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Former President Trump's administration enacted a 'zero-tolerance' policy in April 2018 for families crossing the U.S. southern border without documentation to claim asylum, which resulted in parents being separated from their children. The U.S. border separation policy resulted in 5,500...

The Biden administration officially reinstated the controversial Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program, commonly known as Remain in Mexico. Asylum-seekers will now have to return to Mexico and wait for their immigration case to be heard. MPP was first implemented under...

The United States Supreme Court ordered on August 24 that President Joe Biden's administration must reinstate a Trump-era immigration policy that requires migrants entering the U.S. at the southern border to wait in Mexico while U.S. officials process their asylum claims. Biden...

President Biden announced a plan to raise the country’s refugee cap from 15,000 to more than 62,500. On May 1, 2021, Biden said this increase "erases the historically low number set by the previous administration of 15,000, which did not...

Un refugiado es alguien que fue obligado a dejar su país natal por temor válido a ser lastimado o perseguido. El Estatuto de Refugiado protegerá a ésta persona y le permitirá aplicar por beneficios, obtener un trabajo, viajar, y comenzar...

The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security issued a joint proposed new rule that will make it more difficult for criminal aliens to get asylum in the United States. The new restrictions on asylum seekers, if passed,...

Illinois Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzer announced that he fully supports allowing refugees to resettle in Illinois, and he intends to sign a letter allowing refugee resettlement in Illinois. An executive order executed by the Trump administration requires that a written...

Asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border make their cases in improvised immigration tent courts, where they appear before judges via video. The video tent courts have raised due-process concerns among immigration advocates, reports the Wall Street Journal. In August, the...

Migrant Protection Protocol (MPP) policy was implemented in January by the Trump administration directed at immigrants at the U.S. southern border. The new MPP program sends migrants who enter the U.S. illegally, or who appear at official places of entry...

Long a draw for Mexican immigrants, a new study shows fewer families of asylum seekers choose Chicago as their destination. A new Mexican border study said Chicago ranked 21st in destination choice for refugees, and only 76 families of asylum...