⚠ URGENT: Time Is Critical Under the Trump Administration’s intensified enforcement policy, immigration courts are processing cases faster than ever. Missing even one court date can result in an automatic order of removal in absentia — meaning you are deported without ever seeing a judge. Act on every step in this guide immediately. What Is […]
If you or a loved one is in immigration removal proceedings — or could be subject to removal based on fraud or misrepresentation in a past immigration application — a recent decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) has significantly changed the landscape. Matter of Forjoe, 29 I&N Dec. 463 (BIA 2026), decided February […]
On September 19, 2025, President Trump once again imposed restrictions on a class of immigrants: H1-Bs, the class of visa used by employers to bring in high-skilled workers. The H1-B visa program is for highly educated, highly skilled workers such as medical professionals or tech engineers. For someone to get an H1-B, the American company […]
On September 5, 2025, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) made a decision that will have ripple effects and change everything for years to come when concerning bond hearings and removal proceedings at the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR). In Matter of Jonathan Javier Yajure Hurtado, Mr. Hurtado appealed the Immigration Judge’s April 18, […]
On Wednesday, June 25, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi filed a complaint in the United States District Court for Minnesota, challenging the reduced in-state tuition for immigrants present in the United States without lawful status. Not only is this an attack on people who live in the state of Minnesota, but it is also not […]
President Trump has started sending immigrants not just to other countries, but also to Guantanamo Bay. What does this mean for immigrants in the United States? Especially since this time is different. As ProPublica points out: “This time, however, the migrants are from countries across the world, including from places that are willing to take […]
Birthright citizenship is a constitutionally protected right in the United States. If you are born in the United States, you are automatically a citizen of the country. This has been the tradition in the United States for the last 150 years enshrined by the Fourteenth Amendment. But on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump decided […]
In 1996, Congress passed a law giving the federal government the power to declare an emergency relating to a “mass influx” of migrants. When that is enacted, the government can disburse funding to states and municipalities to deal with this influx. What does this mean in practice? Local police officers around the country could be […]
There have been a number of executive orders from President Trump since he took office on January 20, 2025. What do these orders say and what do they mean for immigrants? First, President Trump issued an executive order to rescind some of the Biden Administration policies including the establishment of a taskforce to revise civil […]
On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order called “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.” The order says that transgender people and their allies “deny the biological reality of sex” and a claim that the falsehood of transgender people “permit men to self-identify as […]