As California moves ahead with policies intended to limit the cooperation that the state’s law enforcement agencies can give federal agencies on immigration-related offenses, authorities are starting to respond in kind. In recent months, agents with US Customs and Border Protection have refused to allow the transfer of suspects wanted for crimes in California. The […]

A new Republican bill could prevent the separation of immigrant minors from their parents at the US border, while also including a further $25 billion for border security and terminating the diversity lottery, with voting on the measure expected as early as next week. A senior party aide confirmed the provision of the new bill

The Trump administration is considering using military bases in Texas as extra temporary shelters for the increasing number of immigrant minors separated from their parents, the Department of Health and Human Services has revealed. The McClatchy news service also said that officials are thinking of erecting ‘tent cities’ to house up to 5000 children at

Catherine Pugh, the Mayor of Baltimore, spent her weekend at the US Conference of Mayor’s annual meeting in Boston. She was given the duty of chairing a task force to fight the plan by the Trump administration to ask respondents on the US Census about their immigration status in the US. Pugh says they have

On Monday, a Boston-based federal judge ordered the release of two undocumented immigrants, ruling that their Constitutional rights had been violated when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained them. US District Court Judge, Mark L Wolf, wrote a 62-page decision in which he slammed the federal agency for not following its own procedures. The cases

The rebellion by moderate Republicans trying to force a vote on immigration in the House of Representatives is expected to succeed this week despite the wishes of party leaders, with the midterm elections just a few months away. The last few Congressional signatures will likely be added in the next few days to the petition

Michael Cohen, the personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, seems to have aided a Florida-based immigration firm to earn millions after they employed his services last year, according to The Associated Press. US Immigration Fund faced a regulatory crackdown on the EB-5 US visa program, which disappeared soon after the firm reached out to Cohen.

Lawyers have won an emergency stay preventing the deportation of an Ecuadorian immigrant who was handed over to immigration agents after he delivered a pizza to a New York army base. On Saturday, the Legal Aid Society said that an emergency stay had been granted to block the deportation of 35-year-old Pablo Villavicencio, who has

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik fully backs attempts to force Congress to hold debates dealing with the fate of young undocumented immigrants who came to the US as minors. Stefanik was one of the first 17 in the so far 215 members of Congress to sign a discharge petition to force the floor of the House of

On Thursday, Congressional Republicans struggled to agree about immigration legislation that a vote could be taken on before the midterm elections in November. Party members disagreed on several key issues, including the fate of Dreamers, the young undocumented immigrants who arrived in the US as minors. Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives,

With immigrant advocates and communities increasingly alarmed by the rise in immigration enforcement under the Trump administration, New York is moving to force federal immigration authorities to be more transparent about who is being stopped and the reasons behind it. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Representative Joseph Cowley, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, last