On an idle Tuesday afternoon, I received the call I had always feared most: My brother had been picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The tactic the officers used was not new. My brother’s probation officer had shared his meeting time with ICE, and they had waited outside […]
Immigration
Title 42 is not an immigration law and has no place on our border
In 2020, Title 42 paused all asylum proceedings at the border as a tool to slow the spread of COVID. But two years later, the intentions behind this policy are clear: it was never really about COVID. As long as this farcical policy, spurred on by COVID and maintained by activist […]
Federal judge blocks Biden’s immigration enforcement guidance : NPR
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas at the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week. A federal judge has blocked a set of immigration enforcement priorities that Mayorkas championed. PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro […]
Biden Advocates More Legal Pathways To Reduce Illegal Immigration
President Joe Biden speaks during opening ceremony of the the 9th Summit of the Americas at the Los … [+] Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, on June 8, 2022. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images In a declaration at the Ninth Summit of […]
BAL Named a Top Immigration Law Firm, “Market Leader” by The Legal 500
DALLAS, June 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Leading immigration firm BAL ranks in the highest Tier 1 category among all immigration law firms nationwide, according to the newly released rankings by The Legal 500. BAL “remains a market leader” in immigration and “continues to advise leading names in the industry, including global blue-chip clients […]
Kansas immigrants say they face ‘unsafe and unwelcome’ state under law banning sanctuary cities
Alejandro Rangel-Lopez says fear is a given in a mixed-status household. Growing up in Dodge City with an undocumented parent, Rangel-Lopez constantly feared his father coming home with news that immigration agents had detained his mother. And he says fear of deportation kept his mother from reporting an abusive ex-husband […]
Title 42 to stay in place; NM Immigrant Law Center upset with the decision
Title 42 is staying in place despite the Biden administration’s attempt to roll back the health order put in place in March 2020. A Louisiana judge ruled asylum seekers at the border will stay at the border.There’s been a lot of back and forth on whether or not Title 42 […]
Anti-immigrant law motivated by xenophobia and racism makes Kansas less welcoming
The Kansas Reflector welcomes opinion pieces from writers who share our goal of widening the conversation about how public policies affect the day-to-day lives of people throughout our state. Huascar Medina is the poet laureate of Kansas. On Feb. 22, HB 2717 was introduced in the Kansas House of Representatives. By April […]
Immigrants face new reality and old fears under a Kansas law banning ‘sanctuary’ cities
TOPEKA — Alejandro Rangel-Lopez says fear is a given in a mixed-status household. Growing up in Dodge City with an undocumented parent, Rangel-Lopez constantly feared his father coming home with news that immigration agents had detained his mother. And he says fear of deportation kept his mother from reporting an […]
Almost all asylum-seekers in L.A. lack legal counsel, face deportation, report says
Almost everyone seeking asylum in Los Angeles immigration court has received an order of deportation, under a Biden administration program meant to speed up asylum hearings. A study by the Immigrants’ Rights Policy Clinic found that 99.1 percent of people in 449 cases completed under the Dedicated Dockets program in […]