A new report from Hindustan Times claims that the US deported 33 Indian and 121 Pakistani undocumented immigrants on 14 February. An unscheduled flight on that date was received by the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, containing deportees from South Asia, and dropped off 33 Indians alleged to be undocumented immigrants in the US. […]

On Wednesday, a top immigration official claimed that up to as many as 800 undocumented immigrants in Northern California managed to avoid arrest because of a warning on Twitter, posted at the weekend by Mayor, Libby Schaaf. In an interview with Fox and Friends, Thomas Homan, the acting chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, blamed

Immigration officials have sent letters to dozens of Burmese refugees living in Iowa, requesting them for interviews, and to provide information validating their immigration status in the US. Refugees from Burma are a group that has grown in number over the last five years, with over 8000 now living in Iowa. Abigail Sui, the program

On Tuesday, in a ruling that lines up with the tougher approach toward immigration embraced by President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court curbed the legal right of immigrants to argue for their release while they are held in long-term detention, awaiting deportation proceedings. The conservative justices in the court ruled 5-3 to overrule a ruling

On Monday, the Supreme Court dealt the Trump administration a setback by forcing them to continue the protections given to ‘Dreamers’ by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, initiated by former President Barack Obama in 2012. The justices refused to listen to the appeal by the administration of the nationwide injunction, issued on

The hardline stance on immigration adopted by the Trump administration may not apply to workers in the agricultural industry. This is according to Sonny Perdue, the Secretary of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). The cabinet official told the annual industry conference USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum that the White House supports the notion of farm

The Trump administration is placing restrictions on firms that contract out high-skilled workers who have H-1B US visas, following the issue of a new policy memo by US Citizenship and Immigration Services, on Thursday. Workers will now need detailed statements about work orders or work for any job performed by an employee in possession of

On Saturday night, the Mayor of Oakland warned the city’s residents that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) may be about to launch immigration raids. Mayor Libby Schaaf released a statement toward the end of Saturday, in which she said that many credible sources had given her reason to believe that ICE is gearing up to

On Thursday, President Donald Trump revealed that he is considering removing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from the state of California, noting that the most populous state in the country would become a ‘crime nest’ without them. The President said that California, which is heavily biased to the Democratic Party, is doing a terrible job

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has made a major alteration to its mission statement, excising a passage that refers to the US being a nation of immigrants. The agency’s director, L Francis Cissna, announced the new mission statement to staff members by email, on Thursday. Cissna said that the new statement offers a clear

The criminal gang known as MS-13 has made a comeback in the US. According to a new analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies, which was released on Wednesday, this comeback is partly because of reduced immigration enforcement during the Obama administration. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers had kept the growth of the gang in