Category: Status & Protections
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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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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 Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that, between March and July (2025), the agricultural workforce fell by 155,000 workers (7%). The Pew Research Center reports that, between January and July (2025), the U.S. labor force fell by 750,000 immigrant workers. Farmers, in particular, are being hit hard – not only with changes in the workforce…
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In May, the Colorado Senate passed Senate Bill 25-276 which requires all public healthcare facilities to adopt and publish policies and procedures that protect patient privacy including (1) handling requests from immigration enforcement agents, (2) restricting access to nonpublic areas and (3) ensure sensitive information such as immigration or citizenship status is not collected unless…
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This article, USDA wants to end Farm Labor Survey, published by DTN Progressive Farmer, discusses potential changes to how wages are set for temporary, migrant labor with H2A (temporary worker) visas. And, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Labor Survey (FLS) which is critical to the determination of H2A visa holder wages may be discontinued.…
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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
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Do you wonder what’s going on in Mexico in 2025 now that the US has changed its asylum practices?At minute mark 37 of this podcast, you can hear Gretchen Kuhner (ED of the NGO El Instituto para las Mujeres en la Migracion) talk about current conditions in MEX regarding enforcement, detention, sylum, etc. She mentions this: 1.…
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