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Texas and Biden Administration Lawyers Face off in Court Over New Law Making Illegal Border Crossing a State Crime
An Austin judge will decide whether Senate Bill 4 will go into effect on March 5. The new law allows police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the border. BY URIEL J. GARCÍA AND POOJA SALHOTRA FEB. 15, 2024UPDATED: 2 PM CENTRAL Lawyers for the Biden administration and Texas faced off in a federal court in Austin…
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ICE Draft Plan Would Release Thousands of Immigrants in Order to Cover Budget Shortfall
By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Updated 12:42 PM EST, Wed February 14, 2024 WashingtonCNN — Immigration and Customs Enforcement has drafted contingency plans to cut detention capacity and release thousands of immigrants as a result, according to a source familiar with the plan. The draft plan comes as ICE faces a dire budget shortfall amid stalled congressional action…
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Surge in Immigration Will Boost U.S. Economy, Congressional Budget Office Says
BY RICH MILLER / BLOOMBERG FEBRUARY 7, 2024 10:10 PM EST The surge in immigration will help bolster the U.S. economy by about $7 trillion over the next decade by swelling the labor force and increasing demand, the Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday. The stronger growth will be good for the federal government, lifting revenues…
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Several US Immigration, Naturalization Fees to Increase in April
Taylor Delandro Updated: FEB 8, 2024 / 12:25 PM CST (NewsNation) — The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will increase the cost of some immigration and naturalization requests in April. In finalizing a new rule, the agency shared details on the new fees, which will apply to any benefit requests postmarked on or after April 1. It will affect…
Read MoreCompleting an Unprecedented 10 Million Immigration Cases in Fiscal Year 2023, USCIS Reduced Its Backlog for the First Time in Over a Decade
Release Date 02/09/2024 New USCIS data show progress on customer experience, employment-based immigration, naturalization, and humanitarian work WASHINGTON— Today U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is releasing end of fiscal year (FY) 2023 data that illustrate the agency’s progress in meeting its strategic priorities. The USCIS workforce has worked tirelessly over the past year to uphold…
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Americans are Increasingly Worried About Immigration and National Identity, Poll Shows
By Laura Santhanam Feb 7, 2024 5:00 AM EST For a majority of Americans, the United States’ openness to people from all over the world remains essential to the fabric of the nation. Yet, just as Congress wages a battle over the border and the future of immigration, support for that bigger idea has been…
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Immigrant Workers Are Informing on Bad Bosses — And Getting Work Permits
Hundreds of New York laborers have received papers that let them get on-the-books jobs under a Biden administration policy that protects workplace whistleblowers and aids prosecutors. BY CLAUDIA IRIZARRY APONTE JAN. 30, 2024, 5:01 A.M. Construction worker José Moncada fractured his wrist while using a jackhammer on a demolition job in Manhattan six years ago — and…
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H-1B Domestic Visa Renewal Pilot Program Begins as Demand Soars
By Andrew Kreighbaum Jan. 29, 2024, 3:55 AM CST A limited number of H-1B workers now can begin applying to renew their visas without leaving the US, the first time in two decades the option has been available. The State Department on Monday will release the first 4,000 application slots for its long-anticipated domestic visa renewal…
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Immigration Emerges as Key 2024 Election Wedge Issue for Trump, Vulnerability for Biden
By Alexandra Hutzler January 25, 2024, 4:15 AM “Biden’s on a tightrope with this issue,” one observer told ABC News. Immigration, one of the most politically divisive and complex matters in the U.S. for decades, is emerging as a top issue in the 2024 election. Look no further than Iowa and New Hampshire, two early-voting states thousands of miles…
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