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When will the TPS decision go into effect?

7/26/26 Because of the Supreme Court’s procedures, the decision will not formally go into effect until 32 days after the ruling was issued. That means that until late July, roughly 350,000 Haitians and 4,000 Syrians with TPS keep their status. It also means that in other cases where the Trump administration advanced similar legal arguments, the government must return to

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Will The US Congress Protect Dreamers

 7/26/26 Congress has a chance to take steps to protect hundreds of thousands of immigrants who are facing the likely prospect of job loss, arrest, and deportation after a Supreme Court decision last month empowered the Trump administration to dissolve the critical protections for nearly any reason. Beginning July 20, members of the U.S. House of Representatives can support a petition that would force

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DACA renewal delays fuel worries Trump is quietly undermining ‘Dreamers’

The backlog of renewal cases for DACA recipients awaiting processing at USCIS has increased dramatically, and approvals have ground to a halt. Politico 6/20/26 Concerns are mounting on Capitol Hill and among immigration advocates that the Trump administration is quietly gutting a landmark program allowing unauthorized immigrants who came to the U.S. as children to stay, work and study legally

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Confusion and Worry After Abrupt Change to Green Card Process

Immigrants and their advocates and lawyers are trying to interpret a new Trump administration rule that requires people to be in their native country to apply for a green card. On Friday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the agency that oversees the green card system, said that only in “extraordinary circumstances” would people already in the United States be granted

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Trumps Deportations are costing Americans Jobs

NYT 5/21/26 The Trump administration has long claimed that mass deportations would deliver more jobs and higher wages to American-born workers. But a new study casts doubt on that assertion, undermining a central tenet of the president’s immigration policy. Recent surges in deportations have led to job losses for both immigrant and American-born workers, while wages have stayed flat, according

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Deported Despite DACA: Dreamers Face Uncertainty Under Trump

The administration has said DACA isn’t a right to stay in the United States “indefinitely.” One man with DACA was detained and deported to Mexico in a matter of days. May 15, 2026, 5:00 a.m. ET There had to have been a mistake, Martin Padilla recalled telling the immigration agents. An inspector in the oil and gas industry, he was about

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