It is currently a boom time for the hotel and restaurant trade in Chicago, but as demand grows, so does the need for workers. Many businesses say that more immigration rather than less is the answer to their labor requirements. Chicago on Global Affairs captures these sentiments in a new report. The report analyzes the […]

Applicants to business schools intend shunning business schools in the US because of the Trump administration’s immigration policies, according to a new survey by the admissions firm, Stacy Blackman Consulting. The survey suggests that over 21 percent of candidates feel they have been affected by President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and intend to apply only

Bruce Rauner, the Republican Governor of Illinois, intends to sign into law a bill to protect undocumented immigrants from being held in detention solely on account of their immigration status, his office has revealed. The decision will delight immigrant advocates but is likely to incense some of the more conservative members of his party. Laurel

The crackdown on undocumented immigrants is succeeding as planned, according to senior officials in advance of President Donald Trump’s visit to Yuma, Arizona on Tuesday. The arrests of suspected undocumented immigrants have increased by as much as 43 percent during the first seven months of 2017, compared to the same period in 2016, officials from

A recent Wall Street report claims that the crackdown on immigration policy by the Trump administration is partly responsible for a decline in spending among Hispanic consumers. Researchers at Jefferies say that various consumer companies have flagged weak spending by such customers, and that uncertainty over immigration, rather than any kind of degenerating macro backdrop,

The Trump administration has teamed up with Sheriffs of a similar political bent around the US to create a scheme that will allow undocumented immigrants to be channeled into federal detention straight from local jails. The move could see a vast expansion of the dragnet already transforming the nation’s immigration enforcement. The plan is to

US visa services in Russia have begun to be scaled back, three weeks after Washington was ordered to remove more than 50 percent of its consular and embassy staff by President Vladimir Putin. The move has drawn a furious reaction from Moscow. The decision, the most recent in an array of bilateral moves that have

Thomas Homan, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), denies that the agency locates undocumented immigrants with stingrays, also known as cell-site simulators, in a letter to Senator Ron Wyden, sent on 16 August. Homan told Wyden that ICE continues to follow the guidelines put in place by the Department of Homeland Security

The widow of a US citizen is suing federal government officials over the pending status of her immigration petition, having waited three years for a decision from US Citizenship and Immigration Services. Attorney, Samuel I. Mok filed the lawsuit on behalf of Jun Cui Seman in the District Court on Thursday. Seman wants the federal

The Canadian government released data on Thursday showing that the number of immigrant asylum seekers making an illegal crossing into Canada from the US border more than tripled in July. Immigrants fearful of the crackdown on immigration by the Trump administration are now heading north. According to the federal government, over 3100 immigrants crossed the

Employers in the US intended to pay a median salary of $80,000 per annum to high-skilled foreign workers possessing H-1B US visas. This is a significant increase on $69,000, recorded a decade ago, an analysis of new data from US Citizenship and Immigration Services by the Pew Research Center has revealed. The US government had