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Boston Globe
2 days ago
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Migrants in US face more uncertainty after Supreme Court ruling
Immigration lawyers reported that they had been fielding calls from families asking whether they should continue to go to work or school. Their clients, they say, were given permission to live and work temporarily in the United States. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Related : Advertisement Now, with that permission revoked while legal challenges work their way through lower courts, many immigrants fear that any encounter with police or other government agencies could lead to deportation, according to lawyers and community leaders. Guerline Jozef, executive director of immigrant rights nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance, said some Afghan, Haitian and Ukrainian families were already planning to migrate north to Canada, as about 30,000 Haitian families had done in 2017 during the first Trump administration. Jozef said thousands of Haitians who had followed the protocol set by the U.S. government for humanitarian parole felt blindsided by the Supreme Court decision. 'They feel they can no longer survive in the United States,' she said. Advertisement The court Friday allowed the Trump administration to revoke temporary legal status granted during the Biden administration to more than 530,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The decision was a response to an emergency request by the Department of Homeland Security, effectively killing a program that had granted humanitarian parole to nationals from those four countries. Beneficiaries were able to fly directly to the United States and remain for two years if they had passed background checks and secured a U.S. sponsor. Related : The largest number of recipients are from Haiti, with 213,140, and Venezuela, with 120,760, according to official data. But how many of the parole recipients would be immediately vulnerable to deportation is difficult to know because some have applied for other legal pathways or deportation protections. Last week, a federal judge in Boston blocked Trump officials from pausing renewal of applications for many of those programs. An unknown number of migrants have also applied for asylum or for what is known as Temporary Protected Status. While a Supreme Court decision earlier this month revoked that protection for an estimated 350,000 Venezuelans, it is still valid for Haitians until Aug. 3. And the Supreme Court's ruling that the government could not summarily deport people, as the Trump administration did in the case of more than 100 people sent to El Salvador, has effectively mandated a measure of due process for people facing deportation. Related : 'No one can be put on a plane immediately,' said Kathleen Bush-Joseph, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute. 'People may have ongoing court cases or pending applications for relief, such as asylum.' Advertisement Still, in Austin, Texas, Kate Lincoln Goldfinch, an immigration lawyer, said she had been advising her clients for months to apply for multiple forms of protection. 'My concern is ICE is going to be moving to remove all of these people as quickly as possible without due process,' she said, referring to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Extra protection wasn't enough for Belen, 47, a teacher from Venezuela. She arrived in the United States in late 2022, one of the early beneficiaries of the Biden humanitarian parole program. The following year, she applied for Temporary Protected Status, after President Joe Biden declared that conditions in her home country made it risky for nationals to return. She thought TPS would give her an extra layer of security until her partner's asylum application was approved and he could sponsor her for a green card. But the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration's decision to revoke TPS for Venezuelans. And Friday, the court allowed the administration to revoke humanitarian parole for Venezuelans and others. 'I never thought it would come to this,' said Belen, who spoke on the condition that she not be identified by name because she is concerned about being targeted by immigration enforcement officials. Belen, who works as a special-education teacher, said she was planning to meet with a lawyer to figure out her next steps. 'If there is no solution, I will return to my country because I don't want to remain here illegally.' For Jerome, the end of protections for many Haitians could upend not only his community in Ohio but the lives of many people in Haiti who depend on relatives in the United States for support. Advertisement He works nights at an Amazon distribution center, and his partner, Muriel, works days. While they have both filed asylum applications recently, their fate remained unclear, he said. 'If my work permit is cut off, how will I send money to my father and family?' Jerome said Friday. 'Sometimes I have thought of going to Canada, but I don't have family there to receive me,' he said. 'I have only distant cousins.' Jerome said that he had also heard that people who tried to cross the northern border were being detained. Only those with documents attesting to close kin living there were allowed to enter. In New York, Sandra Sayago is a co-owner of El Budare Café along a stretch of Roosevelt Avenue in Queens that has turned into a hub for Venezuelans who have arrived in the country in recent years. 'I think most Venezuelans are wondering day by day about what will happen,' Sayago said, expressing frustration over the nation's rapidly shifting immigration policies. She added, 'We're in limbo.' The end of the parole program is likely to ripple through the U.S. economy as employers are forced to let its beneficiaries go. 'This will have a massive impact on businesses,' said Jennie Murray, president of the National Immigration Forum, an advocacy organization. 'It will be a huge destabilizing moment for the economy,' she said. A large senior living provider in northern Virginia, Goodwin Living, has 65 workers with some form of temporary status that allows them to live and work in the United States. Among the 13 Haitians employed there, four are vulnerable following Friday's court decision, according to Lindsay Hutter, chief strategy and marketing officer. Advertisement 'It gives us heartache that these team members contributing to our economy, supporting the residents of our senior living communities and contributing to the fabric of our society in Virginia are now at risk of returning to an environment that is precarious and dangerous,' she said. 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Mint
3 days ago
- Politics
- Mint
Trump gets SC nod to revoke legal status of 5 lakh migrants; Lady Victoria Hervey says, ‘We need this in UK'
The Donald Trump-led dispensation has hailed the Supreme Court's decision to cancel a Joe Biden-era immigration programme that granted legal status to 500,000 people from four countries - Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who entered the US legally under 'humanitarian parole' programs. Following the Supreme Court order, Trump shared an image on his official Instagram account featuring dozens of aeroplanes taking off simultaneously, with bold text in the centre reading: "Let the deportation begin." The post also caught the attention of socialite Lady Victoria Hervey, who commented, 'We need this in the UK now.'Trump and his Republican leaders hailed the high court ruling, and said: 'You can't have a situation where the Biden administration can fly in half a million illegal aliens in the last 24 months, and we're having a conversation about, 'Oh, maybe they should get to stay for life,'' Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller was quoted as saying by Politico — although neither the Supreme Court nor any other court has ruled that the Biden-era programmes were illegal. Read | Donald Trump doubles tariff on worldwide steel from 25% to 50%, claims China violated trade deal The Supreme Court has allowed Trump's administration to end temporary legal status, known as humanitarian parole, for over 500,000 migrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua. This decision reverses a lower court's order and could lead to swift deportations while legal battles continue. The programme had been introduced by former President Joe Biden to manage immigration at the US-Mexico border, allowing people to live and work in the United States temporarily for humanitarian reasons or public benefit. Read | 'So much for being nice guy': Donald Trump says 'bad news' is China 'totally violated' trade agreement with US Trump, who returned to office in January, signed an executive order on his first day to halt these parole schemes. His administration argued that the change would help facilitate faster deportations through a process called 'expedited removal.' The Supreme Court's decision was issued without explanation, as is common in emergency cases. However, Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, stating that the move would harm hundreds of thousands of people without a full review of their legal rights. Guerline Jozef, executive director of Haitian Bridge Alliance, one of the plaintiffs, expressed dismay at Friday's decision. "Once again, the Trump administration blatantly proves their disregard for the lives of those truly in need of protection by taking away their status and rendering them undocumented. We have already seen the traumatic impact on children and families afraid to even go to school, church or work," Jozef was quoted as saying by Reuters. The administration called Friday's decision a victory, asserting that the migrants granted parole had been poorly vetted. Ending the parole programs "will be a necessary return to common-sense policies, a return to public safety and a return to America First," Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said. While many of those with parole status are at risk of deportation, at least 250,000 had pending applications for another legal status, according to Karen Tumlin, director of the Justice Action Center, one of the groups suing over the parole termination. Those applications had been frozen by Trump's administration but the freeze was lifted this week, said Tumlin, adding: "Those should be processed right now."
25-04-2025
- Politics
Fears of racial profiling over registration policy for immigrants in US illegally
PHOENIX -- The Trump administration's plan to strictly require anyone illegally in the U.S. to register with the government and carry documentation is stirring up fears of heightened racial profiling even among legal residents, immigrants' rights advocates say. For some, it's a return to a climate from the recent past in which police departments and other law enforcement agencies' insistence on documentation drove immigrants underground and increased public safety concerns. 'It happens already to an extent. ... I think this would make it even worse because how would you know somebody is undocumented?' said Jose Patiño, vice president of education and external affairs for Aliento, an Arizona-based advocacy organization that supports immigrants without documents. 'It creates ambiguity of how you're going to enforce and identify people who are not in the country (legally)." A federal judge sided with President Donald Trump earlier this month in a lawsuit brought by immigrants' rights groups over the policy and the mandate took effect April 11. Trump officials say they are simply enforcing a requirement that has been law for decades. 'The Trump administration will enforce all our immigration laws — we will not pick and choose which laws we will enforce," U.S. Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem said in the statement after the ruling. "We must know who is in our country for the safety and security of our homeland and all Americans.' Under federal law, everyone 14 and older without legal status must self-register and give fingerprints and an address. Parents and guardians of anyone younger must ensure they are registered. Not doing so is considered a crime and a lack of documents risks prison time and fines. The mandate has rarely been enforced under previous administrations. To complicate matters, there have been recent instances of authorities detaining even people born in the U.S. as confusion also sweeps through other federal and state immigration policies. An online appointment app used by temporary residents has sent work permit cancellations since late March, including to U.S. citizens. A growing number of Republican-led states also are refusing to recognize state driver's licenses specially issued for immigrants without documents. Guerline Jozef, executive director of the nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance, says racial profiling already happens at a disproportionate rate to Black migrants. The sudden pivot has aggravated things and people with Temporary Protected Status or who had regular Immigration and Customs Enforcement check-ins have been detained during travel, she said. She decried the whole ordeal as a form of 'psychological warfare." Migrants who were allowed temporary legal residence are not sure if they need to protectively carry documents at all times. 'It is very hard to even communicate with the community members on what to do, telling them they need to know their rights, but they trample on their rights anyway,' Jozef said. 'We are back in the 'show me your papers' era.' The new mandate evokes previous instances of certain groups having to carry documentation. During the time of enslavement in the U.S., freed Black people had to have 'freedom papers' or risk being re-enslaved. During World War II, Japanese Americans were required to register and keep identification cards but were put in incarceration camps. 'The statutes that are on the books about registration have been dormant" for 85 years, said Lynn Marcus, director of immigration law clinics at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. 'There weren't forms to comply with this requirement. It was created in wartime originally.' The renewed strict registration requirement forces U.S. citizens to carry birth certificates or other proof of citizenship at all times, 'especially if they have a 'foreign appearance,'" Marcus said. People who are valid residents or visa holders could potentially be profiled based on factors other than physical characteristics. 'Let's say law enforcement encounters someone in another circumstance — maybe they're reporting a crime,' Marcus said. 'They might not be satisfied with answers if they aren't able to communicate because not all U.S. citizens speak fluent English.' Eileen Diaz McConnell, a professor at Arizona State University's School of Transborder Studies, pointed to the effects of a 2010 Arizona law requiring all immigrants to obtain or carry immigration registration papers. In 2012, the Justice Department sued the state over the law and the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the papers requirement, but those two years when the requirement was in place were a traumatic time for Latino families in the state, McConnell said. 'Parents wouldn't ride together in a car. They were always separated because they were worried they would be stopped,' Diaz McConnell said. 'People don't leave their house.' She has done extensive research on how immigration policies can impact the mental health of mixed households of family members who are American-born and don't have documents. 'In previous years, children report, even if they're U.S.-born, real harm — impacts on their own sleep, worry, not eating, depression,' Diaz McConnell said. 'There will be people who will say things like, 'Well, if you're not undocumented, what do you have to worry about?'" Patiño, whose undocumented parents brought him to the U.S. when he was 6, is accustomed to keeping papers as a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient. He knows others without special status are now panicked. The single mother of one of his U.S.-born former interns has stopped going to the grocery store, church and other places since she lacks documents. 'It's like she's afraid of her shadow or, like, even to go out and throw out the trash,' he said. People who crossed the border without documents are especially unsure whether to register in the wake of international students and others being detained or deported even though they had visas or pending court hearings. 'You're asking people to come out of the shadows and enroll us in a system that most of them probably have not heard of,' Patiño said. 'It seems the administration is trying to go catch-22 with folks. You are in trouble if you do, you're in trouble if you don't.'
25-04-2025
- Politics
Fears of racial profiling swirl over registration policy for immigrants in the US illegally
PHOENIX -- The Trump administration's plan to strictly require anyone illegally in the U.S. to register with the government and carry documentation is stirring up fears of heightened racial profiling even among legal residents, immigrants' rights advocates say. For some, it's a return to a climate from the recent past in which police departments and other law enforcement agencies' insistence on documentation drove immigrants underground and increased public safety concerns. 'It happens already to an extent. ... I think this would make it even worse because how would you know somebody is undocumented?' said Jose Patiño, vice president of education and external affairs for Aliento, an Arizona-based advocacy organization that supports immigrants without documents. 'It creates ambiguity of how you're going to enforce and identify people who are not in the country (legally)." A federal judge sided with President Donald Trump earlier this month in a lawsuit brought by immigrants' rights groups over the policy and the mandate took effect April 11. Trump officials say they are simply enforcing a requirement that has been law for decades. 'The Trump administration will enforce all our immigration laws — we will not pick and choose which laws we will enforce," U.S. Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem said in the statement after the ruling. "We must know who is in our country for the safety and security of our homeland and all Americans.' Under federal law, everyone 14 and older without legal status must self-register and give fingerprints and an address. Parents and guardians of anyone younger must ensure they are registered. Not doing so is considered a crime and a lack of documents risks prison time and fines. The mandate has rarely been enforced under previous administrations. To complicate matters, there have been recent instances of authorities detaining even people born in the U.S. as confusion also sweeps through other federal and state immigration policies. An online appointment app used by temporary residents has sent work permit cancellations since late March, including to U.S. citizens. A growing number of Republican-led states also are refusing to recognize state driver's licenses specially issued for immigrants without documents. Guerline Jozef, executive director of the nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance, says racial profiling already happens at a disproportionate rate to Black migrants. The sudden pivot has aggravated things and people with Temporary Protected Status or who had regular Immigration and Customs Enforcement check-ins have been detained during travel, she said. She decried the whole ordeal as a form of 'psychological warfare." Migrants who were allowed temporary legal residence are not sure if they need to protectively carry documents at all times. 'It is very hard to even communicate with the community members on what to do, telling them they need to know their rights, but they trample on their rights anyway,' Jozef said. 'We are back in the 'show me your papers' era.' The new mandate evokes previous instances of certain groups having to carry documentation. During the time of enslavement in the U.S., freed Black people had to have 'freedom papers' or risk being re-enslaved. During World War II, Japanese Americans were required to register and keep identification cards but were put in incarceration camps. 'The statutes that are on the books about registration have been dormant" for 85 years, said Lynn Marcus, director of immigration law clinics at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. 'There weren't forms to comply with this requirement. It was created in wartime originally.' The renewed strict registration requirement forces U.S. citizens to carry birth certificates or other proof of citizenship at all times, 'especially if they have a 'foreign appearance,'" Marcus said. People who are valid residents or visa holders could potentially be profiled based on factors other than physical characteristics. 'Let's say law enforcement encounters someone in another circumstance — maybe they're reporting a crime,' Marcus said. 'They might not be satisfied with answers if they aren't able to communicate because not all U.S. citizens speak fluent English.' Eileen Diaz McConnell, a professor at Arizona State University's School of Transborder Studies, pointed to the effects of a 2010 Arizona law requiring all immigrants to obtain or carry immigration registration papers. In 2012, the Justice Department sued the state over the law and the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the papers requirement, but those two years when the requirement was in place were a traumatic time for Latino families in the state, McConnell said. 'Parents wouldn't ride together in a car. They were always separated because they were worried they would be stopped,' Diaz McConnell said. 'People don't leave their house.' She has done extensive research on how immigration policies can impact the mental health of mixed households of family members who are American-born and don't have documents. 'In previous years, children report, even if they're U.S.-born, real harm — impacts on their own sleep, worry, not eating, depression,' Diaz McConnell said. 'There will be people who will say things like, 'Well, if you're not undocumented, what do you have to worry about?'" Patiño, whose undocumented parents brought him to the U.S. when he was 6, is accustomed to keeping papers as a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient. He knows others without special status are now panicked. The single mother of one of his U.S.-born former interns has stopped going to the grocery store, church and other places since she lacks documents. 'It's like she's afraid of her shadow or, like, even to go out and throw out the trash,' he said. People who crossed the border without documents are especially unsure whether to register in the wake of international students and others being detained or deported even though they had visas or pending court hearings. 'You're asking people to come out of the shadows and enroll us in a system that most of them probably have not heard of,' Patiño said. 'It seems the administration is trying to go catch-22 with folks. You are in trouble if you do, you're in trouble if you don't.'
Washington Post
25-04-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Fears of racial profiling swirl over registration policy for immigrants in the US illegally
PHOENIX — The Trump administration's plan to strictly require anyone illegally in the U.S. to register with the government and carry documentation is stirring up fears of heightened racial profiling even among legal residents, immigrants' rights advocates say. For some, it's a return to a climate from the recent past in which police departments and other law enforcement agencies' insistence on documentation drove immigrants underground and increased public safety concerns. 'It happens already to an extent. ... I think this would make it even worse because how would you know somebody is undocumented?' said Jose Patiño, vice president of education and external affairs for Aliento, an Arizona-based advocacy organization that supports immigrants without documents. 'It creates ambiguity of how you're going to enforce and identify people who are not in the country (legally).' A federal judge sided with President Donald Trump earlier this month in a lawsuit brought by immigrants' rights groups over the policy and the mandate took effect April 11. Trump officials say they are simply enforcing a requirement that has been law for decades. 'The Trump administration will enforce all our immigration laws — we will not pick and choose which laws we will enforce,' U.S. Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem said in the statement after the ruling. 'We must know who is in our country for the safety and security of our homeland and all Americans.' Under federal law, everyone 14 and older without legal status must self-register and give fingerprints and an address. Parents and guardians of anyone younger must ensure they are registered. Not doing so is considered a crime and a lack of documents risks prison time and fines. The mandate has rarely been enforced under previous administrations. To complicate matters, there have been recent instances of authorities detaining even people born in the U.S. as confusion also sweeps through other federal and state immigration policies. An online appointment app used by temporary residents has sent work permit cancellations since late March, including to U.S. citizens. A growing number of Republican-led states also are refusing to recognize state driver's licenses specially issued for immigrants without documents. Guerline Jozef, executive director of the nonprofit Haitian Bridge Alliance, says racial profiling already happens at a disproportionate rate to Black migrants. The sudden pivot has aggravated things and people with Temporary Protected Status or who had regular Immigration and Customs Enforcement check-ins have been detained during travel, she said. She decried the whole ordeal as a form of 'psychological warfare.' Migrants who were allowed temporary legal residence are not sure if they need to protectively carry documents at all times. 'It is very hard to even communicate with the community members on what to do, telling them they need to know their rights, but they trample on their rights anyway,' Jozef said. 'We are back in the 'show me your papers' era.' The new mandate evokes previous instances of certain groups having to carry documentation. During the time of enslavement in the U.S., freed Black people had to have 'freedom papers' or risk being re-enslaved. During World War II, Japanese Americans were required to register and keep identification cards but were put in incarceration camps. 'The statutes that are on the books about registration have been dormant' for 85 years, said Lynn Marcus, director of immigration law clinics at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. 'There weren't forms to comply with this requirement. It was created in wartime originally.' The renewed strict registration requirement forces U.S. citizens to carry birth certificates or other proof of citizenship at all times, 'especially if they have a 'foreign appearance,'' Marcus said. People who are valid residents or visa holders could potentially be profiled based on factors other than physical characteristics. 'Let's say law enforcement encounters someone in another circumstance — maybe they're reporting a crime,' Marcus said. 'They might not be satisfied with answers if they aren't able to communicate because not all U.S. citizens speak fluent English.' Eileen Diaz McConnell, a professor at Arizona State University's School of Transborder Studies, pointed to the effects of a 2010 Arizona law requiring all immigrants to obtain or carry immigration registration papers. In 2012, the Justice Department sued the state over the law and the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the papers requirement, but those two years when the requirement was in place were a traumatic time for Latino families in the state, McConnell said. 'Parents wouldn't ride together in a car. They were always separated because they were worried they would be stopped,' Diaz McConnell said. 'People don't leave their house.' She has done extensive research on how immigration policies can impact the mental health of mixed households of family members who are American-born and don't have documents. 'In previous years, children report, even if they're U.S.-born, real harm — impacts on their own sleep, worry, not eating, depression,' Diaz McConnell said. 'There will be people who will say things like, 'Well, if you're not undocumented, what do you have to worry about?'' Patiño, whose undocumented parents brought him to the U.S. when he was 6, is accustomed to keeping papers as a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient. He knows others without special status are now panicked. The single mother of one of his U.S.-born former interns has stopped going to the grocery store, church and other places since she lacks documents. 'It's like she's afraid of her shadow or, like, even to go out and throw out the trash,' he said. People who crossed the border without documents are especially unsure whether to register in the wake of international students and others being detained or deported even though they had visas or pending court hearings. 'You're asking people to come out of the shadows and enroll us in a system that most of them probably have not heard of,' Patiño said. 'It seems the administration is trying to go catch-22 with folks. You are in trouble if you do, you're in trouble if you don't.'
