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Trump Administration Increases Worksite Investigations to Combat Illegal Immigration

On Monday, the Trump administration announced that has drastically increased the number of worksite investigations and audits to ensure that U.S. businesses do not employ individuals who are in the country unlawfully. According to immigration officials, they have launched over 3,500 worksite investigations, which is already double the amount of cases in comparison to the prior fiscal year. ...

U.S. Must Keep DACA and Accept New Application, According to Federal Judge

Last month, a D.C. federal judge ruled that the federal government must continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and reopen it to new applicants. This decision has been the most resounding rejection yet of the Trump administration’s efforts to end deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants. Judge John D. Bates of Federal District Court for the District of ...

Why Immigration Courts Are Deeply Flawed

In a recent episode of Last Week Tonight , host John Oliver took on a serious topic: the United States’ dysfunctional immigration court system. The segment included several former and current immigration judges who described the horrors of immigration court, even going so far as to say that “[they’re] doing death penalty cases in traffic court setting.” That’s correct, the results of an ...

USCIS Reaches H-1B Cap for FY 2019

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has reached the congressionally-mandated H-1B visa cap of 65,000 for the fiscal year 2019. In addition, the agency has also received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to fulfill the 20,000-visa U.S. advanced degree exemption, which is known as the “master’s cap.” Keep in mind, petitions filed for current H-1B workers who have been counted ...