HOUSTON – About two years ago, as part of its anti-immigrant policies, the Trump administration decided to terminate benefits under the temporary protection program known as TPS. Under this program, a little more than 300,000 individuals from El Salvador, Nicaragua, Haiti and Sudan were temporarily protected against deportation due to force majeure incidents in their…
HOUSTON – We were recently talking about the new restrictions proposed by President Trump, to limit the possibilities of applying for or obtaining asylum in the United States. Those restrictions are aimed directly at applications for asylum and the way they are adjudicated. However, the president’s administration has also taken other measures that affect asylum…
After several months of litigation in the courts, a couple of weeks ago the Supreme Court of the United States decided to go forward to the regulation proposed by the administration of President Trump, regarding the denial of visas to immigrants that the government determines if they will or could be a public charge. The…