ICE just said they didn’t actually have to. By Natasha Lennard Homeland Security’s changes to SEVIS, the Trump administration said, have no bearing on a student’s lawful nonimmigrant status. “Terminating a record in SEVIS does…
How this legal worker visa became a human trafficking scheme By Katie Nixdorf and Paul Blest In recent years, a massive scheme to traffic and exploit vulnerable agricultural workers has taken shape in the US….
By Maggie Grether The notice from the Department of the Interior arrived in the middle of the workday. Alexa Sendukas, a managing attorney at the Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project, opened her inbox to a notice…
By Isabela Dias On February 14, Kerry Doyle sat at the court in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, preparing for her new job as an immigration judge. She was excited to step into such a consequential position. Each…
By Noah Hurowitz An immigration raid in western New York on May 2 targeted a group of immigrants involved in a landmark statewide effort by farm workers to unionize. On Friday morning at around 9:30…
By Eileen Markey On May 20 housing justice groups including People’s Action, VOCAL-NY, Texas Organizing Project, Arkansas Community Organization and others rallied in DC—and in more than a dozen communities from Duluth to Akron to…
Protecting San Diego immigrant communities from ICE By Roberto Camacho In the early-morning twilight on a cool Friday in April, a half dozen people gathered in a small parking lot in the San Diego neighborhood…
A transgender immigrant’s illegal detention in Guantanamo By Mira Lazine Legal organizations filed multiple declarations last month on behalf of documented immigrants illegally sent to Guantanamo Bay (‘Gitmo’), an infamous military prison known for torturing…
No country should go through what Venezuela has been going through since 2017. By Vijay Prashad U.S.-led sanctions (more aptly referred to as Unilateral Coercive Measures, or UCMs) caused Venezuela to lose oil revenue equivalent…
Trump’s plans to undercut, privatize vets’ medical care By John Ketwig Veterans who get their health care from “The VA,” actually the cabinet-level Department of Veterans Affairs, need to be aware that the Trump administration…