On Monday, Andrew Cuomo, the Governor of New York, pardoned seven undocumented immigrants who faced deportation from the US because of minor criminal offenses committed years ago. Cuomo said New York believes diversity is its greatest strength and that it intends to continue to protect its immigrant communities, regardless of the often–controversial policies currently pursued […]

On Monday, 11 aid groups and 32 prominent former diplomats for the US warned Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State, against eliminating an important refugee bureau in the State Department, saying that doing so would be a grave error. The former national security advisors and diplomats, who have worked with both Republican and Democratic

With students heading back to school, the biggest school district in Tucson is examining the nature of its responsibility, if any, for the education of hundreds of immigrant minors separated from their parents after their illegal crossing of the US border. Governing Board Member, Kristel Foster, has posed the question of whether educating the kids

Although hundreds of immigrant children have been reunited with their parents following their separation at the US border, according to the federal government, new documents reveal an increase in the number held at shelters in Texas, with private groups hoping to build up to four new facilities to cope with the demand. A Texas regulatory

A couple of policy memos recently circulated by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) could result in sudden US visa denials and individuals being referred for deportation from the US, according to immigration attorneys. The most recent memo, released last week, changes policy by enabling immigration officials to reject applications for US visas if information

Republicans scored a political victory in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, after the House voted 244-35 to give its official support to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the vote aimed to force Democrats to choose a stance as progressives try to have the agency abolished. But, Democrats avoided choosing a position and tried to

Immigration is now at the top of the list of the most important problems faced by the US, according to Americans surveyed in a new monthly poll, beating the government to the top spot for the first time since January 2017. In June, 14% of Americans viewed immigration as the nation’s biggest problem, but in

Six US states, including New York, are suing the federal government. This is due to the Trump administrations attempts to make the receipt of millions in federal law enforcement funding dependent on cooperation with federal immigration authorities. Connecticut, New Jersey, Washington, New York, Massachusetts, and Virginia filed the lawsuit on Wednesday, claiming that the Department

US Immigration Fund has announced that US Citizenship and Immigration Services continue to issue EB-5 US visas to immigrants who have invested in the Boca Raton Via Mizner project organized by US Immigration Fund, with the investors also ultimately getting back their original investment of $500,000. The final stage of the EB-5 US visa process

On Tuesday, attorneys who represented two immigrant minors reunited with their parents in the state of Connecticut said that they hoped the cases would serve as models for future lawsuits by other immigrant families separated after illegally crossing the US-Mexico border as a result of the zero-tolerance immigration policy adopted by the Trump administration. Governor

San Antonio is one of four cities in the US where the reunification of immigrant families separated by the zero-tolerance policy of the Trump administration at the US border is being helped by faith-based organizations. The immigration policy has since been rescinded and a federal judge has ordered the government to reunite the families by