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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; Connecticut, Delaware & District of Columbia (D.C.).

The AIC has compiled research which shows that Immigrants are an essential part of each of these states’ economy, labor force and tax base. As our economy continues to grow, Immigrants and their children are a growing economic and political force as consumers, taxpayers and entrepreneurs. As United States economic continues to grow, immigrants and their children will continue to play a key role in shaping the economic and political future of each of these states.

On Thursday, February 22, 2018, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that they changed their agency’s mission statement to REMOVE the passage “a nation of immigrants”!  The USCIS mission statement has already been changed and you can review it on the USCIS “About Us” web page which includes the new mission statement along with their core values.

Below is a comparison of the old and new mission statements:

New version of USICS’s Mission Statement:

On Tuesday, February 27^th, the United States Supreme Court announced their decision to overturn a lower court’s ruling which required that immigrants held by the U.S. government awaiting the outcome of deportation proceedings to get a bond hearing after six months of detention, seeking their release. The 5-3 decision made by ALL five conservative Supreme Court justices, could lead to indefinite detention of certain immigrants, including some with legal status but the government would like to deport on legal grounds.

For more detailed information about this subject, please read the source links below!

Source of Information:

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USCIS advertises that is has an online Electronic Reading Room. It’s really a Web-based searchable document database of public requested Freedom of Information Act (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.

For more detailed information about this subject please review the USCIS, “Electronic Reading Room“ and try it for yourself.