Immigration News

International adoption community plunged into worry over citizenship crackdown

by Jim Hacking | September 13, 2019

The day Lillian Williams turned 14, she visited the DMV to go through a rite of passage for American teens — obtaining a learner’s permit. Instead of leaving with... VIEW POST

USCIS Is Using Fake Social Media Accounts to Check People Entering The Country

by Jim Hacking | September 3, 2019

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers can now create fictitious social media accounts to monitor social media information on foreigners seeking visas, green cards and citizenship. An updated Homeland... VIEW POST

Attorney General Barr promotes immigration judges with high asylum denial rates

by Jim Hacking | August 26, 2019

The Trump administration has promoted six judges to the immigration appeals court that sets binding policy for deportation cases — all of whom have high rates of denying immigrants’... VIEW POST

Why War Refugees Who Helped Revive St. Louis Are Leaving

by Jim Hacking | August 19, 2019

It took Beriz Nukic about two years after landing on a new continent as a war refugee to open his own business. Mr. Nukic learned English on the fly,... VIEW POST

Trump administration halts visas for same-sex partners of diplomats, UN employees

by Jim Hacking |

President Donald Trump's administration began denying visas to the unmarried, same-sex partners of foreign diplomats, officials and employees of the United Nations this week — making marriage a requirement... VIEW POST

Trump Official Revises Statue of Liberty Poem to Defend Rule Change

by Jim Hacking | August 14, 2019

The iconic poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, written in 1883 by New York-born poet Emma Lazarus, has been changed by Ken Cuccinelli. The original line of the... VIEW POST

How a Trump construction crew has relied on immigrants without legal status

by Jim Hacking | August 9, 2019

For nearly two decades, the Trump Organization has relied on a roving crew of Latin American employees to build fountains and waterfalls, sidewalks and rock walls at the company’s winery... VIEW POST