Temporary Protected Status- An Overview
WHAT IS TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS? Temporary Protected Status (TPS) provides immigrants with protection from removal if their home country is deemed unsafe to return to. The US Secretary of Homeland Security may grant a country TPS in the event of environmental disasters such as earthquakes or epidemics, political uprisings and upheavals such as civil wars,…
President Joe Biden’s immigration policy: an overview
Since taking office, President Joe Biden has enacted several policies which roll back changes made under President Donald Trump. While the country has not yet fully returned to the way it was before Trump, Biden has taken steps toward righting some of the wrongs of the past four years. Here is an overview of the…
Attacks on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
Introduced by then-President Barack Obama in 2012, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) allows immigrants to the United States who arrived in the country illegally as children to remain here. The policy, which was created via executive order, allows those immigrants to apply for a two-year period of deferred action, during which they are safe…
Changes to immigration policy under President Donald Trump: An overview
Since his inauguration in January 2017, Donald Trump has made a number of changes to the nation’s immigration law that have negatively affected both migrants entering the country and those already here. In addition to the infamous southern border wall and illegal ban on immigrants entering from several majority-Muslim countries, in fiscal year 2018, Trump…
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