Category: Executive & Enforcement
-
This policy alert from USCIS (August 19, 2025) clarifies that discretion that can be used to deny US immigration status changes (for example a green card holder who is applying to become a US citizen) if the individual has “support(ed) or promote(d) anti-American ideologies or activities.”
-
ICE is asking detainees to sign a stipulation (document) which says they agree to be deported without a judicial hearing. The National Immigration Project provides an ICE Stipulation Explainer which includes this information in both English and Spanish:
-
Third-country deportees have already been sent to South Sudan and Eswatini and Rwanda may take up to 250 deportees from third-countries who refuse to take them back. Read more @ Border Report Matsapha Correctional Facility in Eswatini
-
The new report explains how the Trump administration is using a longstanding loophole to circumvent sanctuary policies and obscure the full scale of its immigration actions. July 30, 2025 This morning, the Prison Policy Initiative released Hiding in Plain Sight, a report revealing the crucial role that locally-run jails are playing in President Trump’s program of mass…
-
WASHINGTON – Today, the Justice Department published a list of states, cities, and counties identified as having policies, laws, or regulations that impede enforcement of federal immigration laws. “Sanctuary policies impede law enforcement and put American citizens at risk by design,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “The Department of Justice will continue bringing litigation against…
-
DACA (Deferred Access for Childhood Arrivals) protects 500,000+ people from over 100 countries of origin. There is some confusion about whether people with this status can be deported or not. Read on NPR Here: https://www.npr.org/2025/07/29/nx-s1-5482923/dhs-daca-recipients-self-deport
-
Trump Administration Orders Massive Expansion of GPS Ankle Monitors for Immigrants by Austin Kocher Ankle monitors could double taxpayer costs to $500,000 per day despite nearly 100% compliance for people in ICE’s alternatives to detention program. Read on Substack https://substack.com/embedjs/embed.js
-
Based on a law that was passed by Congress in 2005 and revised procedurally in 2020, the federal government (CBP and ICE) is now collecting DNA samples from non-citizen and, as of April 2025, over 2.6 million samples have been collected. From each sample, the FBI creates a profile and enters it into CODIS – a…
-
The federal government is raising immigration-related fees over the course of the next few months. These new fees are summarized in this National Immigrant Justice Center explainer and include fees for changes of status applications, work permit applications, court fees, annual fees. There is a handy chart at the bottom of the explainer which summarizes…
Immigration Insight 