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Recently there has been a spike in the number of detentions and asylum applicants in the US which has led to growth in the need for AIDPs (Alternatives to Detention Programs). Due to a lack of adequate detention facilities, the DRO (Office of Detention and Removal Operations) needed a more consistent national policy about the …
The process that was formerly referred to as Deportation’ is now called Removal’, it compels foreign nationals whom the Government deems unworthy of residency to leave the country for a prolonged period. There are a variety of reasons for the U.S. Customs and Immigration Services to remove someone. Any foreign nationals who have entered the …
42b Cancellation of Removal: Avoiding “Deportation” Read More »
Together with the original DACA program that was announced in June 2012—would allow approximately 5 million unauthorized parents and DREAMers to gain temporary protection from deportation and the opportunity to apply for a work permit. Over this same period, the U.S. gross domestic product would increase cumulatively by $230 billion, and an average of 29,000 jobs would be created each …
The Growing Electorate Directly Affected by DACA Read More »
On Columbus Day, put aside anti-immigrant rhetoric and reflect on immigrants’ contributions to America. Thousands and thousands of years ago, there were no people at all in the Americas. Then, during the last great Ice Age, nomads crossed over a land bridge from Asia to what is now Alaka. These early hunters wandered here more …
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tens of thousands of children in El Salvador flee their homes each year to escape gang violence, and the government is “either unwilling or unable” to protect them from persecution, a U.S.-based advocacy group said on Thursday. Refugees International said El Salvador had not publicly acknowledged the leading role gangs …
Minors Crossing Mexican Border More Likely to Be Stopped Read More »
USCIS has accounted for over 99 percent of the approximately 2,600 identified invalid work permits requiring return. Twenty-two of the approximately 2,600 recipients failed to return their work permits or certify good cause for not doing so by the deadline of July 30, 2015. As a result, those 22 have been terminated from DACA. The recall …
Update for DACA Recipients Who Got 3-Year Work Permits Read More »
Trump Stance on Immigrants Is Misguided and Likely Ineffective MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s government on Wednesday slammed U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s proposals to deport undocumented immigrants en masse and make Mexicans pay for a wall separating the two countries as absurd, racist and ignorant. Launching his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in …
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