HOP Haven members spread awareness of pressing immigration-related issues and post a wide variety of helpful resources, such as practice for the civics exams or contact information of local immigration attorneys.
July 2020
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…
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