Trinidad and Tobago Migrant Found Dead After 4 Years in ICE Detention

Trinidad and Tobago Migrant Found Dead After 4 Years in ICE Detention

Editorial credit: Grossinger / Shutterstock.com By Sunita Sohrabji | Ethnic Media Services More than 160 detained migrants have embarked on a hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, following the death of a migrant who had been held there for more than four years. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed that Charles Leo […]

Differences in State Sunshine Laws Can Threaten Transparency Around Immigration Detention and Enforcement

Differences in State Sunshine Laws Can Threaten Transparency Around Immigration Detention and Enforcement

By Raul Pinto | Immigration Impact The main way in which the public can access information about what the federal government is doing is through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). However, laws that allow the public to get state public records, also known as sunshine laws or public records laws, are different from state […]

Adult Migrants Limited to 30-Day Stay in ‘Right-to-Shelter’ Settlement

Adult Migrants Limited to 30-Day Stay in ‘Right-to-Shelter’ Settlement

Migrants wait in line outside the St. Brigid shelter re-ticketing site in the East Village, Dec. 7, 2023. Credit: Gwynne Hogan/THE CITY By Gwynne Hogan New York City can restrict shelter stays for adult migrants to a single 30-day placement, with extensions granted only under “extenuating circumstances,” according to the terms of a settlement reached Friday between city […]

Chinese Migration to US is Nothing New – But the Reasons for Recent Surge at Southern Border Are

Chinese Migration to US is Nothing New – But the Reasons for Recent Surge at Southern Border Are

Editorial credit: David Peinado Romero / Shutterstock.com By Meredith Oyen | March 11, 2024 | The Conversation The brief closure of the Darien Gap – a perilous 66-mile jungle journey linking South American and Central America – in February 2024 temporarily halted one of the Western Hemisphere’s busiest migration routes. It also highlighted its importance to […]

Immigrants are Less Likely to Commit Crimes than U.S.-born Americans, Studies Find

Immigrants are Less Likely to Commit Crimes than U.S.-born Americans, Studies Find

By Jasmine Garsd | WLIW The murder of Laken Riley took center stage during Thursday night’s State of the Union address. Riley was a 22-year-old student who was killed last month at the University of Georgia. The suspect in her murder is a Venezuelan migrant whom officials say was illegally in the U.S. During the Republican rebuttal, […]

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