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The decision to not redesignate TPS puts at least 7,000 more Syrian nationals right back into this conflict zone. President Trump’s repeated, unsuccessful attempts to end the entire program show blatant disregard for human life. Sending Syrian nationals back to their country amounts to a death sentence. By Melissa Cruz | Read More »
US Citizens Caught in Immigration Dragnet As Enforcement Gets More Aggressive According to a report released in July that analyzes ICE enforcement data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), there has been a striking increase in the number of U.S. citizens “encountered” by ICE during the Trump years. By Walter Ewing | Read More »
Attorney General Barr Rolls Back Asylum Protections for Families Despite the courts granting such “family-based” asylum claims for years, in Matter of L-E-A-, Barr declared that membership in a family would generally not qualify as “membership in a particular social group” for the purposes of asylum law. This essentially means that families are not “social groups” under the law. By Aaron Reichlin-Melnick | Read More »
Immigrants and Their Children Founded Almost Half of All US Fortune 500 Companies A study from New American Economy reveals that nearly 45 percent of all Fortune 500 companies in the nation had at least one founder who was an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. 101 companies on the coveted list were founded by immigrants and an additional 122 were founded by the children of immigrants. By Walter Ewing | Read More » Why a Safe Third Country Agreement with Guatemala is Unsafe and Unworkable Framed by the president as a “Safe Third Country” agreement, this move will place thousands of asylum seekers at risk in a country ill-prepared to process a high volume of applications for protection and with safety problems of its own. By Royce Murray | Read More » |
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