DACA

On June 18th, 2020, the Supreme Court ruled on the future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, a program for immigrants that was created under the Obama Administration in 2012. The 5-4 decision held that the Trump administration could not, at that time, rescind DACA. While the initial headlines and social media …

Covid-19 in Detention Centers

As COVID-19 cases continue to surge across the globe, the United States remains one of the primary epicenters in the Western hemisphere. In particular, there has been ever-growing concern from public health and medical professionals about the handling of COVID-19 within the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also referred to as ICE, detention centers. Although …

Undocumented Essential Workers During COVID-19

The faces of this pandemic are easy to recognize: the doctor covered head to toe in PPE, the teacher lecturing through a computer screen, and of course the essential worker with an N-95 mask and plastic visor carrying our country through a recession on their back. While white-collar and professional sectors have been able to …

Visa ban on immigrant and non-immigrant workers by the Trump administration

President Trump issued a proclamation on June 22, 2020, barring many categories of foreign workers from entering the US. The White House justified this decision as a preemptive one to protect US workers suffering  from unemployment and job insecurity in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The move arrives on the tails of a prior …