An Undocumented Women’s Complicated American Pride on the Fourth of July

An Undocumented Women’s Complicated American Pride on the Fourth of July

Posted by American Immigration Council Staff// ImmigrationImpact.com My first Fourth of July was in the Texas country. Fireworks, lawn games, little American flags, burgers, and Old Navy tees—I got the full experience. As a young immigrant, I was slowly growing accustomed to the culture. I knew that the Fourth of July was a big deal because […]

Supreme Court Allows Biden Administration to Reinstitute Its Immigration Enforcement Priorities

Supreme Court Allows Biden Administration to Reinstitute Its Immigration Enforcement Priorities

by Raul Pinto// ImmigrationImpact.com Editorial credit: Smiling Satsuma / Shutterstock.com Last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in U.S. v. Texas, which allows the Biden administration to resume its implementation of guidelines for immigration enforcement within the interior of the United States, otherwise known as enforcement priorities. The Court held that the states challenging the legality […]

City of New York to sue 30 New York Counties for Illegally Walling off Their Borders to Asylum Seekers

City of New York to sue 30 New York Counties for Illegally Walling off Their Borders to Asylum Seekers

June 7, 2023 By: nyc.gov New York City Seeks to Invalidate Unlawful Executive Orders Seeking to Prohibit City from Providing Temporary Housing to Small Number of Asylum Seekers During Statewide Emergency NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Corporation Counsel Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix today announced that the City of New […]

New York City to get $104.6M from FEMA for asylum-seekers

New York City to get $104.6M from FEMA for asylum-seekers

The city’s allocation through the new federal Shelter and Services Program constitutes around 30 percent of the money announced Wednesday and is much larger than payments to other cities. By JOE ANUTA // Politico.com Editorial credit: DCStockPhotography / Shutterstock.com NEW YORK — New York City is set to receive $104.6 million in federal funds to help […]

The Immigration Storyline Ron Desantis Doesn’t Want You to Focus On

The Immigration Storyline Ron Desantis Doesn’t Want You to Focus On

AV PRESS RELEASES Editorial credit: William Hunton / Shutterstock.com Washington, DC – Yesterday, Ron DeSantis traveled to Arizona for an anti-immigration speech and garnered more attention for his latest dehumanizing political stunt to fly migrants to California. As the New York Times correctly noted, “stoking outrage is the point.” While Gov. DeSantis is clearly trying […]

Mayor Adams Declared NYC ‘Destroyed’ by Migrants, but Economics Tell a Different Story

Mayor Adams Declared NYC ‘Destroyed’ by Migrants, but Economics Tell a Different Story

From the Irish potato famine to the 1970s fiscal crisis, immigration has been key to the city’s growth in ways that are playing out again as asylum-seekers arrive. BY GREG DAVID // TheCity.nyc Editorial credit: lev radin / Shutterstock.com New York has been “destroyed by the migrant crisis,” Mayor Eric Adams claimed in April at a […]

DHS Launches Process for Afghans to Extend Permission to Stay in the US

DHS Launches Process for Afghans to Extend Permission to Stay in the US

Posted by Alex Miller // ImmigrationImpact.com Editorial credit: Procyk Radek / Shutterstock.com Time was running out for many Afghan refugees living and working in the United States after American troops withdrew from Afghanistan. Thanks to the Biden administration’s recent decision to extend what is known as “parole,” many Afghans will now be given the opportunity to […]

Internal Investigation Shows Appalling Carelessness from Border Patrol Led to Death of 8-Year-Old

Internal Investigation Shows Appalling Carelessness from Border Patrol Led to Death of 8-Year-Old

Posted by Dara Lind // The ImmirationImpact.com An internal investigation into the death of a medically vulnerable eight-year-old girl after over a week in Border Patrol custody continues to reveal shocking negligence on the part of medical contractors and Border Patrol employees. It’s becoming increasingly clear that the May 17 death of Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, an […]

Will German Americans again put Donald Trump over the top in the presidential election?

By: Per Urlaub and David Huenlich // TheConversation.com Editorial credit: Consolidated News Photos / Shutterstock.com German Americans paved Donald Trump’s road into the White House in 2016 through Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania. This ethnic group barely receives attention in American media and politics. The Midwest, home to many German Americans, is a battleground for the 2020 presidential election. […]