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El 21 de Julio, el Presidente Trump firmó un documento para excluir las cifras de inmigrantes documentados del Censo de 2020. Trump declaró que incluir a los inmigrantes documentados “crearía incentivas perversas y depreciaría el sistema de gobierno." Dale Ho,...

President Trump signed an executive order on Monday, June 22 that restricts work visas through 2020. The new restrictions will prevent hundreds of thousands of foreign workers from working in the United States and will strengthen his ongoing efforts to...

ICE inquiries into workplace immigration investigations of immigrants working illegally and employers illegally hiring undocumented workers have quadrupled under the Trump administration, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.  Investigators with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workplace...

In a speech to the International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference and Exposition on October 28 in Chicago, President Trump slammed the host city Chicago as “embarrassing to us as a nation.” Trump went on to say that...

The Trump administration announced by proclamation on October 4, 2019, plans to deny immigrant visas to applicants who can’t pay for health care. Effective November 3, 2019, consular officers have been ordered to bar immigrants seeking to live in the...

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,...

On August 12 the Trump administration announced it is moving forward with their plan to deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers and other forms of public assistance, effective October 15, 2019. Federal law...

NPR is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security is fining individuals who failed to depart the United States as ordered. According to NPR, during the last week of June letters with ICE fines up to $500,000 were sent across...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law 2 bills on June 28 that will protect Illinois immigrant rights against ICE and Trump attacks on immigrant communities: “Let the word go out from today that the state of Illinois stands as a...

On July 12, Americans are pledging to come together to demand an end to migrant detention camps. El Paso, Texas; Homestead, Florida; San Diego, California; New York City and Washington D.C. are the key sites where organizers hope thousands of...