Immigration enforcement, PERM suspensions and legal access strain workers and communities

Reporting describes detention, work-authorization and SNAP pressures, citizen and child detentions, deportations, and ICE tactics; projections of 12.1 million pending cases and a 33%–50% decline in legal immigration need verification. DOL has reportedly suspended new and pending PERM applications for eight employers, including Microsoft and Adobe, without automatically canceling existing H-1B visas or issued green cards; the First Circuit also left Rasha Alawieh’s expedited removal in place after finding it lacked jurisdiction to review her case.