Adding Your Voice to the Fight for Immigrants’ Rights | ACS

The violent immigration enforcement techniques from the Trump Administration are rightfully gathering large public consideration. Public consideration and participation are additionally wanted within the rulemaking course of, because the Trump Administration is weaponizing administrative rules that have an effect on due course of and eligibility for presidency packages. At the moment, unprecedented insurance policies are being proposed to limit the rights and protections afforded to immigrants in the USA. These insurance policies have the potential to interrupt methods designed to guard basic rights, clear the way in which for decreasing entry to judicial overview by expediting elimination procedures, threaten the housing stability of blended standing households, and add extra hurdles for immigrants to lawfully work. 

Including your voice can probably affect the substance and the velocity of the unprecedented rules being proposed by authorities companies that form our immigration insurance policies.  

Listed below are three energetic notices that may have an immense influence on shaping immigration coverage:  

The Division of Justice has proposed an interim ultimate rule to alter the executive appellate overview course of by the Board of Immigration Appeals. This would scale back the enchantment window of choices by Immigration Judges and refuse appeals except the Board of Immigration Appeals unanimously grants it. The impacts of this rule shall be felt instantly and shall be extreme. The remark interval runs till March 9 and feedback may be submitted right here.  

The Division of Housing and City Growth is looking for remark on a proposed rule that might revise HUD’s Part 214 implementing rules to require the verification of U.S. citizenship or the eligible immigration standing of all candidates and recipients of help, no matter age.  These amendments would have important implications for housing stability and the due course of protections of mixed-status households. Feedback could also be submitted right here by April 21. 

The U.S. Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) is looking for remark on a proposed rule to modify rules governing purposes for asylum and withholding of elimination (asylum purposes) and employment authorization based mostly on a pending asylum utility. The proposed rule would change submitting and eligibility necessities for non-US Nationals requesting employment authorization and an employment authorization doc (EAD) based mostly on a pending asylum utility. The adjustments embody pausing acceptance of EAD purposes from asylum candidates during times when affirmative asylum common processing time exceeds 180 days, extending the ready interval to use for employment authorization to three hundred and sixty five days, altering EAD utility processing time necessities, and including eligibility necessities. Feedback could also be submitted right here by April 24.  

In the end, our democracy is determined by extra than simply our elections. It requires steady participation. By taking the time to touch upon proposed rulemaking, People can contribute to a extra inclusive and clear policymaking course of that upholds our values. 

If you’d wish to be taught extra about ACS’s Discover and Remark initiative, please go to our webpage right here.