Undocumented Filipinos

NEW YORK — The most famous undocumented Filipino in America has a new book on what’s it’s like to be living in the shadows, and the psychological tolls that come with it. “My relationship with my mama is...

Around 1,820 children, ages 5 to 17, according to the Department of Homeland Security, have been reunited with their families by Thursday evening — meeting the deadline, the DHS said, that a California judge set last month....

As the immigration debates continue from the border to Capitol Hill, Filipinos are also being swept up in their Southern California homes. The Philippine consulate has verified that between June 7th through the 14th, five Filipinos...

ELIZABETH, NJ — It took nearly two hours for 7 congressional members to be allowed entry into this ICE detention facility in Elizabeth, New Jersey. “This is a perfect example of the disorganization that they have, this...

CALIFORNIA — Immigration officials have rounded up two Philippine nationals in its latest operations. ICE has announced that they have arrested 162 immigrants in several Southern California counties. Two Filipinos were among those arrested. This series of...

The Supreme Court Justices have ended a provision in federal immigration law that they consider unconstitutionally vague — and now, a Filipino immigrant is spared from deportation. With President Donald Trump appointee, Justice Neil Gorsuch, casting the...

NEW YORK — After spending a month inside the Hudson County Jail, Filipino undocumented immigrant Larry Villena posted bond, and was finally released on Wednesday afternoon.   “Anong masasabi niyo, Nakalabas na kayo? Masya po masaya, hindi...

The latest developments on President Trump and the future of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, DACA....Read More

My dad has an approved sibling petition — but when he came to the U.S. in 2003, he didn’t bring us with him because he wanted to be established first. Plus, we were minors then and were...

A book deal from one of the country’s most high profile undocumented Filipinos. Pulitzer prize-winning journalist turned immigrant rights activist Jose Antonio Vargas has signed a book deal with Harper Collins Imprint Dey Street Books. Vargas,...