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Supreme Court will decide case over immigration priorities - Roll Call

The high court will decide if DHS followed law when it told immigration agents to focus on immigrants with more serious criminal convictions.

Roll Call · Jul 21, 2022

Republicans plot immigration moves if they control House

WASHINGTON — When House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy led a group of House Republicans to the U.S.-Mexico border this year, he had a warning for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about what Republicans would do if they were in charge.

Tribune News Service · Jul 21, 2022

Republicans plot immigration moves if they control House - Roll Call

GOP lawmakers already planning how they’ll handle immigration issues if they emerge victorious in November and win control of the House.

Roll Call · Jul 21, 2022

Florida members of Congress ask Biden administration to give Nicaraguans protected status

A bipartisan group of Florida members of Congress called on the Biden administration Friday to “redesignate and extend” Temporary Protected Status, a humanitarian protection that shields people from deportation, to eligible Nicaraguan already residing in the United States.

Miami Herald · Jul 15, 2022

Editorial: Biden should make reopening of Friendship Park a priority, not an afterthought

Last year, a Politico headline summarized President Joe Biden's immigration problem succinctly: "It's not just Republicans. Everyone's mad at Biden over migration." In the 2020 campaign, Biden promised a fair and humane immigration system and offered unrelenting criticism of then-President Donald Trump for his cruel rhetoric about and policies toward…

Tribune News Service · Jul 15, 2022

Biden administration extends TPS protection for Venezuelans

Temporary Protect Status extension shields Venezuelans in US as of March 2021 from deportation for 18 more months.

Al Jazeera · Jul 11, 2022

Biden extends temporary protected status for eligible Venezuelans to March 2024

Eligible Venezuelans will be able to live in the United States with temporary protected status for another 18 months, the Biden administration announced Monday, although Venezuelans who have arrived in the country after March 8, 2021, will not be eligible for the immigration relief.

McClatchy Washington Bureau · Jul 11, 2022

Border Patrol agents did not whip migrants in Del Rio but internal report notes ‘unprofessional and dangerous behaviour’

Investigators ‘found multiple instances in which agents acted inappropriately during the incident’

The Independent UK · Jul 8, 2022

Report finds agents used improper force against Haitian migrants

Several Border Patrol agents used undue force against Haitian migrants along the southwest border last fall.

Roll Call · Jul 8, 2022

Immigration enforcement policy fight reaches Supreme Court - Roll Call

The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to let immigration agencies implement a policy that sets enforcement priorities, after lower courts blocked it as part of a legal challenge brought by officials from Texas and Louisiana. The policy, issued by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a September…

Roll Call · Jul 8, 2022