TOP UPDATES
Today Is International Migrants’ Day: 2017 Theme: Safe Migration in a World on the Move
·A Day Without Migrants Campaign
·OHCHR: #StandUp4Migrants videos
·Honor the day with these guides to books, audio, and film:
oBooks:Give the Gift of Literary Empathy–ImmigrationHoliday Book Guide(full disclosure, I wrote this one)
oPodcasts:Immigration and migration stories
oFilm:IOM and UNICEF Film Festival in New Yorktoday
White House to push merit-based immigration in new campaign
·AP: The White House is embarking on a major campaign to turn public opinion against the nation’s largely family-based immigration system ahead of an all-out push next year to move toward a more merit-based structure.
·Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks on the Administration's Efforts to Combat MS-13 and Carry Out its Immigration Priorities: “The President has also proposed ending chain migration and switching to a merit-based system like they have in Canada and Australia. That means welcoming the best and the brightest and turning away not only terrorists, but gang members and criminals.”
TPS for Nicaragua and Honduras
·Termination of the Designation of Nicaragua for Temporary Protected Status
·Extension of the Designation of Honduras for Temporary Protected Status
·EADs: Through operation of this Notice, your existing EAD issued under the TPS designation of Honduras with an expiration date of January 5, 2018, is automatically extended for 180 days, through July 4, 2018. You do not need to apply for a new EAD in order to benefit from this 180-day automatic extension. However, if you want to obtain a new EAD with an expiration date of July 5, 2018 on its face, you must file an Application for Employment Authorization (Form I-765) and pay the Form I-765 fee in addition to filing your re-registration application (Form I-821).
LexisNexis’s Role in ICE Surveillance and Librarian Ethics
LLB: As library organizations discuss ways library professionals can advocate for intellectual freedom, democracy, and equality, we should begin by grappling with how to react when our major database providers engage in massive surveillance projects with the government.
Federal Investigation Finds 'Significant Issues' At Immigrant Detention Centers
NPR: Immigrants detained at four large centers used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement are subject to inhumane treatment, given insufficient hygiene supplies and medical care, and provided potentially unsafe food, according to a federalreport.
On the ground with ICE agents enforcing Trump’s immigration crackdown
ImmProf: Since President Trump took office, immigration arrests are up 42 percent. ICE estimates, nationwide, they make 400 arrests a day. ICE has arrested 37,000 undocumented immigrants without criminal records. That’s a 145 percent increase over fiscal year 2016.
Complaint Documents 15 Cases of Family Separation at the Border
AIC: Advocates filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) and Office of the Inspector General (OIG) on behalf of numerous families – most, if not all, who fled to the United States seeking humanitarian relief – who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.
DHS Overestimates Visa Overstays for 2016; Overstay Population Growth Near Zero During the Year
CMS: This paper compares US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) estimates for visa overstays in fiscal year 2016 with estimates from the Center for Migration Studies (CMS).
An HIV-Positive Gay Asylum Seeker Staged a 7-Day Hunger Strike in an ICE Detention Facility
The Nation: Protesting prolonged detention, substandard medical care, and parole denial, Jesus Rodriguez Mendoza may soon stop eating again.
Bronx man allegedly poses as Hempstead attorney, steals more than $30,000 from immigrant clients
PIX: Efrain Vargas told clients in Hempstead he would obtain immigration and residency papers for them, but never delivered on his promises, officials said. He was arrested and arraigned Wednesday for allegedly scamming immigrants.
OCC-NYC Filing Window Hours on 12/20 and 12/22
OCC: Please be advised that our reception area and filing window at 26 Federal Plaza and 201 Varick Street will be closed from 12:00-1:30pm on Wednesday, December 20th. Please be further advised that our reception area and filing window will close at 3pm on Friday, December 22nd.
ACTIONS
·#GiveMateoBack: Amnesty International USA is also working to hold ICE accountable for family separation. You can find steps for a social media/letter writing campaignhere.
RESOURCES
·USCIS Provides Training Material on the International Religious Freedom Act and Religious Persecution
·USCIS Provides Training Material on TRIG
·Manhattan DA – Supp Bs -: December 2017 will be my last month at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. If you have pending supplement B certification request that has yet to be submitted to my office, please email the requests to me by Friday, December 22nd. We will make every effort to review each certification request and provide a response before the New Year. After December 22nd, please send all U-visa supplement B requests to Mayerling Rivera . As with all past requests, please be sure to provide a waiver signed by your client (include your client’s date of birth and any aliases)… The body of the email should include the case indictment or docket number, name of the defendant, and/ or the case arrest number. Please keep in mind that we cannot locate cases in our system records using an NYPD complaint number.
·Give the Gift of Literary Empathy–ImmigrationHoliday Book Guide(full disclosure, I wrote this one)
·Podcasts:Immigration and migration stories
EVENTS
·12/18/17International Migrants Day
·12/18/17Global Migration Film Festival
·2/8/17Basic Immigration Law 2018
·2/9/17Asylum, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, Crime Victim, and Other Immigration Relief 2018
·4/30/17Working with Immigrants: The Intersection of Basic Immigration, Housing, and Domestic Violence Issues in California 2018 (Free)
ImmProf
Monday, December 18, 2017
·Wax and Richwine: US Should End Low-Skill Immigration
·2017's Top 10 Immigration Stories
Sunday, December 17, 2017
·Immigration Articles of the Day: Movement Lawyers in the Fight for Immigrant Rights by Sameer M. Ashar
·Senator Doug Jones on Immigration
Friday, December 15, 2017
·Federal Investigation Finds 'Significant Issues' At Immigrant Detention Centers
·Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks on the Administration's Efforts to Combat MS-13 and Carry Out its Immigration Priorities
·Christmas at the White House 2017
·On the ground with ICE agents enforcing Trump’s immigration crackdown
Thursday, December 14, 2017
·From the Bookshelves: The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom by Helen Thorpe
·Are Puerto Ricans really American citizens?
·Fact Check: Trump on the Diversity Visa
·Music Break: Jackson Browne - The Dreamer (Featuring Los Cenzontles)
·The American Who Ran a Refugee Camp in Greece
·Why Don't "They" Come Here Legally?
·The Wall to Nowhere
·Top 10 Migration Issues of 2017
·Board 'the beast': migrants' daring train ride through Mexico – in pictures
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
·Immigration Article of the Day: Immigration Law Allies and Administrative Law Adversaries by Jill E. Family
·Salma Hayek on Harvey Weinstein
·Immigration Section Panels at AALS Annual Meeting: Mass Deportation & Works-in-Progress
·Remembering Immprof Gwynne L. Skinner (1964-2017)
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
·From the Bookshelves: The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954 by S. Deborah Kang
·Immigration Article of the Day: Crimmigration-Counterterrorism by Margaret Hu
Monday, December 11, 2017
·Turning traffic stops into immigration stops, and breaking up families
·President Trump: Today's Terror Attack Demonstrates the Need for Immigration Reform
·LexisNexis’s Role in ICE Surveillance and Librarian Ethics
·Supreme Court Blocks DACA Discovery Orders
AILA NEWS UPDATE
http://www.aila.org/advo-media/news/clips
Daily Immigration News Clips – December 15, 2017
Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on December 15, 2017.
National
NewsweekICE Kept 92 Immigrants Shackled On A Plane For Two Days In 'Slave Ship' Conditions, Advocates Say
By Carlos Ballesteros
APWhite House aims to sway opinion on immigration overhaul
By Zeke Miller and Jill Colvin
The Washington PostHouse to vote on spending bill that Senate won't pass, rekindling shutdown showdown
By Mike DeBonis and Ed O'Keefe
CNNCan moderates get their revenge on DACA?
By Tal Kopan
The HillDems under pressure to deliver for Dreamers
By Mike Lillis and Rafael Bernal
Daily NewsFeds argue ending DACA was within Trump administration's rights
By Andrew Keshner
VoxWhat DACA recipients aren't telling their children
By Dara Lind
CrosscutAn undocumented nurse has a message for Donald Trump
By Enrique Cerna
New York TimesIn Haiti, tracing a paradise lost
By Peter Kujawinski
CNNSurprise inspections find 'significant issues' in treatment of ICE detainees
By Catherine E. Shoichet
CNNTrump will stop spouses of H-1B visa holders from working
By Jethro Mullen
NewsdayDA: Man posed as attorney, stole over $30,000 from immigrants
By Bridget Murphy
KPBSStudies Show DACA Recipients Unlikely To Displace U.S. Jobs, Spur Large Family Sponsorships
By Maureen Cavanaugh and Michael Lipkin
The Week (Opinion)How to thwart Trump's cruel crackdown on the DREAMers
By Shikha Dalmia
The Washington Post (Op-Ed)Congress must act on the 'dreamers'
By Tim Cook and Charles Koch
The Hill (Op-Ed)What border communities want and need in a Dream Act
By Christian Ramirez
The Hill (Op-Ed)Domestic terror is a direct result of America's liberal immigration policies
By Brian Lonergan
The Guardian (Op-Ed)Three reasons Republicans should support the Dream Act
By Diana Pliego, Bruna Bouhid, and Jonathan Jayes-Green
The Guardian (Op-Ed)Life on the California border: the spectre of deportation never goes away
By Itzel Guillen
Newsweek (Op-Ed)TRUMP'S MUSLIM BAN IS WORKING. MUSLIM IMMIGRATION SLUMPS
By David Bier
Teen Vogue (Op-Ed)All I Want for Christmas Is for My Parents to Not Be Deported
By Jasmine Lopez
The Jesuit Review (Op-Ed)A Catholic's immigration wish list
By J. Kevin Appleby
New York Daily News (Op-Ed)Humanitarian deferred action on immigration is rare, but possible
By Allan Wernick
The Hill (Op-Ed)Immigrant entrepreneurs are vital to American prosperity
By John Dearie and Ian Hathaway
Local
Duluth News Tribune'This was a difficult day,' immigration judge says as he rules to deport Minnesota man
By Celeste Edenloff
WLRNCity of Miami Passes Resolution Urging Federal Government To Extend TPS
By Odalis Garcia
Sacramento BeeReps. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer face pressure to protect 'Dreamers'
By Angela Hart
Spectrum News-Austin'DREAMERS' RETURN FROM DC TRIP ENERGIZED
By Carlos Garcia
New York Amsterdam NewsDACA fate hangs in the balance for another week
By Stephon Johnson
San Antonio Express NewsA DACA fix this year looks unlikely
By Bill Lambrecht
AP (NC)Fifth N.C. church offers sanctuary from deportation
Sacramento Bee (CA)He told them they could become citizens by getting adopted. Now he's going to jail
By Stephen Magagnini
New York City Patch (NY)New York DACA Lawsuit Prompts Fight Over Records
By Noah Manskar
Grand Forks Herald (MN)'This was a difficult day,' immigration judge says as he rules to deport Minnesota man
By Celeste Edenloff
Lancaster Online (PA)Mural project highlights immigration issue, though cold weather delays installation
By Tim Stuhldreher
Windy City Times (IL)Black LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project launches to build community power
WHYY (PA)Fearing drug traffickers in Mexico, family takes sanctuary from deportation in N. Philly church
By Laura Benshoff
Greensboro News & Record (Editorial)Our Opinion: Get going, Congress
Lancaster Online (Editorial)DACA recipients need to be pulled from legal limbo
Courier-Journal (Op-Ed)We all suffer if Congress ends tax break for graduate students | Opinion
By Eli Capilouto
Los Angeles Blade (Op-Ed)HRC stands with Dreamers across America
By MB Maxwell
Queens Chronicle (Op-Ed)Pass the DREAM Act now
By Bitta Mostofi
Daily Immigration News Clips – December 14, 2017
Aggregated local and national media coverage of major immigration law news stories being discussed throughout the U.S. on December 14, 2017
National
PoliticoDemocrats back off DACA shutdown threat
By Ted Hesson
VoxExclusive: The Postal Service kept him from renewing his DACA. Now he's in immigration detention.
By Dara Lind
The Guardian'If I seek help, the police might deport me. If I don't, he might kill me'
By SI Rosenbaum
APHomeland Security chief says other states should emulate Texas ban on sanctuary cities
By Will Wessert
ReutersUS cities seek voice in migration talks after Trump walks out
ViceImmigrants Are Nervous About What's Next After the Terror Attack
By Sonja Sharp
HuffPostWhen Will Paul Ryan Step Down?
By Matt Fuller
ABC NewsAttorney general, DHS secretary tie NYC terror attack to 'failures' in immigration system
By Geneva Sands and Matt Seyler
New York Times (Opinion)'Will They Take Me, Too?'
By Brooke Jarvis
Miami Herald (Opinion)We sang in Spanish, fell in love with 'Coco' - Latino culture trumped hate in 2017
By Fabiola Santiago
The Hill (Op-Ed)Like it or hate it, Trump's immigration enforcement is failing
By Nolan Rappaport
The Hill (Op-Ed)New York should get used to terrorism if Congress refuses to fix the borders
By Ira Mehlman
HuffPost (Op-Ed)Four Reasons Why The Republican Tax Bill is a Disaster for Latinos
By Hector E. Sanchez Barra
Local
Minnesota Public Radio News(Minnesota)For Minnesota Somalis, a raw, rising fear of deportation
By Mukhtar M. Ibrahim
LA TimesTrump administration focus on immigration and drug war outweigh democracy concerns in Honduras
By Tracy Wilkinson and Kate Linthicum
CT News JunkieBlumenthal Calls For Passage of Dream Act, But Won't Shut Down Gov't To Get It
By Christine Stuart
The New PoliticalFamily Matters: Ohio family fights against threat of deportation
By Marianne Dodson
Lancaster OnlineICE detains Lancaster man whose DACA protection lapsed after Post Office mixup
By Tim Stuhldreher
KentLiveA crackdown on a 'highly organised' criminal immigration network sees arrests in Kent
By Ben Hatton
WBURFor Guatemalan War Survivors, Arrest Of Accused War Criminal Is A Cause For Hope
By Simon Rios
KDVRDenver woman faces deportation after 20 years in America
By Erika Gonzalez
KPBSFather Seeking Asylum In U.S. Struggles To Reunite With 1-Year-Old Taken By Immigration Officials
By Jean Guerrero
Boston Globe (Massachusetts)Churches offer sanctuary to immigrants facing deportation
By Brian MacQuarrie
Colorado Politics (Colorado)Veteran strategist Alvina Vasquez named political director for Jared Polis' gubernatorial campaign
By Ernest Luning
Indiana Public Media (Indiana)Immigration Roundtable: 'Find A Solution For DACA, Now'
By Lauren Chapman
Flagpole (Georgia)Sheriff Ira Edwards Is Detaining Athens Inmates for ICE to Deport
By Blake Aued