On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it will shut down a program that had given some young adults and children from three countries in Central America the opportunity to a legal immigration pathway, allowing them to join their parents in the US. The decision will shut down part of the Central American […]

Cities that will not share information with immigration authorities are blatantly disrespecting the rule of law and jeopardizing public safety. This is according to Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, who says the latter is government’s most fundamental duty. Sessions spotlighted those cities that do give their cooperation to federal immigration authorities while visiting Miami yesterday, with

Since the 2015 fiscal year, the number of US asylum claims from Venezuelans has quadrupled, and the number of people trying to escape oppression in their own country threatens to become even higher, with conditions deteriorating. Experts fear that the US might be caught unprepared if it does not begin making preparations now to help

A restaurant in the Houston area has combined forces with the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by joining IMAGE, their employment compliance program, otherwise known as the ICE Mutual Agreement between Government and Employers. Joe Neel McGovern, the owner of Pappa Yolk’s Grill in Pasadena, was happy volunteering to

An academic specializing in immigration has dismissed the estimate of 50,000 undocumented Irish immigrants living in the US. He calls the estimate, long cited by the US government, ‘pure invention’ with no evidence to back it up. Dr Piaras Mac Einri made the comments to The Irish Times in the wake of similar comments by

Cities and counties in the US are preparing to fight to avoid being denied millions of dollars for public safety, which the Trump administration says will be withheld as a high-stakes battle over sanctuary policies begins. While some cities and counties are changing their immigration policies, others are heading to court. President Donald Trump has

A group of law scholars is calling on President Donald Trump to keep the deferred action program, currently protecting hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children from the threat of deportation, and has outlined a legal argument for why it should be maintained. On Monday, around 100 immigration

Those objecting to the federal government’s crackdown on so-called sanctuary cities, which protect undocumented immigrants from deportation, do so partly on the grounds that such tactics make immigrants unwilling to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) pursue genuinely dangerous immigrant criminals, such as the notorious MS-13 gang. But, officials claim they have several tools to

A US district judge, based in Austin, has nixed an attempt by Texas to have a law declared as constitutional, which would punish ‘sanctuary cities’, a month before the measure was set to take effect. The law, backed by the Republican Party, is the first of its type since Donald Trump was sworn in as

On Wednesday, job search site, Hired, released data that shows companies in the US are having second thoughts about hiring overseas tech workers, given the uncertainty over the future of current immigration policies under the Trump administration. US firms issuing requests for interviews to foreign technology workers fell by as much as 60 percent between