A caravan of immigrants from Central America reached the US border on Sunday, preparing for a confrontation with US immigration officials. Before handing themselves over and claiming asylum, the 400 or so immigrants were given support by hundreds of people on the other side. The immigrants gathered at Tijuana’s border wall to meet with several […]

On Thursday, the Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, announced the launch of a new municipal ID card for undocumented immigrants and others in the city. The move is intended as a way to reach out to Hispanic voters and those opposed to the immigration policies pursued by President Donald Trump. The IDs will be available

The Trump administration has abolished a plan to put on hold an immigrant orientation program, which assists tens of thousands of immigrants with the complicated US immigration system. The Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, made the announcement on Wednesday, during prepared remarks in front of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee. Ever since the Trump administration had decided

With a crackdown on the popular H-1B US visas, hundreds of wealthy immigrant Indians have begun using another program that promises to fast track their way to getting a green card. Applications from Indians for EB-5 US visas, which provides green cards to immigrants who invest a minimum of $500,000 in projects resulting in the

Passport holders in India who want to travel to the US will soon find the immigration procedure easier than ever, according to Bharath Kumar Kuthati, the Regional Passport Officer (RPO) in Bengaluru. Kuthati says that the new arrangement comes in the wake of a memorandum of understanding between the US and India, which enables citizens

The Trump administration has faced its biggest setback so far in its attempts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which protects many young undocumented immigrants from the threat of deportation, with a federal judge ruling on Tuesday that the protections will need to remain and that new decisions should begin to be

The best-educated immigrants from sub-Sahara Africa are more likely to head to the US than any country in Europe, according to an analysis of data from the 2015 US Census Bureau and Eurostat, conducted by the Pew Research Center. 69% of immigrants aged 25 and over in the US had college experience, a higher figure

More than two years since Ted Dallas, the Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services announced that its license would not be renewed by the Department, dozens of families waiting for decisions on their immigration cases are still being housed by the Berks Family Detention Center. Immigrant rights advocates are calling for the detention

On Monday, President Donald Trump said that he had given the Department of Homeland Security orders to ensure that any immigrant ‘caravans’ trying to enter the US via the southern border be turned back. Trump announced the decision, as has been his style, via Twitter, simultaneously slamming poor border security and the Democrats for inspiring

The US Supreme Court faces its first big showdown over the immigration policies pursued by President Donald Trump, on Wednesday, when the justices will hear a challenge to the legality of the travel ban implemented on individuals from several Muslim-majority nations. The case will be a test of the limits of the President’s power. The

The new restrictions on family-based immigration to the US imposed by President Donald Trump, as well as other stricter immigration policies, have had no effect on the number of Filipino immigrants heading to Hawaii, according to the island’s new Philippines consul general, Joselito Jimeno. On Thursday, in an interview with The Maui News, Jimeno said