The Justice Department’s fiscal budget request for the year 2018 contains a provision that would grant it a vast expansion of its ability to compel local police departments to enforce federal immigration laws and get tough with sanctuary cities. The agency is looking to see US Code 1373 be given a sweeping overhaul. US Code […]

The Trump administration wants to sink as much as $44.1 billion into the budget of the Department of Homeland Security in order to increase the number of federal agents who patrol the porous southern border of the United States, a preview of the 2018 budget request from the agency has indicated. The budget request for

On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it had chosen to extend the access of Haitian immigrants to a humanitarian protection program for a further six months. A minimum of 50,000 immigrants from Haiti are registered for the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program, which allows them to remain in the United States

US Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) Chief Information Officer Mark Schwartz said that the E-Verify system is in the process of being streamlined by the agency in order to make it capable of scaling prior to adding any more employers into the existing system. At the present time, being involved with the E-Verify system is

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom), the IT industry body for India, has begun to significantly increase its lobbying with lawmakers in the US, with a rise in spending of over a third in the wake of US visa curbs and large-scale layoffs in the US. As much as $150,000 was paid

Fresh allegations have come to light regarding the US immigration officials accused of refusing entry to foreign nationals who arrive on the US-Mexico border claiming they are being persecuted in their home nations. A new report released by Human Rights First claims that extra information has been gathered by its researchers that demonstrates how immigration

Immigrants form a growing share of the workforce in the US, though the trend could be interrupted by attempts to overhaul the nation’s immigration policy. The number of foreign-born workers in the US hit a peak of almost 27 million last year, which is a rise of 700,000 from 2015. They now represent 16.9 percent

Pre-clearance facilities for US immigration at airports in Shannon and Dublin will be accessible by passengers making use of the new Norwegian-operated, transatlantic budget flights. Shannon and Dublin are two of a handful of airports in the world to be offering pre-clearance to the US, with Dublin the only one to offer the facility in

The temporary immigrant status granted to hundreds of Africans currently living in the US state of Minnesota is set to be revoked. Up to 5000 people were given special protected status in 2014 when three countries in West Africa were hit by the Ebola virus. It enabled residents from affected nations to remain in the

Immigration agents, emboldened by President Donald Trump’s tough stance on immigration, have increased the rate of arrests by almost 40 percent this year. Over 40,000 suspected undocumented immigrants are held in detention and there is a renewed focus on the targeting of immigrants who have no criminal records. Thomas Honan, the acting director of Immigration

Two important lawmakers in the Republican Party are drafting a bill to establish mandatory five-year prison sentences for undocumented immigrants who re-enter the US after deportation, to force the parents of undocumented immigrant teenagers to have electronic ankle monitors fitted ensuring their offspring attend deportation hearings, and to punish so-called ‘sanctuary cities’. This is according