TPS ENDING FOR SALVADORANS In another devastating blow to immigrants, President Trump ended TPS for nearly 200,000 El Salvadorans. Salvadorans join some 50,000 Haitians and 2,500 Nicaraguans whose TPS status was terminated under the Trump administration in 2017. The Department of Homeland Security also hinted it may soon eliminate protections for about 57,000 Hondurans. All this …
ICE ACTIVE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND ELSEWHERE
ICE ACTIVE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND ELSEWHERE ICE ACTIVE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 1/10/2018 – Claiming this latest raid was part of a 2013 investigation of 7-11 owners , ICE swooped into 7-11s convenience stores across Northern California and looking for unauthorized workers as part of President Trump’s continued crack down of illegal immigration. Thomas D Homan, …
DOS ISSUES HEIGHTENED TRAVEL WARNING TO FIVE (5) MEXICAN STATES
DOS ISSUES HEIGHTENED TRAVEL WARNING TO FIVE (5) MEXICAN STATES US ISSUES HEIGHTENED TRAVEL WARNINGS TO 5 MEXICAN STATES The US Department of State issued increased travel warnings to 5 Mexican states citing widespread violence that include homicide, kidnapping, carjacking, and robbery. The 5 states are Colima, Guerrero, Michoacan, Sinaloa, and Tamaulipas. Embattled by years of …
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TRUMP DEALT ANOTHER BLOW WITH DACA
TRUMP DEALT ANOTHER BLOW WITH DACA Judge blocks Trump’s Roll back of DACA The termination of the DACA program has been temporarily been put on hold after a US District court judge in California blocked the order. DACA was a program begun under President Obama and was aimed at protecting children brought to the US illegally …
INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEUR RULE – USCIS TO BEGIN ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
USCIS ANNOUNCES INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEUR RULE TO GO INTO EFFECT From USCIS ~ WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced today it is taking steps to implement the International Entrepreneur Rule (IER), in accordance with a recent court decision. Although the IER was published during the previous administration with an effective date of July 17, 2017, …
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TRUMP TARGETS IMMIGRANTS WHOSE DEPORTATION CASES WERE CLOSED
Exclusive: Trump targets illegal immigrants who were given reprieves from deportation by Obama The Trump administration has moved to reopen the cases of hundreds of the undocumented whose deportation cases were administratively closed, according to government data and court documents. Trump signaled in January that he planned to dramatically widen the net of illegal immigrants …
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TPS AND ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS
TPS AND ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS On March 31, 2017, a three-judge panel for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Ramirez v. Brown decided aliens granted TPS are eligible to adjust status incident to a grant of TPS status. The Ninth Circuit joins the 6th circuit in this finding. See Flores v. U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Servs., 718 F.3d …
HUGE SPIKE IN ICE ARRESTS UNDER TRUMP
HUGE SPIKE IN ICE ARRESTS UNDER TRUMP 36% SPIKE IN ICE ARRESTS SINCE TRUMP TOOK OFFICE According to the Washington Post, in the first month alone of Trump’s presidency, immigration arrests by Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement agency (ICE) have spiked sharply causing fear to spread in the immigrant community. It’s not just those with criminal …