Forty years ago this month, Congress passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA), a law intended as a grand bargain.

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The Trump administration has awarded the New York-based non-profit International Rescue Committee (IRC) a $20 million contract to provide virtual professional advancement services to up to 1,334 ...

In 1996, Congress rewrote a key provision in the INA that governs how immigration officers are to inspect, expel, deport, and (most importantly for this matter) detain or release aliens who arrive in ...

It turns out President Trump’s promised “mass deportations” won’t require dragnets and cattle cars after all. This summer ICE racked up the largest numbers of arrests of illegal aliens ever recorded, ...

Section 101(a)(27) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) designates various categories of aliens as “special immigrants” who are eligible for lawful permanent resident (LPR) status – that is, ...

The Center defines the term “sanctuary jurisdictions” as U.S. cities, counties, and states with: laws, ordinances, regulations, resolutions, policies, or other practices that obstruct immigration ...

The Trump administration recently expanded the eligibility period of the Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) and Refugee Medical Assistance (RMA) programs available to all refugees and other Office of ...

Under section 208(a)(1) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), any alien “physically present in the United States or who arrives in the United States ... irrespective of such alien's status, ...

When the definitive history of Joe Biden’s presidency is written, it will likely conclude that his most important legacy was unprecedented immigration levels. The U.S. foreign-born population (legal ...

Recent federal regulatory actions against IT giant Cognizant – highlighted by the U.S. Department of Labor suspending its Permanent Labor Certification (PERM) filings for green cards amid fraud ...