The U.S. Departments of Homeland Security and Justice announced Thursday that they will go ahead with implementing in stages a new rule authorizing asylum officers to decide some requests for protection at the U.S.-Mexico border, while continuing to seek more comment from the public.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security extended temporary protected status on Wednesday to Afghan nationals, bringing praise from immigration advocates as well as calls for a permanent solution for those who have fled the crisis-racked country.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement must come up with new policies to protect the constitutional rights of unaccompanied migrant children in its custody, a California federal judge ruled Friday.
A bipartisan government spending bill unveiled Wednesday would increase funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, while leaving out extra legal aid funding for immigrants and cuts to immigration detention resources sought by advocates.
The Biden administration can continue to use a pandemic-related order to quickly expel certain migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, but it can't send them to countries where they risk torture or severe persecution, the D.C. Circuit ruled Friday.