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On August 7, 2019, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) stopped accepting and adjudicating medical deferred action applications for non-military applicants. On September 19, the administration reversed it's ruling and decreed that deportation medical exemptions resume for immigrants who need...

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is considering a new proposal to increase the deportation appeal fee for an immigrant to appeal their deportation by nearly 1000%: from the current $110 to $975 to request an appeal by an immigration judge...

California and 19 other states on August 23, 2019, announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration's proposed new rule to change the court order that limits the detention of migrant minors to 20 days, known as the Flores Rule. Heading...

On Friday, August 30, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker erased the drug conviction of a U.S. Army veteran deported to Mexico. The 39-year-old vet's supporters hope this will help him return to the U.S. Prizer pardoned the vet deported to Mexico,...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been using facial recognition to scan driver’s license photos in some states. Illinois has turned down ICE requests to review driver's licenses. Facial recognition software use by law enforcement including ICE, the FBI...

Ahead of ICE raids expected to begin on July 14, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced that the city will not cooperate with any ICE raids and Governor JB Pritzker said the state won't coordinate in any way with federal immigration...

On Tuesday, June 25, a photo of a migrant father and his 23-month-old daughter who drowned while trying to cross the Rio Grande River to reach the United States started appearing online - and by Wednesday the border photo was...

President Trump announced on June 17, 2019, that starting next week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials will begin conducting mass ICE raids targeting families of undocumented immigrants. "Next week ICE will begin the process of removing the millions of...

On May 20, 2019, the 7th Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals ruled that a Mexican immigrant who has lived continuously in the United States since 1999 can be deported despite his Notice to Appear not stating the...

Undocumented parents of U.S citizen children have had an uphill battle for over a year when it came to obtaining their child's birth certificate in the state of Texas. County officials had amended requirements for immigrants seeking a child's birth...