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CMS Migration Update

In a decision released on June 23, the US Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling and reinstated the right of the Executive Branch to set immigration enforcement priorities. In issuing the 8-1 decision, the Court decided that the states of Texas and Louisiana did not have standing to bring the case. The Biden administration’s […]

Immigration drove white, Asian population growth in US last year

Without immigration, the white population in the United States would have declined last year. Immigration also propelled the expansion of the Asian population, which was the fastest-growing race or ethnic group last year in the United States, while births outpacing deaths helped propel growth in Hispanic, Black, tribal, and Hawaiian populations. Read More >>>

Migration Update – June 20, 2023

Alejandro Mayorkas, DHS Secretary, announced an extension of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal for 18 months. By extending TPS, the administration rescinded the Trump administration’s termination of TPS for these countries. Read More >>>

Corruption at US Ports

The US has decided to halt all new appointments to be admitted to the country for those seeking asylum at the border crossing between Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico and Laredo, Texas amongst serious safety concerns. Read More >>>

Flights Full of Doubt

Contractors hired by the state of Florida have been roaming around Sacred Heart Church in downtown El Paso attempting to convince and coerce individuals around the shelter to board a charter flight to California. So far the contractors have managed to convince around 36 individuals to be driven to a small airport in New Mexico to […]

Migrants say Florida contractors pushed to get them to board planes to California

María had traveled over 2,800 miles from Venezuela to reach the United States in early May. Once crossing the border, however, she’d only made it four blocks, to a shelter at Sacred Heart Church, in downtown El Paso. Like many asylum seekers released on parole by Customs and Border Protection, she had no money to […]

LOOKING FROM THE BORDERLANDS: The Week’s Top Stories from the Border

Very often we toss and turn from narratives of crisis to moments of intermission at the border. The intermission is a moment of pause when national attention vanishes, only to return at the next moment of ‘supposed’ crisis. But communities, in that seemingly pause, never stop the work of accompanying people on the move. The […]

Border politics threaten push to boost spending on migrant aid

Border politics threaten push to boost spending on migrant aid   Partisan division over U.S.-Mexico border security threatens to tank a Democratic effort this month to ramp up federal grant funds to help migrants who recently crossed the border, including those whom Republican-led states have bused and flown across the country. Both the White House […]

FARMERS PUSH FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM

Farmers are pushing for immigration reform to pass this could ease labor shortages and lower food prices. Since Covid in 2020 and with the current labor shortage, people are facing a fragility on their food supply chain. The pandemic has resulted in higher prices or empty store shelves for consumers, farmers say this is in […]