Dozens of the world’s biggest multinational and technology firms have teamed up in an attempt to help ‘Dreamers’ to remain in the US as time runs out on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, created by President Barack Obama.   65 industry and business groups, including the likes of Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple, […]

In recent weeks, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have arrested Cambodian immigrants in California, as the Trump administration pressed forward with attempts to send immigrants who have deportation orders back to their home countries. Up to 100 Cambodians over the US could have been detained, community advocates claim. The US government is continuing to

Key Republicans in the Senate have started private talks about an immigration plan to protect the hundreds of thousands of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, who are known as Dreamers, from deportation and the loss of work permits when the program begins expiring in early 2018. Preliminary talks show that influential

Over two years after the launch of a program in Chicago, offering a free ride to many students at community colleges, city officials are boasting about the increasing number of such students who have since moved on to four-year university courses without debts and with two years of college credit under their belts. The Star

The last seven months have seen an increase in the number of immigrant fathers from Central America crossing the border into the US with their children, according to BuzzFeed News. A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and human rights activists have since confirmed the increase, claiming it is the result of the attempt

On Monday, the Governor of New Hampshire, fellow Republican Chris Sununu, made a public request to President Donald Trump to end the attempt to deport 69 Christians from Indonesia. The group is living in the state illegally after fleeing violence in their home country 20 years ago. The group has been living near the coast

Figures from indiawest.com show an increase of as much as 56 percent for the number of Bangladeshi immigrants coming to the US during the past six years. A 2016 estimate indicates that there are almost 235,000 Bangladesh immigrants now living in the country. The report from indiawest.com indicates that the largest increase in immigration percentages

An estimated 200,000 American children could lose their status in the wake of the decision to cancel the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The Trump administration announced last month that it was to rescind the DACA program, albeit with a delay of six months. This means that program recipients could be deported from

Facebook, Amazon, and several other technology companies in the US are expanding their operations into Mexico as the country tries to capitalize on the anti-immigration stance taken by the Trump administration. Since the beginning of 2017, Facebook has been partnering with local groups to develop tech talent in Mexico, while Amazon.com has opened a new

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to increase its attempts to target businesses and intends to take employers who knowingly employ undocumented immigrants to court, according to the agency’s acting director. Thomas Homan said on Tuesday that the aim of the new policy was to remove the job supply that keeps undocumented immigrants coming to

A new report shows that the immigrant population of the US has hit a new record high of more than 43 million. This follows the enormous boom in both legal and illegal immigration during the last 16 years. The Center for Immigration Studies Center (CIS) has reviewed federal statistics that suggest the figure increases to