legal immigrants

Trump Proposal Would Penalize Legal Immigrants for Getting Tax Refunds. Under a new leaked version of the rule reportedly being considered, use of government benefits -- with few exceptions -- could hurt an immigrant's chances of becoming a permanent legal resident. by J.B. Wogan | March 29, 2018. (AP/Mark Duncan).

Erica Putnam, manager of Fulmont Community Action Agency's Gloversville field office, takes a phone call. She is one of two Fulmont staffers who have been certified in immigration law to assist people to become naturalized citizens. (The Leader-Herald/Eric Retzlaff). FONDA — Becoming an American ...

FRANKFORT, KY. (WKYT) - Dozens of immigrant families, living in Kentucky on legal work visas, took to Frankfort on Saturday, calling the federal immigration system broken and unfair. That's because even though they are living in the United States legally, they are still facing the threat of deportation, ...

The promise that with hard work anyone in the United States can pursue their dreams and achieve success continues to attract large numbers of immigrants from around the world. Around one million are admitted as lawful permanent residents each year. Under the administration of President Donald Trump ...

Earlier this year, the Trump administration announced that it would terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 260,000 Salvadorans who live in the US. As a result, Nelsy Umanzor, a Salvadoran TPS holder, is now at risk of losing the temporary legal status that allowed him to work and ...

For legal immigrants, there is a “clearly disparate impact” from the SOC process, according to a letter the groups sent to Haskell last week. While such agreements don't result in a conviction under state law, under immigration law they amount to a “conviction in perpetuity,” said Vanessa Mathisen-Nelsen, ...

I am for the DACA immigrants, as long as they have a job to support themselves, do not take taxpayers' money for welfare, and prove that they were children when they came to the United States and not adults. If they are going to stay, the first thing they should be required to do is speak English just like the ...

Patrick Bowles, at his home in Bethel, is battling red tape to help his wife return from the Philippines, her home country. Sunday, Feb. 11, 2018. Photo: Scott Mullin / For Hearst Connecticut Media. Image 2 of 13. Patrick Bowles, at his home in Bethel, is battling red tape to help his wife return from the ...

The Trump administration, in another effort to reduce legal immigration, wants to deny permanent residence to hundreds of thousands of foreigners living legally in the United States. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is proposing to deny so-called “green cards” to legal immigrants and their ...

If Trump starts treating legal immigrants who receive federal benefits as deadbeats, what's to stop him from applying that term to citizens, too? Photo: AFP/Getty Images. The administration doesn't just want to restrict legal and illegal immigration — it wants to make more immigrants illegal and thus ...

We have legal immigrants and illegal aliens. The term "undocumented" suggests that a mere lack of paperwork is the problem, when the real issue is that someone is in this country when they shouldn't be. No amount of subsequent paperwork can right an earlier wrong — that of illegal entry into the country.

I read the Long Journey, Long Day story in Sunday's Idaho Press-Tribune. What a great article about legal people coming into this community for work. Your story gave them names and faces. These smiling and happy folks are glad to be here, you could see it in your pictures. Some of them come to this ...

SAN ANGELO, TX -- 36 people from three countries became United States citizens Wednesday at the O.C. Fisher Federal Building in San Angelo. San Angelo mayor Brenda Gunter was the keynote speaker at the ceremony where U.S. Magistrate Judge E. Scott Frost presided as the new citizens took the ...

The concerns are wide-ranging: Legal immigrants who came to the US as children but waited upwards of a decade before their family could get a green card -- only to be too old to count as immediate family. High-skilled immigrants who have had their visas continually renewed as they wait for a green card ...

Researchers with the libertarian think-tank used 2015 data from the Texas Department of Public Safety to measure the criminal conviction and arrest rates of three groups: illegal immigrants, legal immigrants and native-born Americans. They found the conviction and arrest rates for both types of immigrants ...

But thanks to the bipartisan efforts of the patriots in our Justice Department, the Trump administration will remain free, for the moment, to indefinitely imprison any legal immigrants and asylum-seekers it wishes to deport. And Trump wishes to deport quite a few — although he'll need to get much more ...