that judicial resolution of this” case is …

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Census Bureau Estimates US Population At 330 Million

Roll Call reports: At least 330 million people lived in the United States as of April, according to a Census Bureau estimate released Tuesday that will serve as one of the first accuracy checks for forthcoming decennial census results. Overall, the agency estimates that between 330 and 335 million people lived in the United States as of April 1, the …

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Court: DHS Must Post Web Notice Welcoming Dreamers

Law & Crime reports: Formally rescinding acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf’s memo on the grounds that he was illegally appointed, a federal judge on Friday ordered the DHS to unfurl the welcome mat on its website and invite aspiring Dreamers to make first-time requests for consideration under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The Homeland Security website must also …

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Federal Court Rules Acting DHS Head Was Unlawfully Appointed, Invalidates His Action On DACA Protections

NBC News reports: A federal judge in New York City on Saturday said Chad Wolf has not been acting lawfully as the chief of Homeland Security and that, as such, his suspension of protections for a class of migrants brought to the United States illegally as children is invalid. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the Trump administration …

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Miller Outlines Second-Term Anti-Immigrant Actions

NBC News reports: President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Stephen Miller has fleshed out plans to rev up Trump’s restrictive immigration agenda if he wins re-election next week, offering a stark contrast to the platform of Democratic nominee Joe Biden. In a 30-minute phone interview Thursday with NBC News, Miller outlined four major priorities: limiting asylum grants, punishing and outlawing so-called …

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SCOTUS To Review “Remain In Mexico” Asylum Policy

Reuters reports: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide the legality of one of President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration policies that has forced tens of thousands of migrants along the southern border to wait in Mexico, rather than entering the United States, while their asylum claims are processed. The justices will hear a Trump administration appeal of a …

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ICE Posts Billboards In “Sanctuary City” Philadelphia

Via press release from ICE: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched a billboard campaign today in Pennsylvania to educate the public about the dangers of non-cooperation policies. The billboards feature at-large immigration violators who may pose a public safety threat. These individuals were previously arrested or convicted of crimes in the U.S., but were released into the community instead …

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Trump Admin May Put Up Billboards Of “Illegals”

CNN reports: The Trump administration is considering putting up billboards of immigration violators, an unprecedented move in lockstep with the President’s law-and-order message ahead of the election, according to two sources familiar with the proposal. President Donald Trump has repeatedly gone after so-called “sanctuary cities” — cities that limit cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities — arguing …

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DHS To Probe Report Of Medical Abuse At ICE Facility

The New York Times reports: The Department of Homeland Security is investigating allegations that immigrant women detained at a privately run detention center in Georgia underwent gynecological procedures without fully understanding or consenting to them. The allegations, some of which were submitted this week as part of a whistle-blower complaint by a nurse at the facility, already have prompted more …

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Top Dems Demand Probe After Nurse Whistleblower Alleges Medical Abuse At Georgia ICE Detention Center

Forbes reports: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Tuesday called for an investigation into a Georgia ICE detention center where a whistleblower complaint from one of the facility’s nurses detailed health care abuses, including questionable hysterectomies and a refusal to test for and report coronavirus cases. Several legal advocacy groups filed the 27-page whistleblower complaint with the DHS’s Office of …

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DHS Wants Biometric Data For Sponsors of Immigrants

The Hill reports: The Trump administration on Friday issued a proposal to expand its DNA and other biometric data collection of immigrants to include citizens sponsoring them. In a document published on the Federal Register, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposed that “any applicant, petitioner, sponsor, beneficiary, or individual filing or associated with an immigration benefit or request, including …

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