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Completing 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…
Read MoreOver 150 Arrested During Human Trafficking Sting in Scottsdale
By Ben Bradley Published: Feb. 14, 2024 at 6:43 PM CST|Updated: Feb. 15, 2024 at 7:17 PM CST SCOTTSDALE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) — Scottsdale police say dozens of people were arrested during a multi-agency operation targeting human trafficking in the East Valley city. Between Jan. 23 and Feb. 10, the Scottsdale Police Human Exploitation and Trafficking Unit (HEAT) and other Valley-area…
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Suburban Chicago Woman Arrested for Human Trafficking of Mexican Migrants
By John Dodge, Andrew Ramos. Updated on: February 14, 2024 / 3:53 PM CST / CBS Chicago (CBS) — A woman from Highland Park entrapped four migrants from Mexico into forced labor to pay off their “debt” for safe entry into the United States, investigators in Lake County said Wednesday. The four, who had been in the country…
Read MoreGovernor DeWine Announces Nearly $5 Million to Enhance Support for Human Trafficking Survivors
February 16, 2024 (COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Ohio Governor Mike DeWine today announced more than $4.6 million in funding to help victim service agencies meet the needs of human trafficking survivors. Thirty nonprofit organizations in 14 counties will receive funding as part of the new Direct Services for Victims of Human Trafficking Grant Program. Launched by Governor DeWine in…
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Pro-Palestinian Protestors Swarm UW Station Despite Potential I-5 Shutdown Charges
By Karina Vargas, KOMO News ReporterMon, February 12th 2024 at 9:34 PM Updated Tue, February 13th 2024 at 10:58 PM SEATTLE — More calls for an end to the war between Israel and Palestine as pro-Palestinian protestors gathered outside UW Station on Monday. This comes as several protestors could soon be charged after last month’s shutdown on I-5. After Washington…
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