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What a Second Trump Term Means for Immigration: A Dire Forecast

November 9, 2024

- By Ava Benach The American people have spoken loudly and clearly and have elected Donald Trump to return to the White House in 2025. Trump made immigration a centerpiece of his campaign, using racist,...

What is the Caravan and what should U.S. immigration authorities do with it?

April 30, 2018

We have heard a lot about the "Caravan" of immigrants making its way north through Mexico from the Northern Triangle- El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala- of Central America. Once numbering over 1200 people, the remaining...

End of DACA- What are the new rules?

September 7, 2017

This is the first of several articles detailing the changes to the DACA program announced on Tuesday September 5, 2017. This is meant to give quick and dirty information, whereas the next one we...

Walls, DACA and Raids: What has happened in immigration since Trump’s inauguration?

March 16, 2017

Back in November, we made some predictions about what might occur in a Trump presidency as it relates to immigration. Generally, we were very pessimistic and presumed that almost all areas of immigration would become...

Remember the St. Louis

January 27, 2017

Today, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, I am thinking about the M.S. St. Louis. In 1939, while war waged in Europe, the M.S. St. Louis, a transatlantic ship carrying Jewish refugees fleeing the Third Reich, reached...

¿Cómo los inmigrantes pueden prepararse para la administración de Trump?

November 19, 2016

La semana pasada compartimos lo que puede pasar de primeras durante la presidencia de Trump. No era nuestra meta ser alarmistas, pero tenemos indicios que Trump no se está haciendo para atrás con sus horribles...

How Immigrants Can Prepare for the Trump Administration

November 15, 2016

Last week, we discussed what might happen early on in a Trump presidency. It was not our goal to sound alarmist, but early indications are that Trump is not backing down on his awful immigration...

What to Expect from Trump on Immigration on Day One

November 11, 2016

The shock over the results of Tuesday’s election of Donald Trump has not yet worn off. After two days of triage in hearing from scared clients and friends, we are now forced to confront what...

Framing the National Convention between Two Clevelands

July 21, 2016

“It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our...

Muslim Immigrants to US Were Abused before Trump Started Name-Calling

December 9, 2015

Let's start here: Donald Trump is an abomination. From his slander of Mexicans as rapists to the violence he incites and tolerates at his rallies to his latest outrages of suggesting a database and a...

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