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State-Court Amnesty for Illegal Alien Juveniles?
« on: December 01, 2019, 06:29:32 pm »
State-Court Amnesty for Illegal Alien Juveniles?

November 19, 2019
 

WASHINGTON—The Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI) has submitted a public comment to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) calling for reforms to prevent the abuse of a little-known but growing green card program for juvenile aliens who have been declared to be dependents of a state juvenile court. Typically, the beneficiaries of this program, called the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) program, have been unlawfully present in the United States before receiving their green cards.

The government originally proposed regulations for SIJS visas in 2011. Due to infighting between federal adjudicators and anti-borders lobbying groups, the regulations were never finalized. The Trump administration reopened the period for public comment in October 2019, after issuing a series of administrative decisions emphasizing that federal law prohibits granting SIJS visas primarily as an immigration benefit.

https://www.irli.org/single-post/2019/11/19/State-Court-Amnesty-for-Illegal-Alien-Juvenileshttps://www.irli.org/single-post/2019/11/19/State-Court-Amnesty-for-Illegal-Alien-Juveniles
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