Category Archives: Immigration Facts

Through most of 2025, Salvadoran citizen Kilmar Armando Ábrego García has been in the custody of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Since his initial arrest in March 2025, he has been transferred to detention facilities in Maryland, Texas, El Salvador, and Tennessee. As of early September, his case against deportation was …Read More

Crossing traffic at the United States border with Mexico has been at historically low levels since President Donald Trump returned to the White House for a second term. There’s a heavier presence of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents augmented by soldiers, and more deployments are planned. The flow of migrants seeking asylum has been …Read More

Since 2019, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been issuing fraud alerts to the public about strange phone calls purportedly made by agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The calls are made to mobile phones. The recipients invariably report seeing numbers that correspond to DHS and ICE offices displayed on their …Read More

During the political campaign for the 2024 general election, former United States President Donald Trump relied on immigration enforcement rhetoric to make himself attractive to his most ardent supporters. Some of his talking points about a “deportation task force” to remove millions of migrants were rehashed from his previous campaigns. Nonetheless, one particular point caught …Read More

Everyone who enters the United States must go through passport control and a customs check. This is a strict rule with only a few exceptions, such as diplomatic delegations, federal agents on duty, and entire military units returning from overseas deployments. For the most part, travelers go through passport control before they go through customs …Read More

Many of the news stories reported from the border between the United States and Mexico center on immigration checkpoints, which often conjure mental images of busy facilities with long lines of cars, armed border patrol agents, inspection stations, fences, and razor wire. These facilities are formally called “ports of entry,” and they’re operated by the …Read More

The hot-button political issue of American immigration seems to get more complex and controversial each year. In 2023, Texas Governor Greg Abbott and his Attorney General announced proposals to prevent individuals from China and Russia from acquiring real estate, but the first draft of the state bill in question didn’t make a clear and sufficient …Read More

During the worst months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) suspended many of its operations in order to adjust to public health measures intended to prevent contagion. As a result of these measures, thousands of petitions for naturalization were put on hold. In some cases, immigrants with more than …Read More

Whenever you see a sustained influx of immigrants anywhere in the world, you can be assured that cultural change will take place at some point. This is one aspect of immigration that advocates and opponents are quick to agree on, but both sides will invariably argue about whether this is positive or negative. Opposing Views …Read More

In 2022, the best way to describe the immigration waiting list in the United States is to say that it’s extremely long and getting longer. When they look at reports compiled by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, San Diego residents can get an idea about the gargantuan backlog the agency is currently dealing with—4.1 million …Read More