VENEZUELAN IMMIGRANTS GET TRUMP SYMPATHY BUT NOT STATUS – STATELINE

October 2, 2018 By: Tim Henderson Venezuelans have been flooding into the United States as their home country faces a severe economic and political crisis. Immigration from Venezuela increased by 21 percent or almost 61,000 people between 2016 and 2017, the largest significant increase in immigrants from one country that year, according to the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank …

HE WENT TO AN IMMIGRATION INTERVIEW AND WOUND UP DETAINED BY ICE – THE MIAMI HERALD

BY BRENDA MEDINA October 01, 2018 07:25 AM María Eugenia Hernández and her Nicaraguan-born husband, Oscar Hernández, went to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices in Miami for an interview about their marriage that they had been waiting for three years. The agency uses such interviews to confirm that the marriages are legitimate and that partners like Oscar have …

ICE DETAINS MAN DURING MARRIAGE INTERVIEW – THINKPROGRESS

REBEKAH ENTRALGO OCT 1, 2018 Oscar Hernández and his wife María Eugenia Hernández waited three years for their marriage interview last week with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). But by mid-interview, the Hernándezes were separated and Oscar was on his way to an immigration detention facility, according to the Miami Herald. USCIS conducts marriage interviews to ensure that marriages are legitimate and …

SU ESPOSO TERMINA ARRESTADO TRAS ASISTIR A UNA CITA CON INMIGRACIÓN PARA LEGITIMAR SU MATRIMONIO – UNIVISION NOTICIAS

VILMA TARAZONA 1 Oct 2018  María Eugenia Hernández acudió a la autoridad migratoria con el fin de demostrar que su matrimonio era válido y su esposo, quien ingresó como indocumentado a EEUU en el año 2005, obtuviera un permiso legal de permanencia, pero al iniciar la cita fue detenido. La Unión Americana de Libertades Civiles (ACLU) presentó una demanda argumentando que …

SOUTH FLORIDA LEADERS REJECT ‘PUBLIC CHARGE’ POLICY THAT DENIES GREEN CARDS FOR WELFARE RECIPIENTS – WLRN

By ALEXANDER GONZALEZ SEP 24, 2018 Several Miami-Dade County commissioners and immigration advocates protested Monday the Trump administration’s proposed policy change that would deny green cards to welfare recipients. “This new rule is forcing legal immigrants to make an impossible choice between following the process to permanent residency and providing for their families,” said Commissioner Eileen Higgins, whose district includes …

POLÍTICOS DE MIAMI PROTESTAN PROPUESTA DE TRUMP DE NEGAR LA GREEN CARD A ESTOS INMIGRANTES LEGALES – THE MIAMI HERALD

POR BRENDA MEDINA [email protected] 24 de septiembre de 2018 06:40 PM Actualizado 25 de septiembre de 2018 06:07 PM Una propuesta del gobierno de Donald Trump que busca negar la residencia permanente a inmigrantes legales que reciban ciertos beneficios públicos ha generado preocupación entre políticos, activistas y abogados de Miami-Dade, que el lunes denunciaron el potencial cambio como “un ataque …

ICE CAN’T BE TRUSTED TO CARE FOR DETAINEES DURING HURRICANES – THE DAILY BEAST

By Maria Barbero September 20, 2018 Just days after the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Irma’s landfall in the Florida Keys, Hurricane Florence has left more than one million homes without electricity and caused catastrophic flooding across the Carolinas. If we can learn anything from Hurricane Irma in Florida, it is the need to pay close attention to how detained immigrants are treated before, during, and after such disasters. …