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"But last month, on their way home to Wisconsin after honeymooning in Puerto Rico, an immigration agent pulled Mu?oz aside in the airport. "Are you an American citizen?" asked the agent. She answered no, she wasn't. She's from Peru. But she and her husband had taken the legal steps so that one day she might get U.S. citizenship. Millions of Americans, including Bartell, had voted for President Donald Trump's promise to crack down on "criminal illegal immigrants." But eight weeks in, the mass deportation effort has rapidly expanded to include immigrants whose application for legal status in the country is under review. Even those married or engaged to U.S. citizens are being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, USA TODAY has learned." #immigrationnews #immigrationmatters #immigrationlaw #immigrationlawyer

"Several high-profile arrests and deportations in recent weeks have sparked fear among visa and green-card holders that they could be targeted by the Trump administration." “We’re seeing this kind of extreme escalation in immigration enforcement that’s even surpassing the promises of the Trump administration prior to coming into office,” said Lynn Damiano Pearson, a National Immigration Law Center attorney." #immigrationnews #immigrationmatters #immigrationlaw #immigrationlawyer

"Indian green card holders are increasingly facing secondary inspections and overnight detentions by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at American airports. According to TOI's Lubna Kably, immigration attorneys have reported a growing trend of CBP officials questioning elderly Indians who spend winter months in India and pressuring them to voluntarily surrender their green cards by signing Form I-407. Under the US Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), a lawful permanent resident (LPR), or green card holder, returning to the US after an absence of more than 180 days is treated as seeking "re-admission" and becomes subject to grounds of inadmissibility. Although green card abandonment is typically considered when someone stays outside the US for more than a year, attorneys are now seeing increased scrutiny even for shorter absences."

"This week, Homeland Security officials said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement carried out more than 32,000 arrests in the first 50 days of the Trump administration. According to data released by Customs and Border Protection, that includes over 14,000 migrants with criminal convictions, nearly 10,000 with pending criminal charges, and over 8,700 they call immigration violators. Those numbers include the deportation of a 10-year-old U.S. citizen girl recovering from brain cancer after her undocumented parents were arrested last month." #immigrationnews #immigrationmatters #immigrationlaw #immigrationlawyer

"A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the United States, even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers. Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, is a Lebanese citizen who had traveled to her home country last month to visit relatives. She was detained on Thursday when she returned from that trip to the United States, according to a court complaint filed by her cousin Yara Chehab." #immigrationnews #immigrationmatters #immigrationlaw #immigrationlawyer #ustravelban

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"The Trump administration is considering targeting the citizens of as many as 43 countries as part of a new ban on travel to the United States that would be broader than the restrictions imposed during President Trump’s first term, according to officials familiar with the matter. A draft list of recommendations developed by diplomatic and security officials suggests a “red” list of 11 countries whose citizens would be flatly barred from entering the United States. They are Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen, the officials said." #immigration #immigrationmatters #immigrationlaw #immigrationlawyer

"The country's 47.8 million immigrants paid nearly $652 billion in taxes in 2023, per a recent analysis, with undocumented immigrants paying nearly $90 billion of that total. Why it matters: The numbers underscore how immigrants, both documented and otherwise, contribute to the U.S. economy and government services, even as the Trump administration looks to increase mass detention and deportation." #immigration #immigrationmatters #immigrationlaw #immigrationlawyer

"The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 requires employers to verify the identity and work eligibility of all individuals they hire. According to the Migration Policy Institute, this act was the first major attempt by Congress to address illegal immigration. According to an ICE spokesperson for the Houston region, I-9 inspections promote compliance with the law. The spokesperson said 20 people were arrested during an I-9 audit at Texas Couplings LLC, a warehouse in Spring. They said all twenty people did not have legal status and were taken to the Montgomery County Processing Center."

"Ukrainian immigrants who fled the ongoing war with Russia and now live in the U.S. with temporary legal status told NBC News they are terrified they could soon face deportation back to an active war zone. In Ukraine, life as they once knew it has long been bombed away." #immigration #immigrationmatters #immigrationlaw #immigrationlawyer