The program, lauded as one of the biggest presidential actions to help immigrant families in years, allowed undocumented spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens to apply for a green card without first having to leave the country.
For nondocumented spouses of U.S. citizens, the path to obtaining legal status has typically involved a mountain of paperwork and a trip back to their home countries. The Biden Administration’s Keeping Families Together program looked to alleviate some of that burden.
The inefficient administration of current United States immigration policy has made it progressively difficult for businesses and universities to retain the skilled professionals they need.
Immigration has become a source of fright and frustration for voters in this presidential election — with possible outcomes that could take the United States down two dramatically different paths.
Two of Indiana’s top elected leaders on Thursday announced they’ve requested federal aid in scrutinizing the citizenship status of more than 585,000 registered Hoosier voters — more than one in 10 residents on the voter rolls.
At stake in the long legal battle playing out at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the future of about 535,000 people who have long-established lives in the U.S., even though they don’t hold citizenship or legal residency status and they could eventually be deported. The case is likely to wind up at the Supreme Court.
A federal judge in Texas on Monday paused a Biden administration policy that would give spouses of U.S. citizens legal status without having to first leave the country, dealing at least a temporary setback to one of the biggest presidential actions to ease a path to citizenship in years.
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, and now stretch to Central America, following years of investigations into the deadliest smuggling attempt from the U.S.-Mexico border.
Despite other cities repeal their “sanctuary city” ordinances following Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita’s legal actions, Monroe County is continuing to fight the lawsuit.
Fifteen states, including Indiana, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the Biden administration over a rule that is expected to allow 100,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to enroll next year in the federal Affordable Care Act’s health insurance.
A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco suggests the immigrant population is significantly boosting the number of workers in the U. S. labor market, giving the country a little more room to breathe as it continues marching through the post-pandemic era.
Earlier this month the Office of the Attorney General filed a lawsuit against the city of East Chicago for for allegedly not complying with federal immigration laws. Yesterday it voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit.
Border Patrol agents are breaking from a practice in effect since 1997 by no longer asking migrants if they fear deportation. President Joe Biden’s administration suspended asylum at the border last month and doesn’t ask about fears.
Just days after filing a lawsuit against the City of East Chicago, Indiana’s Office of the Attorney General is now suing Monroe County over its local immigration policy.
The Office of the Attorney General filed a lawsuit Monday against the City of East Chicago for allegedly not complying with federal immigration laws.
An asylum halt at the U.S. southern border, which took effect June 5 and has led to a 40% decline in arrests for illegal crossings, applies to all nationalities. But it falls hardest on those most susceptible to deportation — specifically, Mexicans and others Mexico agrees to take (Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans).
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants had reason to rejoice when President Joe Biden unveiled a highly expansive plan to extend legal status to spouses of U.S. citizens but, inevitably, some were left out.
Some Indiana immigration attorneys are wondering what the order’s ultimate impact will be for recent arrivals to the U.S. residing in the state, given the confusion about current immigration law regarding asylum and the crushing backlog of cases in the country’s immigration courts.
The White House announced Tuesday that the Biden administration will, in the coming months, allow certain spouses of U.S. citizens without legal status to apply for permanent residency and eventually citizenship.
The lawsuit — filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and others on behalf of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center and the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, or RAICES — is the first test of the legality of Biden’s sweeping crackdown on the border.