By America’s Voice | February 9, 2024 Washington, DC —On a press call held today, leaders from immigration and Latino-focused organizations joined with the Congressional Integrity Project to assess the details and implications of a busy week on immigration policy and politics – including what the right lessons are from the failed impeachment vote of DHS Secretary […]
By American Immigration Council Staff | February 9, 2024 Black immigrants not only contribute to America’s rich political and cultural history—think rapper Wyclef Jean, U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, or basketball’s Hakeem “The Dream” Olajuwon, to name but a very few—they also play an important and growing role in our economy, making outsize contributions in industries […]
By Adriel Orozco | Immigration Impact U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) finalized its long-awaited fee rule on January 30, which impacts the filing costs for almost all the agency’s applications. The new fees will take effect April 1, 2024. The agency’s fee increases significantly impact the cost for family-based and employment-based applications and petitions. In addition, […]
By Adriel Orozco | Immigration Impact The “Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024” was released on February 4. For months, a bipartisan group of senators negotiated the compromise bill, which proposes significant changes to asylum and border policy to release billions in foreign military aid. The $118 billion bill would provide the president a new emergency expulsion authority […]
By Taylor Wilson A group of bipartisan senators revealed a proposal Sunday targeting America’s southern border and pivotal foreign aid. At the border the agreement would expand detention and speed up humanitarian asylum programs. It would also make it harder for people to qualify for asylum. It would create a pathway to citizenship for documented […]
By Gabe Ortiz | February 6, 2024 | America’s Voice Apparently it’s not enough for House Republicans to continue lurching forward with their baseless, unprecedented impeachment effort against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It appears they want to kick him out of the country he serves as well. Tucked in Republicans’ final report is language […]
By Amir Khafagy | February 5, 2024 | Documented When New York City’s minimum wage law for app-based delivery workers came into effect in December, workers were guaranteed a minimum wage of at least $17.96 per hour. Yet advocates and delivery workers say that apps like UberEats, DoorDash, and Grubhub have been finding ways to avoid paying the […]
Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) is supporting a plan approved earlier this month by the state’s Civil Service Commission that could help fill many of the roughly 10,000 unfilled positions within state agencies. The effort would speed up the process for both qualified New Yorkers and new migrants who have legal permission to work to apply for state […]
By Raul Pinto | February 2, 2024 | Immigration Impact The Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (OIG) published a report last month finding that nearly one-third of medical procedures performed on immigrants in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody were not properly authorized. The report found that ICE improperly authorized […]
By Adriel Orozco | January 31, 2024 | Immigration Impact Immigrants are now far more likely to face the complexities of the immigration court system alone, without an attorney. As of December 2023, only 30% of immigrants with pending cases have secured representation, down from 65% just four years ago. This new data comes from […]