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This week Americans for Prosperity and The LIBRE Initiative submitted a public comment in response to the State Department’s proposed information-collection request regarding immigrant health insurance coverage. As it is currently written, the State Department’s proposal creates unanswered questions and relies on ambiguous standards that will cause confusion and potentially disrupt the immigration system. The … Read More

Juan and Graciela Alvarez are senior pastor and associate pastor, respectively, at Templo Casa de Dios in Mission, Texas. Mission touches the Mexican border, and the Hispanic community at the church is strong. Today, much of the congregation at Templo Casa de Dios is made of Dreamers, those who were brought to the United States … Read More

If you came to America legally, worked hard, succeeded and even became a pillar of your community, you could still lose to the immigration system in the United States. That’s exactly what happened to Kor Mulder and his family. The Mulders — Kor, his former wife and two sons — moved from Holland to Minnesota … Read More

By Evelyn Marquez Rodriguez It has been one year since the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, was officially ended. For some, perhaps that year has flown by. But for me, without a permanent solution to replace the legal status DACA offered, time crawls agonizingly slow. I’m a legal resident, though, so it’s … Read More

If you implement policies that make it more difficult to enter the country legally, would that unintentionally increase unlawful immigration?  Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd thinks so. He told CNN that a new asylum policy — requiring some asylum seekers to go back to Mexico while their cases are pending in U.S. immigration courts — is like “opening up a Pandora’s box:”  “This is … Read More