Trumps mandate keeps on challenging immigrants

Immigration and public charge rules

New immigration determinations emerge towards the end of Trump’s mandate   The situation for immigrants is made more complex by new policies that seem not to hint at a truce. Recently, the president informed that he would seek to lower the rate of immigration to the United States through the denial of visas to all…

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Immigration Courts Backlog Now Exceeds One Million

US Courts face One Million Case Backlog

US Immigration Courts Backlog Now Exceeds One Million Cases   The immigration courts backlog now exceeds well over one million cases. This is double the amount of 516,031 cases that were active at the end of Fiscal Year 2016. By the end of August 2019, another 322,525 cases were pending that have not been added…

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Undocumented Immigrants and the Path to legal Residence

Undocumented Immigrants options

If the path to legal residence was made easier, would there be fewer undocumented immigrants in the US?   Many Americans wonder why immigrants don’t just “wait in line” to enter the United States legally or simply get in line once here illegally. The answer is that the immigration system is broken and it is…

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