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The Trump Administration’s new budget is urging Congress to cut all funding, including staff for the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman (OIDO)! OIDO is an independent, internal watchdog within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Their mission is to examine and oversee conditions of immigration detention and ensure that individuals are treated humanely.

When Trump first came into his second term, he cut funding and staff to OIDO, effectively eliminating it without Congress!

For more information, please read the NJ Spotlight News article, “Black box’: Trump administration moves to wipe out ICE watchdog “!

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UPDATE: Explore American Immigration Council’ interactive map to get more comprehensive information on U.S. immigration data and its impact!

The American Immigration Council (AIC) has released all fifty states and the District of Columbia, for a total of fifty-one updated state-by-state fact sheets highlighting immigration data and facts. These fact sheets highlight the demographic and economic impact of Immigrants in each state.

With national immigration policy being discussed, we thought that it would be a good time to provide some statistics on the Immigrant population in the United States as provided by this AIC research. Once a week we will be posting a blog with information on three states at a time. This week we will highlight; Oklahoma, Oregon and Pennsylvania!

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USCIS has an online Electronic Reading Room with access to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requested documents. The Reading Room is really a Web-based searchable database of public requested FOIA documents; mixed with USCIS documents that the government decided may have a larger public demand. You can use pull-downs to choose different listed subjects and include any month/year date from January 2011 to the present. You can also type in your own keywords to search.

Please visit this page for more information: Electronic Reading Room

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