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Desde el 15 de Marzo, la mayoría de las cortes migratorias han estado cerradas debido al brote de coronavirus, (COVID-19), pero las audiencias en corte para miles de niños que intentaron cruzar la frontera sin compañía de un adulto, y...

Since March 15, most immigration courts have been closed due to the coronavirus (COVID-19), but court hearings for the thousands of children in United States government custody who crossed the border into the U.S. without an adult are still subject...

Thousands of foreign workers on skilled-worker visas, such as H-1Bs, have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) economic crisis, and now face the prospect of deportation. The American Immigration Lawyers Association has asked United States Citizenship and Immigration...

When someone is arrested and detained on an immigration charge by the Department of Homeland Security, one option to get out of the detention facility while waiting for a hearing is to pay an immigration bond. The bond money is...

If you are a non-U.S. citizen being investigated or charged with an Illinois or federal crime, you must be very careful. Criminal charges and the United States criminal justice system are frightening for anyone, but especially for non-citizens. A criminal...

Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White's office announced on January 22 that an error in Illinois' new automatic voter registration system led to possibly 545 non-U.S. citizens being registered to vote. 574 people who self-identified as non-citizens were erroneously forwarded...

16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, a Guatemalan migrant, was seriously ill on May 19 when immigration agents put him in a small South Texas holding cell with another sick boy. A nurse practitioner at the Border Patrol processing center in...

Depending on where you live, it is not always required to have a Social Security Number in order to get a driver’s license. 13 states and the District of Columbia allow undocumented immigrants to get a driver’s license without a...

Time and time again, poor medical conditions have compromised the health of immigrant children in Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) custody, says the American Immigration Lawyers Association in a complaint AILA filed in September against the Department of Homeland Security...

The United States Supreme Court justices agreed on Friday, October 18, 2019, to consider the Trump administration's effort to speed up the deportation of thousands of migrants without allowing them federal court hearings. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...