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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A Department of Justice administrative law judge has issued an opinion that in a very real sense has erected a wall separating American citizens from American jobs. He ruled that an employer can ...

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 ...

On September 16, CBP released its “Nationwide Encounters” statistics, its year-to-date (through August 31) recap of the number of illegal migrants apprehended by Border Patrol and “applicants for ...

Nearly 17,000 aliens filed petitions seeking U visa protections in the first six months of FY 2026, according to the latest statistics released by USCIS. Another 11,000 filed petitions as family ...

On September 10, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) — the DOJ tribunal that reviews certain immigration court decisions — issued an opinion in Matter of V-S-A-, concluding an immigration judge (IJ ...

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 ...