A Houston Chronicle report recently revealed that numerous Texas jails are still using an immigration screening program that has been criticized as unconstitutional. The program involves allowing the Department of Homeland Security and the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Bureau to access thousands of fingerprint records. The controversial immigration screening program has also been the target […]
A tentative agreement between state officials and civil liberties groups has prevented Alabama from publishing a list of undocumented immigrants living in the state. The agreement arose from a 2013 lawsuit, in which the American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the National Immigration Law Center sued the state on behalf of […]
A Mexican woman has filed an immigration lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a controversial Arizona immigration law. Attorneys for Maria del Rosario Cortes Camacho filed the suit last week alleging that she was detained in a federal immigration facility for five days due to an illegal arrest. The Cortes immigration lawsuit challenges he Arizona law […]
An immigration law clinic is helping immigrants who have escaped their violent homelands gain political asylum in the U.S. The Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic, based out of Elon University in North Carolina, provides free legal services to refugees and their families. Since 2010, more than 1,300 immigrants from nearly 50 countries have received aid in […]
In a speech to the Hispanic National Bar Association on Friday, Attorney General Eric Holder stated that the thousands of children who have entered the U.S. illegally in recent months should have an immigration attorney to represent their interests in the country’s crowded immigration courts. While Mr. Holder mentioned that, as undocumented immigrants, the children […]
In a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court made a ruling Monday that affects the immigration status of thousands of adult children of immigrants. The court ruled that children who have turned 21 while their parents waited for permanent resident status are not entitled to the same status as minor children as they wait […]
The United States Supreme Court’s recent decision to pass on reviewing a city ordinance that prohibits the renting homes to undocumented immigrants could affect the status of similar immigration laws in other parts of the country. The ordinance in place in the small town of Fremont, Nebraska, requires that renters apply for a permit, pay […]
I was born in Bryan, Texas. My parents moved there in the early 1980’s in their search for a better life. My father was forced to flee his home country of Nicaragua because of the political instability created by the communist revolution. My mother, a native Honduran, met my father on the beaches of Tola […]
I still remember the day I walked in on my mother crying. I was only seven years old and we had just ended the year with less than $70 in our bank account. My parents did everything they could to make ends meet and to provide for their children. My father immigrated to the United […]
All things considered, my family has not lived in the United States very long. My great grandfather immigrated to this country through New York around the turn of the century. He came from Pau, France, which is the northern edge of the Pyrenees, near Spain and the Atlantic. He was a young peasant working on […]