Category: Status & Protections
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The CATO Institute has prepared this detailed report, Why Legal Immigration is Nearly Impossible, about US immigration’s (permanent) visas and their limitations.
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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.
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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:
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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…
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Some student visas have been revoked by the US State Department and they are unable to leave the country without forefeiting their return.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.
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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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