Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, with their Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) division, arrested an undocumented Mexican immigrant on Friday. He had been released from custody in New York City, despite the filing of a detainer with local authorities, which was not honored even though the man has several convictions for sexual abuse misdemeanors. […]

Senate President of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), Arnold I Palacios, says that improving immigration status for long-time guest workers will help workplace issues in the region, even if this might be unpopular. In an interview, Palacios said that his comments were about guest workers who have been in the CNMI longer

Massachusetts’ top federal prosecutor is ramping up the prosecutions of undocumented immigrants who have returned to the US after deportation and wants to ensure the general public is aware of his efforts. William Weinreb, acting US Attorney for The District of Massachusetts, says that while the caseload against such immigrants is still being built up

Pakistan has suffered a fall of up to 40 percent in the number of US visas granted to its citizens since President Donald Trump was sworn into office in January. This is despite the nation not being one of the countries on Trump’s list of travel bans. The number of non-immigrant US visas granted to

More permanent residents in the US are applying to gain full citizenship, according to new figures from US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). In 2015, there were 782,975 applications for citizenship filed, a figure that rose to almost a million last year as Donald Trump’s Presidency campaign promises to deport undocumented immigrants became more serious.

A legal aid group released an analysis on Thursday, which claims that up to 600,000 undocumented immigrants living in various states could have a pathway to gain legal residency in the US. The Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC) has performed a statistical review of all immigrant screenings. Its findings show that about 15 percent of

The number of juveniles who are arrested while trying to gain access to the US continues to grow on a yearly basis. At the same time, so does a rather obscure program, which has given legal status to many of these minors, as well as a pathway to getting a green card. This increase could

Nearly 200 people were arrested in the Los Angeles area by federal immigration agents in a dragnet that lasted five days and was targeted at criminal undocumented immigrants, according to US officials on Thursday. A total of 188 people were arrested by agents in the operation, which was aimed at criminal aliens who were still

The number of immigrant refugees coming into the United States every month has seen a sharp decline in the 2017 fiscal year so far, falling to 3,316 last month in comparison to 9,945 in October of last year, an analysis of data from the US State Department by the Pew Research Center has revealed. Nearly

An imam originally from Pakistan faces being deported back to his home country after being held in detention by US immigration agents for abusing the US visas of his religious workers. Hafiz Abdul Hannan, the leader of the Masjid Al-Islam mosque in New Haven, Connecticut since 2013, was arrested on Friday at his home, according

A vote on legislation supported by Democrats as a way to counter the crackdown on illegal immigration begun by President Donald Trump has been indefinitely suspended by leaders of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. The bill would have blocked the use of state funds to execute agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to have local