By Carolina Canizales, Senior Texas Campaign Strategist & Anita Gupta, Staff Attorney, Immigrant Legal Resource Center Sometimes advocates like ourselves working in the immigrant rights and criminal (in)justice space disagree over whether we think a policy or law benefits the communities we serve. That is good; it means we are thinking critically about what impactful policy is. …

By Nithya Nathan‑Pineau​, Policy Attorney & Strategist at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) was created to adjudicate humanitarian, employment, and family-based immigration applications. According to recent reports, without a $1.2 billion infusion of cash from Congress, USCIS will face a budget shortfall…

By Nithya Nathan‑Pineau​, Policy Attorney & Strategist at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center While the COVID-19 pandemic shut down daily life for many Americans sheltering at home, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents continued their daily work of incarcerating and deporting immigrants and shamefully furthered the spread of COVID-19 around…

By Nithya Nathan‑Pineau​, Policy Attorney & Strategist at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center As the country and world unite to stand in solidarity with Black lives and rise up against police brutality and racism — the Trump administration’s attacks on our communities have been persistent and unabating. Trump’s attack on…

By the Immigrant Legal Resource Center For almost three years now, Trump’s demand for a border wall has been a major recurring theme in the news cycle. Time and time again, we’ve heard the chilling and offensive chant: Build that wall! Build that wall! And yet, while his chants and…