This practice advisory describes the Biden administration’s current prosecutorial discretion policy in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Texas, 143 S. Ct. 1964 (2023), focusing on the 2021 "Mayorkas Memo" and the 2022...
This details the intersection of pardons and immigration and explain why increasing the accessibility, transparency, and frequency with which governors, pardoning bodies, and the president grant pardons should be an advocacy priority.
DHS has created a new “streamlined process” for workers involved in a labor dispute at their workplace to request temporary protection from deportation and a work permit. This FAQ (available in 10 languages) answers top questions about the new...
Florida’s aggressive anti-immigrant laws imperil and harm thousands of noncitizen state residents, including the state’s estimated nearly 800,000 undocumented residents. However, noncitizens in Florida may be able to benefit from federal immigration...
In light of the escalating and increasingly dangerous situation in Texas, the National Immigration Project and an additional 107 organizations, delivered a letter to DHS to call on its agencies to take stronger actions to disavow, investigate, and...
This practice alert analyzes the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Pugin v. Garland, 143 S. Ct. 1833 (2023). The June 22 opinion addressed the generic definition of the obstruction of justice aggravated felony ground at 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(43)(S)...
This practice advisory, authored by the National Immigration Project and the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, offers a comprehensive review of strategies for reopening cases that were denied under the Migrant Protection Protocols ("MPP")...
In 2023, USCIS issued revised instructions for asylum applications (Form I-589). The National Immigration Project, along with Kids in Need of Defense and Public Counsel, submitted these suggested revisions to the form instructions and related web...
The National Immigration Project and Together and Free document their observations from trips to Matamoros and Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico in June and July 2023, where they conducted interviews with asylum seekers, service providers, and advocates...
En 2008, la ciudad de Farmville en Virginia inició un acuerdo de servicio intergubernamental (IGSA por sus siglas en inglés) con el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) para la detención de inmigrantes. Posteriormente, el gobierno local...