Attorney General Jeff Sessions limits immigration court powers, threatens due process for immigrants

TrumpMelissa SoberalskiMay 21, 2018Jeff Sessions, Department of Justice, Administrative Closure, Immigration Court, Judges

NPR fact-checks Sarah Huckabee’s claim that citizenship has been a standard census question

TrumpMelissa SoberalskiMay 15, 2018census, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, NPR, fact check, Citizenship Status

State Department alters “public charge” guidelines to penalize more immigrants

TrumpMelissa SoberalskiApril 24, 2018Department of State, Immigration Visa, Public Charge, Consulate, Interview

Trump administration eliminates “catch and release” at the border

TrumpMelissa SoberalskiApril 19, 2018Immigration, Border, Catch and Release, Asylum

Trump’s DHS considers proposal to penalize immigrants who receive most types of public benefits

TrumpMelissa SoberalskiApril 10, 2018Immigration, Green Card, Benefits, Penalty

U.S. State Department hopes to begin collecting immigrants’ social media handles

TrumpMelissa SoberalskiApril 2, 2018Social Media, Immigration, Visa, Surveillance

Under threat from the Trump administration, immigrants rush to submit visa petitions for family abroad

TrumpMelissa SoberalskiFebruary 22, 2018immigration, Family, Visas, Law

Trump administration seeks creation of a National Vetting Center to screen immigrants

TrumpMelissa SoberalskiFebruary 18, 2018Immigration, Vetting, Screening, DHS

DHS has outlined new potential rules aimed at barring a pathway to legal residence for immigrants who receive benefits or aid to dependents.

In what is being critiqued as one avenue of attack against legal immigration, the Trump administration is considering a new policy that would target foreign-born people living in the U.S. who have received, or have U.S. citizen children who have received, public assistance. The policy would allow immigration officials to consider a broad range of public benefits programs as potential disqualifiers for immigrants pursuing legal residency, thus cutting off hundreds of thousands from legal status and even a pathway to citizenship. We want to emphasize that this document is not yet law, but rather a draft proposal of potential new rules.