Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

August 26, 2019 at 2:38 PM

Noorani’s Notes: Rational Policy

  The Trump administration is seeking to give the Department of Justice (DOJ) unprecedented power over immigration courts, writes Richard Gonzales at NPR. Under a new policy, which goes into effect today, the director of the Executive Office for Immigration Re…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

August 23, 2019 at 2:52 PM

Noorani's Notes: Hoosier Journey

  Welcome to the Friday edition of Noorani’s Notes. Recent Trump administration hardline immigration policies face fresh court challenges, The Economist reports. These moves have all inspired — or are about to trigger — legal challenges: (1) barring foreign n…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

August 22, 2019 at 2:49 PM

Noorani's Notes: DACA Uncertain

  Nearly 2,200 Central American migrants who have been awaiting their U.S. immigration hearing dates in Mexico have turned instead to the U.S. State Department’s “Assisted Voluntary Return” program, per Mica Rosenberg, Kristina Cooke and Daniel Trotta at Reute…

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  Dan Gordon, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

August 21, 2019 at 8:50 PM

Rule Would Undermine Protections for Migrant Children

National Immigration Forum For Immediate Release       Contact: Dan Gordon, 202-383-5996 Aug. 21, 2019 DHS Announces Rule That Would Undermine Protections for Migrant Children WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today the Department of Homeland Security announced it…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

August 21, 2019 at 2:55 PM

Noorani's Notes: The U Visa Catch

  In their eagerness to issue the new “public charge” rule, the Trump administration apparently wrote it in such a way that it treats immigrants married to U.S. citizens more harshly than those married to noncitizens. One example: immigrants who are married to…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

August 20, 2019 at 2:36 PM

Noorani's Notes: “No Comment”

  The context for President Trump’s biggest issue, immigration, is completely different in 2019 than it was in 2015. The National Review’s Michael Brendan Dougherty writes, “Today it’s nativism rather than uncontrolled migration that is prominently associated …

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

August 19, 2019 at 2:15 PM

Noorani’s Notes: Bake Sales

  Stephen Miller’s trajectory from a high school student in Santa Monica, California, to an influential anti-immigrant hawk in the Donald Trump White House traces larger public policy changes and forces at play in recent decades, Jason DeParle writes in the Ne…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

August 16, 2019 at 2:38 PM

Noorani’s Notes: Climb the Ladder

  Welcome to Friday’s edition of Noorani’s Notes. The U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed Thursday that the Trump administration is responsible for providing the most basic sanitary supplies to children in immigrant detention — including “soap, towels, showers, dr…

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  Christian Penichet-Paul · [email protected]

August 15, 2019 at 9:29 PM

Legislative Bulletin - Thursday, August 15, 2019

Hello all, The National Immigration Forum's Legislative Bulletin for Thursday, August 15, 2019 is now posted. We'll publish our next bulletin on Thursday, August 29, 2019.  You can find the online version of the bulletin here: https://immigrationforum.org/article/legislative-bulletin-thur…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

August 15, 2019 at 2:30 PM

Noorani’s Notes: Filing Suit

  Cordelia Scaife May, a Mellon family heiress, “was far and away the most important donor to the modern anti-immigration movement during her lifetime,” write Nicholas Kulish and Mike McIntire in an exhaustive investigation for the New York Times. May died 14 …

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

August 14, 2019 at 2:11 PM

Noorani’s Notes: "The Kiddo"

  The Wall Street Journal editorial board came out against the Trump administration’s “public charge” rule – which, when it goes into effect, will allow the government to deny legal status to immigrants if they need government benefits such as food stamps. Not…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

August 13, 2019 at 2:14 PM

Noorani’s Notes: Personal Care

  The Trump administration’s new “public charge” rule, scheduled to go into effect 60 days after being published, would “dramatically change the lives of immigrants and the course of immigration to the U.S.,” I told PBS NewsHour’s Laura Santhanam for her detai…

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  Cathleen Farrell, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

August 12, 2019 at 4:57 PM

Public Charge Rule Will Have Chilling Effect on Immigrant Families

National Immigration Forum For Immediate Release       Contact: Cathleen Farrell, 202-403-4190 Aug. 12, 2019 Public Charge Rule Will Have Chilling Effect on Immigrant Families WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration will publish its final “publi…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

August 12, 2019 at 2:38 PM

Noorani’s Notes: Play On

  Before we get started with today’s Notes, some breaking news: The Trump administration filed its “public charge” final rule with the Federal Register this morning. Our initial explainer on the implications of this rule is here. More tomorrow. On Friday, lea…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

August 9, 2019 at 2:22 PM

Noorani’s Notes: “Their doors are locked”

  The Trump administration is defending Wednesday’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Mississippi, even as “images of weeping children arriving home to find their parents missing” lead to public outrage and concerns by state officials and…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

August 8, 2019 at 2:25 PM

Noorani’s Notes: The Children

  In what is being called the largest workplace raid in a decade, 680 immigrants were arrested yesterday at numerous chicken processing plants in Mississippi. Just as President Trump visited El Paso and Dayton, the Mississippi raids occurred in small towns whe…

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  Ali Noorani, National Immigration Forum · [email protected]

August 7, 2019 at 2:36 PM

Noorani’s Notes: Alamance County

  In the aftermath of the El Paso shooting this weekend that was motivated by white nationalist and anti-immigrant invective, Latinos throughout the country find themselves confronting basic questions about their role and safety in American society, The New Yo…

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August 7, 2019 at 2:42 AM

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