Immigration Blog

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DHS Proposes to Amend Asylum Work-Permit Rules to Reduce Fraud and Abuse

CIS submitted a comment supporting DHS’s efforts to restore efficiency and integrity to the asylum system

Topics: Asylum, Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

Miami: A Failure of the Assimilation Model

Two-thirds of residents speak Spanish at home, including half of the native-born in their 20s

Topics: Florida, Assimilation and Citizenship

Latest Harvard/Harris Poll Shows (Extremely) Modest Bump for ‘Mass Deportation’

While large majority of voters believe Democrats favor ‘open borders’

Topics: Polls and Surveys

D.C. Circuit Shoots Down Trump Border Asylum Ban

Case now moves to SCOTUS

Topics: Asylum

BIA Issues (Unique and Complicated) DACA Order

Ignore the hype — the Board is simply telling immigration judges that they must comply with a Biden-era rule before terminating cases involving aliens with ‘deferred action’

Topics: Immigration Courts, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)

NYT: Trump II Push to Denaturalize Hundreds of Foreign-Born Citizens

U.S. citizenship is precious, and those who attempt to steal it should be punished as an example to others

Topics: Visa Fraud, Marriage Fraud, Assimilation and Citizenship

Excerpt: The Case for Denaturalization

How to make citizenship great again.

Topics: Assimilation and Citizenship

Ninth Circuit Blocks California’s ICE ID Law

Doomed from the start, but then it was likely just a ‘message bill’

Topics: Sanctuary Cities, California, Attrition and Enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

11th Circuit Vacates District Court ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Injunction

Refreshing finding that the INA means what it says when it comes to courts’ jurisdiction

Topics: Florida, Attrition and Enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Has There Been a ‘Minneapolis Effect’ on Immigration Enforcement?

ICE ‘interior arrests’ decrease 21.7 percent between December and March

Topics: Attrition and Enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)