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.
Apprehensions of illegal aliens crossing the porous southern border fell slightly from October to November, but Novebers's figures have reached the seven-year high watermark.
The House of Represen -tatives passed H.R. 8428, the Hong Kong People's Freedom and Choice Act, that would grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to nationals from Hong Kong living in the United States at the time of enactment. The bill would also ensure that Hong Kong nationals facing persecution from the Chinese government can be considered for refugee resettlement in the United States.
A federal judge, late last week, ordered the Trump administration to fully restore the DACA program, which amnesties illegal aliens brought to the U.S. as minors from deportation, included in the order was a mandate to begin accepting new applications.
An Obama-era policy, created in 2009, has turned the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands into a hot spot for birth tourism schemes, “as Chinese women flock to the islands to deliver babies who automatically become American citizens.”