On Wednesday, the Trump administration announced its intention to issue a new kind of green card for legal immigrants. It will be extra resistance to fraud and offer a new level of security. The new cards will start to be issued on 1 May, according to US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and will have […]

Tuesday saw the release of an annual poll, which revealed the feelings of Texas people about immigration. The non-partisan, non-profit group, the Texas Lyceum, conducts the poll and releases its results every year. This is the first time it has covered the issue of immigration. According to the poll results, Texans think that immigration is

President Donald Trump has ordered US federal agencies to tighten up a US visa program, which brings high-skilled immigrants to the country as he attempts to fulfill his election campaign vows to put ‘America first’. The President signed an executive order on Tuesday, to enforce and review the H-1B US visa, which is particularly popular

The US Supreme Court sidestepped a heated debate on the issue of illegal immigration on Monday. It declined an appeal by Central American women and children seeking asylum in the US and wanted clarification of the constitutional rights of immigrants prioritized for deportation by the US government. The families, including 28 women and their 33

Travelers who overstay their trips to the U.S. have become the nation’s main source of illegal immigration, according to the Associated Press. Statistics from the Department of Homeland Security show that as many as 527,127 people, who arrived in the country by ship or plane rather than land, and were scheduled to leave the US

The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has defended the plan to hire thousands of extra border control and immigration agents. He claims that greater numbers are needed because of the low bar on criminal behavior committed by undocumented immigrants, implemented by the Trump administration. But John Kelly rejects the idea that the

On Tuesday a House panel in Tennessee narrowly rejected a proposal to offer in-state tuition to undocumented public school students who came to the United States as children. The defeat of the proposal left a number of students that were present visibly upset; some were weeping. The bill was defeated 7-6 by the House Education

Protesters outside the headquarters of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raised their voices and wielded signs to signal their displeasure at the announcement of DC-centric immigration stings, on Tuesday. Isaias Guerrero from the immigrant activist group, Sanctuary DMV, described ICE as ‘an insatiable monster’ allowed to raid immigrant communities, behaving in an intimidating manner

A new survey suggests that the majority of Americans are in favor of the immigration system touted by President Donald Trump. This would be one based on merit and skills, rather than the current system, based largely on family ties. According to a new poll from Rasmussen Reports, 44 percent of Americans likely to vote,