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By Samantha Schmidt, The Washington Post Immigration authorities arrested Polish doctor and green-card holder Lukasz Niec on Jan. 16. Niec first came to the U.S. in 1979. Lukasz Niec was 5 years old when his parents brought him and his sister to the United States from Poland. With two suitcases […]
In the event the U.S. Senate fails to pass a continuing resolution to continue operating the government until a full budget agreement can be reached, the U.S. Federal Government is expected to “shutdown.” Various Government departments and agencies are involved in handling U.S. immigration matters, and each would be impacted […]
By Charles C. Foster, Houston Chronicle It was understood with the surprise election of Donald Trump that enforcement action against immigrants would increase, striking fear within our large undocumented population, the vast majority of whom have lived and worked peacefully in the United States for decades. After all, President Trump […]
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester, FiveThirtyEight President Trump’s disparaging comments in an Oval Office meeting last week about Haiti and “shithole” (or “shithouse”) African countries felt like the immigration debate had reached a new place. It has — but not just because of that meeting. There’s been a massive conservative shift in the […]