(Im)migration and Refugee History, Rights & Countering Xenophobia

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U.S. Visa Law & Policy United States immigration laws enacted by Congress provide authority over immigration and visa related matters, including entry and exit of all travelers across the nation’s borders. Immigration laws, including the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA) in Title 8 of the United States Code with amendments, as well as additional laws, control U.S. visa processing and issuance

Your Rights and Protections If you are coming to the United States as a temporary visitor for employment or education, as the foreign-citizen fiancé(e) or spouse of a U.S. citizen, or as the foreign-citizen spouse of a lawful permanent resident (LPR), as provided by U.S. immigration laws, we welcome you to this country. For many temporary visitors coming to the United States to work or study and for many immigrants, we are aware that English may not be your native language and that you may not be familiar with U.S. laws. Therefore, we want to make certain you are aware that, if you should encounter problems in the United States, such as abuse or domestic violence, for example, you have rights under U.S. laws, and you can get help.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposes to amend its regulations governing the affidavit of support requirements under section 213A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA or the Act).

ICE ERO Houston announced that nine individuals were arrested between November 1, 2020, and December 31, 2020, in the greater Houston area as part of a recent enforcement action targeting individuals who had unlawfully reentered the U.S. after having previously been removed.

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Through which visa categories can immigrants move temporarily or permanently to the United States? What are the main channels by which people come, and who can sponsor them for a green card? Are there limits on visa categories? And who is waiting in the green-card backlog? This explainer answers basic questions about temporary and permanent immigration via family, employment, humanitarian, and other channels.

Immigration law refers to the rules established by the federal government for determining who is allowed to enter the country, and for how long.

Learn about United States immigration law from the NYC Bar Legal Referral Service. Find the right immigration lawyer to answer your questions.

Make the Road New York builds the power of immigrant and working class communities to achieve dignity and justice.

Motion Law. Your Immigration Attorneys in Washington DC. For all your Family or Business immigration needs. Schedule your Free Consultation (202) 918-1799

Indiana and Chicago immigration lawyers provide legal aid for immigrants and asylum seekers, fight for fair immigration reform and an end to inhumane immigration detention.

Established in 1979, the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is one of the leading organizations in the U.S. exclusively dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of immigrants with low income. At NILC, we believe that all people who live in the U.S. should have the opportunity to achieve their full potential. Over the years, we’ve been at the forefront of many of the country’s greatest challenges when it comes to immigration issues, and we play a major leadership role in addressing the real-life impact of policies that affect the ability of low-income immigrants to prosper and thrive. In April 2019, NILC finalized a new strategic framework, which will govern our work over the next five years. This framework represents a shift in our strategy orientation in recognition of the fact that legal and policy strategies alone are not enough to achieve the long-term transformational change we believe the times require. We will continue to use our litigation and policy expertise to challenge unjust laws and policies that marginalize low-income and other vulnerable immigrant communities and advance systemic policy solutions that make it possible for immigrants and their loved ones to thrive. But we are now also focusing on building a stronger, more inclusive immigrant justice movement and fostering intersectional alliances with other communities in order to amass the political power necessary to hold decisionmakers accountable for making policy changes real and lasting. And we will also engage in narrative and culture change to shift public debate toward the notion that—no matter where a person is born or how much money they have—everyone has a stake and constructive role to play in shaping the country’s future.

The National Immigration Project is a national membership organization of lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers working to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants in the United States.

Northwest Immigrant Rights Project promotes justice by defending and advancing the rights of immigrants through direct legal services, systemic/Users/miguel/Local Documents/nwirp-temp/index.html advocacy, and community education.

The Council strives for a fair and just immigration system.

A Criminal Defense article by Ilona Bray.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is charged with enforcing U.S. federal laws concerning border control, customs, trade, and immigration. Immigrants dealing

"In 2007, Saket Soni received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker inside a Mississippi labor camp. He and 500 other men were living in squalor in Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid portable toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Worse, lured by the promise of good work and green cards, the men had desperately scraped together up to 20,000 dollars each to apply for this "opportunity" to rebuild oil rigs after Hurricane Katrina, putting their families into impossible debt. Soni traces the workers' extraordinary escape; their march on foot to Washington, DC; and their 31-day hunger strike to bring attention to their cause"--

Documents obtained by a coalition of immigrant rights groups reveal ICE has contracted with the third-party data broker LexisNexis, allowing it to receive real-time jail booking data from sheriff’s offices in the state of Colorado. The move to track the whereabouts of immigrants curtails Colorado’s sanctuary policies, which are meant to prevent state and local law enforcement from cooperating with ICE. Jacinta González of Mijente’s #NoTechForICE campaign said, ”ICE agents once relied on the police to help them track us, arrest us, and deport us. Now, tech companies, by selling our personal data, are helping them instead.”

By all accounts, November 2021 will be a consequential month for presidential elections in Latin America and the Caribbean. During this month, presidential elections will include Nicaragua on November 7, Chile on November 21, and Honduras on November 27. It should also be noted that Haiti was scheduled for November 7 before the current transitional government decided to delay elections once again to the second half of 2022. Since the beginning of the pandemic, numerous elections at all levels have taken place in the region to some degree of success as noted by the Organization of American States (OAS). However, this month’s presidential elections will impact a new constitutional process as well as the worst humanitarian crises in the region with implications to immigration and regional balance of power.

Migrants at the US-Mexico border say the new app often struggles to recognise darker-skinned faces.

Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US's history of settler colonialism, genocide, white supremacy, slavery, and structural inequality, all of which we still grapple with today. She explains that the idea that we are living in a land of opportunity--founded and built by immigrants--was a convenient response by the ruling class and its brain trust to the 1960s demands for decolonialization, justice, reparations, and social equality. Moreover, Dunbar-Ortiz charges that this feel good--but inaccurate--story promotes a benign narrative of progress, obscuring that the country was founded in violence as a settler state, and imperialist since its inception. While some of us are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, others are descendants of white settlers who arrived as colonizers to displace those who were here since time immemorial, and still others are descendants of those who were kidnapped and forced here against their will. This paradigm shifting new book from the highly acclaimed author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States charges that we need to stop believing and perpetuating this simplistic and a historical idea and embrace the real (and often horrific) history of the United States.