The December 20, 2017 New York Times article “Without New Laws or Walls, Trump Presses the Brake on Legal Immigration” insinuates that the Trump Administration is purposely slowing down the H1-B visa process by drowning potential immigrants in paperwork and red tape. (more…)

A 10-year-old girl was recently detained by immigration enforcement agents after being discharged from a children's hospital. The girl, Rosa Maria Hernandez, was being transported by her cousin to Driscoll Children’s Hospital when they passed through a Customs and Border checkpoint. Immigration agents allowed the two to proceed but followed...

Under a policy change announced by USCIS on Oct. 23, renewals of non-immigrant visas will undergo the same scrutiny as first-time applications. Before the policy update, officers could give deference to findings in previously approved applications when deciding on renewals, but now, even if the beneficiary and petitioner are unchanged,...

On Oct. 13, the U.S. Department of Defense issued a memorandum enhancing the vetting and monitoring requirements for service members who accessed under the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI) Pilot Program. MAVNI is a program through which non-immigrants with critical skills are recruited into the U.S. military....

It is now widely known that arrests of undocumented immigrants in the United States have been much higher under the Trump Administration. In fact, in the first half of 2017, arrest rates were nearly 40 percent higher compared to the first half of 2016. (more…)