Some Indiana immigration attorneys are wondering what the order’s ultimate impact will be for recent arrivals to the U.S. residing in the state, given the confusion about current immigration law regarding asylum and the crushing backlog of cases in the country’s immigration courts.
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With nothing but the clothes on his back and his cellphone, Ali Noori, his wife and 2-year-old daughter went to the airport in hopes of safely fleeing their country: Afghanistan.
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The Trump administration is throwing out protections that shielded roughly half a million Haitians from deportation, meaning they would lose their work permits and could be eligible to be removed from the country by August.
An asylum halt at the U.S. southern border, which took effect June 5 and has led to a 40% decline in arrests for illegal crossings, applies to all nationalities. But it falls hardest on those most susceptible to deportation — specifically, Mexicans and others Mexico agrees to take (Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans).
Abigail Castillo was about to cross the U.S. border illegally when she heard President Joe Biden was halting asylum. She continued anyway, walking hours through the mountains east of San Diego with her toddler son, hoping it wasn’t too late.
The White House is telling lawmakers that President Joe Biden is preparing to sign off on an executive order that would shut down asylum requests at the U.S.-Mexico border once the average number of daily encounters hits 2,500 between ports of entry, with the border reopening only once that number declines to 1,500, according to several people familiar with the discussions.
At least two Texas border mayors are headed to Washington on Tuesday when President Joe Biden is expected to announce an executive order that will mark his latest and most aggressive plan to curtail the number of migrants allowed to seek asylum in the U.S.
The Biden administration on Tuesday urged an appeals court to allow sweeping new asylum restrictions to stay in place, warning that halting them would be “highly disruptive” at the border.
The Biden administration argued Wednesday that its new asylum rule is different from versions put forward under President Donald Trump in a court hearing before a judge who threw out Trump’s attempts to limit asylum on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The immigration court planned for Indianapolis is expected to open by summer 2024, officials have confirmed to Indiana Lawyer.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita is taking the lead in an 18-state lawsuit challenging a proposed rule from President Joe Biden’s administration that would generally consider those traveling through a third county before reaching Mexico and the U.S.-Mexico border to be ineligible for asylum.
The U.S. government asked the Supreme Court not to lift asylum limits before Christmas, in a filing a day after Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary order to keep the pandemic-era restrictions in place.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Biden administration properly ended a Trump-era policy forcing some U.S. asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico.
The Biden administration has begun expelling Cubans and Nicaraguans to Mexico under pandemic-related powers to deny migrants a chance to seek asylum, expanding use of the rule even as it publicly says it has been trying to unwind it, officials said Wednesday.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday questioned lower court orders that have blocked the Biden administration from ending a controversial Trump-era immigration program for asylum-seekers.
President Joe Biden halted the “Remain in Mexico” policy his first day in office. That policy will be argued Tuesday before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Migrants attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border at the highest level in two decades as the U.S. prepares for even larger numbers with the expected lifting of a pandemic-era order that turned away asylum seekers.
The Biden administration on Thursday unveiled new procedures to handle asylum claims at the U.S. southern border, hoping to decide cases in months instead of years.