Although the Biden administration’s “Keeping Families Together” program only began accepting applications last week, families and immigration attorneys say confusion, uncertainty and frustration is already mounting.
Category: Immigration
President Joe Biden calls Texas district court immigration ruling ‘wrong’
Biden decried a ruling that temporarily blocked a new administration program that would have offered legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants.
Texas judge orders pause on Biden program that offers legal status to spouses of US citizens
A federal judge in Texas on Monday ordered a temporary pause on the Biden administration’s new protections that would allow immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens a path to citizenship.
Texas, other GOP-led states sue over program to give immigrant spouses of US citizens legal status
Sixteen Republican-led states are suing to end a federal program that could potentially give nearly half a million immigrants without legal status who are married to U.S. citizens a path to citizenship.
Arrests in fatal Texas smuggling attempt climb 2 years after 53 migrants died in tractor trailer
Arrests following the 2022 deaths of 53 migrants in Texas who were left in a sweltering tractor-trailer have climbed to more than a dozen.
Biden’s offer of a path to US citizenship for spouses leaves some out
Joe Biden’s offer of a path to citizenship without having to first leave the country for up to 10 years is one of the biggest presidential orders to ease entry for immigrants since 2012
Immigrants prepare for new Biden protections with excitement and concern
Roberto Garcia crossed the border from Mexico in 2009 looking for a better life. For the past eight years, he has been married to an American woman, and they have three kids who are all American citizens.
Study reveals anti-immigrant speeches sway voters based on rhetoric and not lived experiences
As campaigns for the upcoming presidential election in November begin to sharpen their positions on immigration, a new study reveals that anti-immigrant speeches sway voters purely based on rhetoric and not lived experiences.
Chicago not expecting migrant surge ahead of DNC, city official says
Chicago’s top migrant official is walking back a prediction from city leaders last month that tens of thousands of migrants would arrive by bus ahead of next week’s Democratic National Convention, saying that there is no “credible intel” that the feared surge will occur.
Some business owners and residents near United Center, home to upcoming DNC, want nearby migrant shelter moved
A group of business owners and residents near the United Center say that they’re being negatively impacted by the hundreds of migrants who are living at a nearby shelter and are demanding that the mayor move them. Roger Romanelli, executive director of the Fulton Market Association, told reporters at a news conference Tuesday that he believed everyone should be treated with respect and dignity under the law, but claimed that it’s “chaos and anarchy” at the shelter at 1640 W. Walnut. He cited increased emergency calls to the shelter, fights in the street, garbage, drug usage and other concerns. “Right […]