On Wednesday, the Justice Department told 29 cities, counties and states in the US that they are believed to be in violation of laws prohibiting their ability to limit the amount of information they share with federal immigration officials, and demanded details demonstrating their compliance. The move could see the jurisdictions becoming part of a […]

Janet Napolitano, the president of the US University of California (UC), says that Congress should pass legislation to protect young undocumented immigrants, including students. The UC press release saw Napolitano joined by Leon Panetta, the former Defense Secretary, James Clapper, the former director of National Intelligence, and Madeline Albright, the former Secretary of State, in

On Tuesday, Dave Brat, 7th District Representative, unveiled a mandate that would strengthen immigration enforcement, including the enforcement of mandatory verification, as part of an apparent compromise by Congress to try to protect the hundreds of thousands of Dreamers currently residing in the US. House Resolution 430, also known as the American Labor, Wages &

On Tuesday, the immigration enforcement officers of the US launched a website, claiming that President Donald Trump needs to do more to clean up Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which they say has members of the Obama administration still in place and holding back immigration enforcement. In Philadelphia recently, supervisors banned ICE officers from wearing

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump picked immigration hardliner Tom Homan as the new permanent director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Homan has already served in the position, in an acting capacity, for the last ten months. He has run the agency since the resignation, in January, of Sarah Saldana, who was appointed during the

On Monday, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that 25 undocumented immigrants, eligible for deportation from the US, were arrested during an operation on Long Island. 24 of the immigrants taken into custody also had prior convictions for driving a motor vehicle while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Officials say that at

The standard waiting period for immigrants who have applied for US citizenship has doubled, following a surge of applications before and since last year’s Presidential election. The massive rise in the number of applications has resulted in a nationwide backlog of over 708,000, according to KPCC, a media partner of NBC4. The processing time in

Greater scrutiny of employers for immigration enforcement on worksites will come into force in 2018. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting director, Thomas Homan, has said that enforcement levels will increase at workplaces by around four or five times the current level. Immigration experts say that employers need to heed the warning and

School walkouts and rallies are anticipated today in up to three dozen places, as part of an effort to push lawmakers into legalizing the status of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the US as minors. Supporters in Dallas are likely to demonstrate outside the workplace of Republican Senator, John Cornyn. 29-year-old

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has asked a Detroit federal judge to force the release of around 1400 Iraqis, held in detention for almost five months by immigration authorities as they fight to avoid deportation back to a home country where they claim to face torture. In July, a judge declared that they could

The program that allows immigrants from Nicaragua to live in the US without fear of deportation will end in January 2019, the US government has announced. The decision will affect thousands of Nicaraguan immigrants who will either have to find another legal avenue by which to remain in the country or leave the US. Nicaraguans