legal immigration

Last Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas extended and “re-designated” the country of Venezuela for Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The announcement will make approximately 472,000 Venezuelans eligible for TPS benefits, including protection from deportation and work permits.

Temporary Protected Status was created in the Immigration Act of 1990.  In general, the federal government may grant TPS to nationals of a foreign state based on: (1) armed conflict; (2) environmental disaster; or (3) extraordinary and temporary conditions in their home countries.  Except for armed conflict, the statute also requires that the conditions in the foreign country be of a temporary nature. But there are even further restrictions. . . .  Read more about DHS Extends Temporary Protected Status, Work Authorization to 472,000 Venezuelans

EAGLE PASS, Texas — An estimated 1,500 mostly Venezuelan migrants entered the small border town of Eagle Pass, Texas,  during the late evening hours on Tuesday. The latest group of migrants to surrender to authorities brings the eight-day total of migrant crossings to more than 16,000. It took ten full days in September 2021 for 15,000 mostly Haitian migrants to ford the river during the infamous immigration surge in Del Rio.

In just over a week, Breitbart Texas observed more than 16,000 migrants stream across the Rio Grande from Piedras Negras, Coahuila, to Eagle Pass. Despite the heavy presence of local, state, and federal law enforcement, Texas military soldiers, and layers of razor wire, the migrants crossed the border into Texas unscathed. . . . Read more about Migrant Surge in Texas Border Town Outpacing Haitian Crisis of 2021

Last week, the Home School Legal Defense Association alerted followers that a family of homeschoolers from Germany living lawfully and peacefully in the U.S. for more than a decade are under threat of being deported back to Germany by the Biden administration despite that they will assuredly face persecution upon their return.

“A German homeschool family who thought they’d found protection in America from persecution have been told they must leave,” the HSLDA told supporters.

Homeschooling remains one of the freedom-loving options that liberals hate the most. . . . Read more about As Biden Allows Illegals to Pour Over the Border, Homeschooling Family Faces Deportation

“Despite the happy talk coming out of the Biden administration, claiming that their policies have reduced illegal immigration, the July Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data show precisely the opposite. Overall CBP encounters in July were 245,286, up from 238,929 in July 2022. Even Southwest Border encounters between ports of entry – which had been artificially reduced because the administration has been massively abusing its parole authority to allow many inadmissible aliens to enter – rose sharply in July, even as temperatures soared into the triple digits. . . . Read more about Nearly a Quarter of a Million Illegal Migrant Encounters in July Shows Illegal Immigration is Not Abating, Says FAIR

The Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) Refugee Program is invitingcommunity partners to apply for a portion of $4.6 million in funding that is available to provide services and support to certain individuals from Ukraine or those who entered through the Uniting for Ukraine program. 

The deadline to apply is March 27, 2023, and the application can be found online. . . . Read more about $4.6 Million To Oregon Ukrainian Refugees Available to Ukraine Partner organizations

More and more countries are readjusting their asylum and immigration policies under the current onslaught of asylum seekers. Switzerland is now also pulling the emergency brake and does not want to take in any more “refugees”. A “temporary freeze on admissions”, it is said from Bern, is necessary because capacities are exhausted

.Specifically, this means that Switzerland is suspending its participation in the United Nations refugee program. After the arrival of thousands of refugees from Ukraine, the reception capacities are currently exhausted, said the spokesman for the State Secretariat for Migration, Lukas Rieder. The Swiss are now showing the stop sign to migrants from other countries. This also affects “refugees who are particularly in need of protection” selected by the UN. . . . Read more about Switzerland declares a freeze on admission for ‘refugees’

More and more countries are readjusting their asylum and immigration policies under the current onslaught of asylum seekers. Switzerland is now also pulling the emergency brake and does not want to take in any more “refugees”. A “temporary freeze on admissions”, it is said from Bern, is necessary because capacities are exhausted

.Specifically, this means that Switzerland is suspending its participation in the United Nations refugee program. After the arrival of thousands of refugees from Ukraine, the reception capacities are currently exhausted, said the spokesman for the State Secretariat for Migration, Lukas Rieder. The Swiss are now showing the stop sign to migrants from other countries. This also affects “refugees who are particularly in need of protection” selected by the UN. . . . Read more about Switzerland declares a freeze on admission for ‘refugees’

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, Moscow has so far failed to break Kyiv’s resistance, albeit not without causing a tremendous deal of death, suffering, and destruction. In fact, the Ukrainian forces pushed back the Russians in September in a counter-offensive, prompting Vladimir Putin to declare a partial mobilization to beef up the Kremlin’s military after it suffered significant losses. Anti-war protests followed as a result, and many young men began fleeing the country to avoid conscription. . . . Read more about Debate Over Allowing In Russians Fleeing Mobilization Raises Important Concerns

(June 1, 2022, Washington, D.C.) — Yesterday the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) submitted a public comment in response to an interim final rule (IFR) that is explicitly designed to facilitate the release of asylum seekers at our southern border, many of whom submit fraudulent or frivolous claims. . . . Read more about FAIR Comments on Rule Designed to Encourage More Illegal Immigration and Fraudulent Asylum Claims

“Today’s announcement is yet another example of the Biden administration usurping congressional authority through an expansive and illegal use of humanitarian parole. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has continually abused the limited discretion delegated by Congress in order to run his own mass immigration and refugee program. . . . Read more about Lawless Destruction of our Nation’s Immigration Limits and Controls Continues, Charges FAIR