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…

  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…

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…

  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…

  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…

  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…

  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…