Tens of thousands of Cuban immigrants living in the US are having to adjust to a harsh new reality, with many now facing the same risk of deportation as other immigrants. This follows decades of being blessed with a favored immigration status, since the Cold War. Many Cuban immigrants feel betrayed by the Obama administration […]

A fifth of the immigrant population of the entire world resides in the US, according to a newly-published study by the Pew Research Center. The study has revealed that over 40 million people, who currently live and work in the US, were born overseas, making it the world’s most immigrant-populated country. Large numbers of these

A 19-year-old, arrested and taken into custody at Monterey County Jail by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), will not be deported after a federal judge dismissed removal proceedings against him. ICE took Juan Manuel Martinez into custody in March after he had agreed to a no-contest for the misdemeanor of trespassing. But Martinez, who

The acting chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued a warning to the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the US, saying that any illegal border crossers can be deported. Thomas D Homan told a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing that all undocumented immigrants should be looking over their shoulders because no

Federal data has revealed that tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants have received work permits from the Trump administration under the deferred action program created by President Barack Obama. This is despite President Donald Trump saying that he would end the program as soon as he became President. Trump had once called the Deferred Action

On Monday, President Donald Trump again faced a legal setback, as another federal appeals court declined to grant his travel ban to prevent people from certain countries coming to the US. The dispute now seems certain to be heading to the Supreme Court. Narrow grounds were used to reject the bid by the Trump administration

On Sunday, dozens of Chaldeans in metro Detroit were arrested by agents of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and now face the prospect of deportation from the US, according to Chaldean community leaders. The Chaldean Community Foundation president, a Christian advocate for Iraq-Americans, Martin Manna,  says that almost 40 arrests were carried out at

A Michigan House committee has passed legislation intended to ban cities from operating as ‘sanctuary cities’ by refusing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities and to punish those that still insist doing so. The House Local Government Committee has sent bills to the full House, which would result in the prohibition of such policies in

Millions of undocumented immigrants currently living in the US face possible deportation as a result of President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement orders. The Pew Research Center estimates that there are as many as 70,000 undocumented immigrants currently living in Arkansas. With much fear of the Trump administration’s policies, a coalition of human rights activists in

An official with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has sent a letter to the Mayor of Denver, Michael Hancock, saying that searches carried out at courthouses in the state will continue, despite requests from local officials to end the practice. In the letter, Matthew T Albence, the executive associate director of Immigration and Customs

On 1 June, the US Government Accountability Office issued a report showing that the case backlog of US immigration courts has more than doubled from the 2006 fiscal year through to 2015. There are currently as many as 437,000 cases pending, with hearings scheduled for February 2022 by at least one court. At the beginning