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  • Immigration Crackdown Hurting Agriculture

    The Washington Post’s Lauren Kaori Gurley reported that “the Trump administration said that its immigration crackdown is hurting farmers and risking higher food prices for Americans by cutting off agriculture’s labor supply.” Concerns: Immigration crackdowns are creating instability in the agricultural workforce which threatens (1) the stability of domestic food production and (2) prices for US…

  • DHS Ends Automatic Extension of Employment Authorization

    DHS will no longer allow for an automatic extension of EAD (Employment Authorization Document) without vetting individual cases. Find access to more information and the interim final rule here.

  • Unauthorized by the numbers

    Here are two good resources from Migration Policy Institute about unauthorized residents in the U.S.: Fact Sheet: Changing Origins, Rising Numbers Data Profiles of Unauthorized Residents by State

  • Why Legal Immigration is Nearly Impossible

    The CATO Institute has prepared this detailed report, Why Legal Immigration is Nearly Impossible, about US immigration’s (permanent) visas and their limitations.

  • ICE details 13-year old in Virginia

    This article explains why ICE is detaining a 13 year-old boy (whose family in Massachusetts has a pending asylum case) in Virginia’s Northwest Regional Juvenile Detention Facility in Winchester.

  • FY 2024 Temporary Work Visas and Green Card priorities

    USA Facts has written this article which summarizes the Temporary Work visas issued during FY2024’and explains the priorities given to green card applications. Total Temporary Work Visas issued during FY2024 were:

  • Trump Administration Eases H-2A Application Process and Lowers Wages for Guest Farmworkers

    25% of all agricultural workers are immigrants residents without work authorization while a higher percent of fruits and vegetable harvesting (closer to 40%) is done by unauthorized workers. The H-2A (temporary agricultural visa) is undergoing significant changes – which will simplifiy the application process (throught USCIS) and allow for lower wages (via the Department of…

  • Over 200 students trapped in the US

    Some student visas have been revoked by the US State Department and they are unable to leave the country without forefeiting their return. This article describes the situation and explains that some of these students have filed a lawsuit against the federal govenment for revoking their visas.

  • DHS announces H-2A (Temporary Agricultural Worker) Process Streamlined

    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…

  • A Conversation with USCIS Director Joseph Edlow

    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.