Vice President-Elect, Kamala Harris recently outlined the immigration goals of the Biden Administration in an interview with Univision. The plan includes an eight-year "pathway to citizenship" for illegal aliens, even shorter pathway for TPS and Dreamers, more refugees, more temporary workers, and less protection for Americans and already present immigrants.
The 4th U.S. Circuit of Appeals has upheld a ban on an executive order by President Trump which aimed to give state and local governments the ability to refuse refugees.
This legislation, if passed, would amend the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act and require all employers in the United States to begin using the free and easy to use E-Verify system to screen all potential new hires.
This legislation, if passed, would amend the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act to prevent children born to illegal-alien parents in the United States from automatically receiving U.S. citizenship, following a more true interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
This legislation, if passed, would amend the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act to criminalize visa overstays, with limited exceptions given on a case-by-case basis for medical necessity, public safety, and/or national security.
The White House has extended the ban on some migrants coming to the U.S. through work-based visas and green cards, this time through the end of March 2021.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Monday the latest results of a national enforcement effort called "Operation Broken Promise," targeting aliens who promised to voluntarily leave the country - but never did, for arrest and removal.
Late last Friday, Texas Senator Ted Cruz blocked a current bill that would effectively create an asylum pipeline for millions of Hong Kong citizens to come to the U.S. under Temporary Protection Status.
On Monday, the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs passed S. 2162 the "Securing America's Borders Act of 2019," allowing the bill to continue through the legislative process.
On December 15, 2020, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that the United States and El Salvador have concluded the implementation accords for the Asylum Cooperative Agreement (ACA) signed in September 2019.