With the Trump administration moving to further tighten the US borders, an unprecedented number of US asylum seekers have headed to Canada, resulting in Ottawa changing their immigration policy. This was according to the Wall Street Journal, on Wednesday. President Donald Trump began to enact a travel ban on people from certain countries earlier this […]

Recently proposed changes to the US immigration system could slow the progress of medical research, according to several doctors. Around 18 percent of medical professors in the US graduated from medical schools in foreign countries, claims an analysis published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, on Monday. Graduates from foreign medical schools are also responsible

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will start collecting social media information from immigrants in the US from next month, including naturalized citizens and those with current green cards, according to reports from BuzzFeed News. The new regulation, which expands what the DHS can put in an individual’s immigration file, was quietly published by the

On Monday, a mixed decision was issued by a US appeals court about a Texas law aimed at punishing so-called ‘sanctuary cities’. It gave the go-ahead to a section of the law that forces localities to honor requests from federal immigration authorities to perform checks on the immigration status of detainees but blocked many other

The first step towards a new version of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which is to be rescinded by the Trump administration, has been taken by Republican Senators, James Lankford, Orrin Hatch, and Thom Tillis. The SUCCEED Act (Solution for Undocumented Children through Careers Employment Education and Defending our nation) would be

The Trump administration is turning up the heat on parents who pay smugglers to bring their children into the US illegally, officials say. The attempt, which comes as part of the crackdown on all aspects of illegal immigration, is intended to discourage families from using human smuggling operations. A new round of sweeps on immigration

The Democratic Party leader in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has defended her efforts to work on protecting young undocumented immigrants in collaboration with President Donald Trump, saying she will trust him on the issue and that a further joint effort, on infrastructure in the US, could also be on the cards. On Sunday,

On Thursday, a US judge said that he wanted to see quick decisions on lawsuits challenging the decision by the Trump administration to close down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which offers protection from deportation for young undocumented immigrants who were still underage when they arrived in the US. Earlier this month,

2018’s Diversity Visa Lottery Registration opens on Tuesday 3 October, with qualified applicants strongly encouraged to put in their applications for the US visas as soon as they can because system delays in the last days of registration are likely if demand is heavy. Entries need to be submitted via the internet between midday on

On Wednesday, Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, called immigration the biggest issue of the current time. He added that the firm is pushing hard for immigration reform. Cook particularly singled out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which gives work permits and protection from deportation to young undocumented immigrants who were children when

The attorney general of Washington State is suing those in charge of Tacoma’s Northwest Detention Center, saying that the for-profit company has violated minimum wage laws by paying $1 or less per day for immigrant detainees to work for them. Civil detainees awaiting deportation or immigration hearings are held in the detention center, which can