BREAKING: The 5th Circuit has ruled on #DACA, largely upholding a lower court ruling finding the policy unlawful.

It allows renewals to continue temporarily & has sent the case back to the lower court to consider @POTUS's new DACA regulation, which goes into effect on 10/31. To be clear: This decision doesn't change who can currently apply for or renew DACA for now.

And at the same time, immigrant youth CANNOT continue to live under unceasing politicized attacks on DACA, and thus, their lives.

This painful uncertainty must end. #HomeisHere

Since @POTUS took office, Texas has challenged virtually every action by the administration, attacking abortion access, environmental protections, and any attempt to make our immigration system more humane.

Texas’ litigation tactics are as awful as its motives and here's why: Learn what judge shopping is and why it's dangerous.

🚨BREAKING: @JoaquinCastroTX, @RepTedLieu, @SenWarren & @SenAlexPadilla introduced the Citizenship for Essential Workers Act, which would provide 5 mil.+ undocu workers a path to citizenship.

#ImmigrantsAreEssential & millions risk their lives to keep our country running. 1/ #ImmigrantsAreEssential, not just to our economy, but to our communities & our nation.

While many of us are able to stay home, millions of immigrants in our communities are working high-risk jobs to care for our loved ones, teach our kids, keep us fed & deliver our goods. 2/

🚨BREAKING: Today, the Biden administration agreed to end all SCOTUS appeals of the previous administration’s #PublicCharge ‘wealth test’, which targeted low-income immigrants and their families. This paves the way for ending this dangerous & racist rule.

🧵A thread 1/ Trump’s public charge ‘wealth test’ was cruel & dangerous to the health and well-being of our nation. It threatened the health, nutrition, and housing of millions of families and has impeded our ability to fully recover from the pandemic. 2/

🚨BREAKING: The Senate passed the $1.9 trillion #AmericanRescuePlan, providing necessary relief to our communities—including 2.2 mil. more people in mixed-status families. Though we celebrate this victory, the bill once again unfairly excludes 9.3 mil. immigrants from relief. 1/ Rejecting @SenTedCruz’s effort to block stimulus checks for undocu immigrants is a big win for immigrant communities. 2.2 million additional families will now be included in relief.

This is the result of advocates who organized to ensure inclusion of ALL of our communities. 2/

🚨BREAKING: @RepRoybalAllard, @NydiaVelazquez & @RepYvetteClarke reintroduced the Dream & Promise Act today, which would permanently protect 3.1 mil. immigrants.

NILC has fought for #DreamAct since 2001 & won’t stop until ALL immigrants in the U.S. have the freedom to thrive. 1/ #DACA recipients, TPS holders & immigrants covered by DED belong here: they're living, working & building their futures here.

In fact, more than 200,000 DACA recipients are essential workers, keeping this country afloat & helping in our COVID recovery. #ImmigrantsAreEssential 2/

We applaud @SenatorMenendez & @RepLindaSanchez for introducing the #USCitizenshipAct today. This bill is a significant step toward a path to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants—including a fast track for #DACA recipients, #TPS holders & farmworkers.

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https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1362361036129632261

#USCitizenshipAct would:
✅Create a path to citizenship for 11 mil. immigrants
✅Begin to address root causes
✅Fortify worker protections
✅Remove barriers to family-based immig.
✅Put limits on exec. authority to issue bans
✅Restore asylum
✅Replace "alien” w/ “noncitizen”
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🚨HAPPENING NOW: @MarielenaNILC is testifying before @HouseJudiciary.

Join us as we live tweet — we'll be here to remind you that #ImmigrantsAreEssential & that we need bold immigration reforms, starting with a path to citizenship.

📺TUNE IN HERE: ow.ly/mNcw50Dw2ue “It is estimated that 3 in 4 undocumented workers are engaged in work that is deemed essential.” -@RepJerryNadler

#ImmigrantsAreEssential

NILC forcefully denounces the ongoing hate crimes & bigotry targeting Asian Americans, and the recent rise in attacks on AAPI elders.

We stand in solidarity with AAPI communities in their pursuit of equity & justice. 1/4

ow.ly/zGWB50DxgI4 Since the start of COVID, Asian Americans have increasingly become targets of racially-motivated attacks & racist rhetoric. All the while, they're disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, grappling with unemployment, high-risk health care work & economic instability. 2/4

🚨BREAKING: @POTUS has begun the process of undoing the #PublicCharge immigrant ‘wealth test.’ This commitment to reverse one of the most harmful policies of the Trump administration is a colossal step toward ensuring we all have the freedom to thrive. 1/4 The public charge ‘wealth test’ stoked fear & confusion in our communities, causing many immigrants to choose between feeding their loved ones and accessing essential health care during a global pandemic. The rule is harmful & racist. 2/4

🚨BREAKING: @POTUS took a number of positive immigration-related actions today, including:
✅Began the process of undoing the Public Charge “wealth test”
✅Created a Task Force to Reunify Separated Families
✅Addressed the “Remain in Mexico” Policy

1/4 .@POTUS also took action on the following today:
✅Ensured more protections and legal avenues as part of a more robust regional migration strategy
✅Reestablished the Taskforce on New Americans

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🚨BREAKING: A federal court has largely allowed our case with @splcenter challenging a 2018 workplace raid to proceed. The raid took place at an East Tennessee meat processing plant where federal agents illegally targeted Latinx workers.👇1/6

ow.ly/BAp050DppDw In April 2018, dozens of DHS & IRS agents descended on the Tennessee meat processing plant, detaining approx. 100 Latinx workers. This created chaos & deep pain in the lives of these families, forever changing the community. @tnimmigrant has worked to support & empower them. 2/6

🎉 VICTORY! A Brooklyn court ruled in our case with @MaketheRoadNY and @WIRACYls on DACA that Chad Wolf was not lawfully serving, and his memo was not lawfully issued. We are still reading the opinion and will provide more details soon. @MaketheRoadNY @WiracYls We knew the memo issued by Chad Wolf was another cruel and divisive move that sought to upend the lives of over a million immigrant youth while Trump schemes to dismantle #DACA. This decision confirms that the Wolf Memorandum was not lawfully issued in the first place. 2/

BREAKING: We just filed our lawsuit against the Trump admin on #DACA with @MakeTheRoadNY, @WIRACYls, our brave plaintiffs, and four new immigrant youth plaintiffs. The complaint challenges the legality of the Chad Wolf memo from July 28th. THREAD 👇 1/ cbsnews.com/news/young-imm… @MaketheRoadNY @WiracYls .@DHSgov’s memo drastically altered #DACA by rejecting all first-time applications, limiting the availability of advanced parole, and shortening the length of DACA renewal grants from two years to one year (essentially DOUBLING the cost of renewals). 2/

https://twitter.com/NILC/status/1288201037447172096

THREAD: For our new report, we interviewed several immigrant service providers and identified a common pattern: the new DHS public charge regulation generated confusion and concern in immigrant communities across the country even before it was implemented. ow.ly/hSbI50yy23t Researchers @manatt estimate that as many as 26 million people could be chilled from accessing health, nutrition, and housing programs because of fear and misinformation about the rule. ow.ly/ImIn30qllr8

We are deeply disturbed by weekend reports of 60+ Iranian-Americans, including US citizens, being detained for hours at a time at US port of entry by CBP. Negah Hekmati, a US citizen traveling with her husband & two young children, were held & questioned for 5 hours. 1/

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1214616594036527106

If this type of profiling sounds familiar, it’s because the aftermath of profiling & targeting Muslim and Middle Eastern communities that ramped up in 2001 are still being felt today. @DHSgov can’t infringe on people’s basic rights or profile people based on their nationality. 2/

Plaintiffs and attorneys have exited the #SCOTUS hearing on #DACA. Rally still going strong outside.

Upcoming: Some quick takes from the hearing. #HomeisHere 1/ It was a heated argument. Nearly all the justices had tough questions for both sides. 2/

BREAKING: Today the Supreme Court failed to uphold one of our founding principles — no indefinite detention. #SCOTUS held that immigrants can be detained indefinitely for a crime they might have been released from years ago, w/o an opportunity for bail. 1/ usatoday.com/story/news/pol… This means immigrants who paid their debt to society years ago are forever subject to being torn apart from their families and placed in detention without a chance to make their case to be released on bail. 2/

BREAKING: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit today upheld a lower court’s ruling to block @realDonaldTrump’s termination of DACA, allowing ~800,000 DACA recipients nationwide to submit renewal applications. 1/ #DefendDACA ✊

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1060609056270901248

@realDonaldTrump Attention DACA recipients! The future of #DACA is uncertain but your ability to renew your DACA is in your hands. If you have DACA, or have had DACA in the past, you can still file to renew. Learn more at @UnitedWeDream unitedwedream.org/renew-my-daca/ & @FWDus informedimmigrant.com 2/

Votes were still being counted in some precincts, but turnout shattered previous midterm records across the coast, and voters made history by sending diverse leaders to state houses and to Washington. 1/ #ElectionDay Republicans, who held majorities in both chambers of the U.S. Congress since 2012, lost control of the House despite a late push by President Trump & some candidates to fear monger and scapegoat immigrants in order to increase voter turnout among Trump supporters. 2/ #ElectionDay

🚨BREAKING: In an extraordinary move, the Trump administration just asked the Supreme Court to take up three federal court orders currently blocking Trump’s termination of #DACA. Thread ↓ 1/ #DefendDACA This is the Trump administration’s second attempt to sidestep the normal process of appellate review and throw #DACA in front of the Supreme Court before the three federal appellate courts have decided the issues. 2/ #DefendDACA