October 7th, 20220— This article, by Sunita Sohrabji for Ethnic Media Service, has been edited for style
Last week, the Biden administration gutted the signature Trump-era policy known as public charge, which effectively imposed a wealth tax on people seeking to gain permanent residency in the U.S.
The new rule will go into effect on Dec. 23. It...
August 24th, 20220WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Wednesday, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) announced the appointment of Abed Ayoub to serve as ADC national executive director.
The ADC is a long-running organization, involved in advocacy in broad-ranging incidents of discrimination against the Arab American and Muslim communities of the...
June 20th, 20220A local professor spent the last few years documenting the history of Arab Americans in Indianapolis. WFYI’s Taylor Bennett spoke with Edward Curtis, chair of Liberal Arts and professor of religious studies in the School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI, about the project — Arab Indianapolis: A Hidden History — and why it was...
May 17th, 20220DETROIT — The International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit (IIMD) is offering free citizenship legal services to Metro Detroiters through a grant from the federal government.
The institute is encouraging anyone thinking of applying for citizenship to reach out to it. Immigration legal staff will assist people applying for...
April 23rd, 20220
By Zeinab Cheaib
April is Arab American Heritage Month, which is particularly special in Toledo, where a vital Arab-American community has contributed to the city's rich history for more than a century.
Samir Abu Absi, a professor emeritus at the University of Toledo, said some of the first Arab immigrants came to north...
February 9th, 20220By Joseph Richard Preville
On August 4, 1963, The New York Times Magazine published President Kennedy’s majestic essay, “A Nation of Immigrants.” Rejecting geographically narrow and restrictive immigration quotas based on national origin for the U.S., Kennedy urged reform and the adoption of a new immigration policy that would...
September 15th, 20210WASHINGTON D.C. — The U.S. will begin requiring people applying for immigrant status to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
The new policy is set to go into effect Oct. 1, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website.
“If the applicant has not received any of the listed vaccinations and the vaccinations...
April 26th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has released a report detailing nationwide incidents of civil rights complaints by Muslim Americans that the group received over the past year.
The 2021 report is named Resilience in the Face of Hate.
The country’s “largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy...
March 21st, 20210Progressive members of the Democratic Party are continuing their efforts to raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour, after the effort failed to pass the U.S. Senate as part of the latest COVID-19 relief package.
Those members, like U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), intend to ensure a $15 minimum wage increase is incorporated...
February 18th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — After promising sweeping reforms to the country's immigration system, the Biden administration announced a proposed immigration bill on Thursday that would give an eight-year path to citizenship for millions of migrants in the U.S. and fast track citizenship for undocumented individuals who came to the U.S. as...
November 20th, 20200DETROIT — Two local doctors are being charged in a criminal complaint for their alleged roles in a fraudulent immigration scheme.
A psychologist and medical doctor are accused of creating fake medical diagnoses to help immigrants fraudulently obtain their citizenship.
United States Attorney Matthew Schneider announced charges...
October 26th, 20200WASHINGTON D.C. — On Monday, U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) sent a letter to calling for an international investigation into ongoing alleged human rights abuses by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The letter was sent to United...
August 14th, 20200WASHINGTON, D.C — A new report by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) shows the breadth of changes to immigration policy enacted during the Trump administration.
The report collects for posterity and analysis of broad sweeping changes and technical adjustments to the immigration system in the U.S., with more than 400 executive...
July 14th, 20200NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) — In a stunning reversal of policy on Tuesday, the Trump administration abandoned a plan that would have forced out tens of thousands of foreign students following widespread condemnation of the move and pressure from colleges and major businesses.
U.S. officials announced last week that international...
June 21st, 20200Discouraging news surrounds us. It’s hard to hide from. It’s in the newspapers, on television and radio, and on the Internet.
Our nation is divided and our politics are polarized. We are torn apart by disagreements over immigration and by racial divisions. A pandemic has killed more than 100,000 Americans and hobbled the economy....
April 21st, 20200WASHINGTON,D.C. - President Trump said on Monday he will suspend all immigration into the United States temporarily through an executive order in response to the coronavirus outbreak and to protect U.S. jobs.
The move, which Trump announced on Twitter, effectively achieves one of his long-term policy goals of curbing immigration,...
December 26th, 20191LOS ANGELES — While hundreds of thousands of immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) permits await the decision of the Supreme Court on the future of the program, lawyers and immigrant advocates argue that the vast majority of them have sufficient legal rights to remain in this country for several years and maybe...
August 26th, 20190DEARBORN - On Tuesday, August 20, Dearborn City Council voted not to renew its prisoner housing contract with Calhoun County after a decade-long arrangement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold detainees.
This agreement was caused from controversy over detentions of undocumented immigrants by ICE.
The contract...
August 13th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C.— Several advocates for immigrant families spoke out this week against a new Trump administration regulation that aims to prevent millions of families from accessing health care and other programs by denying them lawful permanent status in the United States.
A person seeking entry into the U.S. or applying for a green...
June 10th, 20190WELLINGTON, New Zealand— A recent poll conducted by the Wellington-based Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) asked civil society groups, lawyers and journalists from 19 different countries to assess how each country treats its citizens.
Annie-Marie Brook, co-founder of HRMI, told Reuters that the United States is performing...
May 17th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump said he wants to overhaul the immigration system to favor young, educated, English-speaking applicants with job offers instead of people with family ties to Americans, a plan with little chance of advancing in Congress.
Trump’s plan, roundly panned by Democrats and immigration advocacy groups, is...
May 17th, 20190The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services is seeking to remove the means-tested benefits option from its fee waiver request. The proposed change was put up for public comment on the Federal Register with an end-date for comments of May 6.
The USCIS considers waiving a fee for certain applications or petitions when the...
March 1st, 20190LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel joined two federal amicus briefs supporting legal actions against the director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to protect immigrants already in this country and to protect those attempting to enter this country.
Ramos v Nielsen, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth...
December 8th, 20180DEARBORN HEIGHTS — For Jim Pawlukiewicz, a Vietnam veteran who has lived in the U.S. since childhood, the immigration and citizenship process was a 50-year nightmare of never-ending bureaucracy, red tape and roadblocks.
However, Pawlukiewicz, 72, finally had his breakthrough this May thanks in large part to his simple refusal to...
November 4th, 20180WASHINGTON — With congressional elections a week away, President Trump said on Tuesday that he'll seek to scrap the right of citizenship for U.S.-born children of non-citizens and illegal immigrants as he tries again to dramatically reshape immigration policies.
Reviving his support for a legally questionable theory, Trump told...
October 26th, 20182WASHINGTON - The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has updated a key requirement to obtain a green card effective Nov. 1.
The policy changes announced this week will affect the medical and vaccination examination for immigration purposes, which makes sure there are no health issues that would deem the applicant inadmissible to...
October 22nd, 20180Liliana Barrios was working in a California bakery in July and facing possible deportation when she got a call from her immigration attorney with some good news.
The notice to appear in court that Barrios had received in her deportation case hadn’t specified a time or date for her first hearing, noting that they would be determined...
October 16th, 20181A small school district in affluent Marin County in California, serving about 2,000 youngsters in the bucolic West Marin towns of Fairfax and San Anselmo, has contracted with Thomson Reuters — a firm linked to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — to check on the residential status of its students.
Ross Valley School...
