Category: Dept of Homeland Security
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Intelligencer has written this article (The New Court Tactic Helping ICE Deport Immigrants) about how federal prosecutors are dismissing immigration cases in court which renders the person seeking relief unauthorized and open to deportation. ICE, in the courthouse, can detain these immigrants.
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WASHINGTON— The Department of Homeland Security is announcing a final rule, effective Oct. 2, 2025, to streamline the filing process for certain temporary agricultural worker petitions.The new rule allows U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to begin processing petitions for H-2A temporary agricultural workers while the Department of Labor reviews the requested employment to ensure it would…
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In this article and 28-minute video, the Border Report (reporters Rudy Mireles and Sandra Sanchez) from Harlingen, Texas provides a quick explainer of some immigration basics: Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection, Title 8 (US Immigration Law), ICE, family separations, immigration courts, and a former immigration judge talking about reviewing the cases of unaccompanied minors.…
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The Center for Immigration Studies Executive Director, Mark Krikorian, interviewed the Director of USCIS, Jospeh Edlow. Watch the video of the conversation here. Topics covered include: asylum abuse, new screening and vetting measures, Temporary Protected Status (TPS), chain migration, and fraud.
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This article says that international student enrollment in universities in the United States is down 19% this year to 313,000 for their freshman year.
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The International Refugee Assistance Project has published this Explainer on the Travel Ban which : Prohibits the entry of immigrants and nonimmigrants into the U.S. from these 12 countries:● Afghanistan● Burma● Chad● Republic of the Congo● Equatorial Guinea● Eritrea● Haiti● Iran● Libya● Somalia● Sudan● Yemen Prohibits entry of immigrants and some nonimmigrants from these 7…
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The American Immigration Council posted a summary of a new BIA (Board of Immigration Appeals) decision which requires people who crossed the border unlawfuly to be subject to mandatory detention and ineligible or bond release. Read their explanation here.
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Today, we are sharing ICE records on Palantir that show how the company has long been enmeshed in the day-to-day operations fueling ICE surveillance and deportations. These records were obtained via a FOIA lawsuit filed in 2019. The documents include emails, training guides and progress reports between Palantir and ICE spanning 2014-2022.The records show how…
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Here is a September, 2025 conversation between Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies and Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks about recent changes at the southern border.
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NBC News has published this article and video , Under Trump Administration, ICE scraps paperwork officers once had to do before immigration arrests. This signals a change in the background research that ICE agents had done in the past to conduct a raid and what is now being required. Targeted arrests might be the result…
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