Around 13,500, mainly Chinese, immigrants, given asylum in the US before December 2012 could be deported because of possible lies on their applications. A National Republic Radio (NPR) report has revealed that US officials are reviewing 3,500 asylum cases and as many as 10,000 derivative cases involving family members. Anyone granted asylum in the US […]

Earlier this year, immigration hardliners in the White House tried to persuade President Donald Trump to stop giving student U.S. visas to Chinese nationals. But it has been revealed that concerns over the diplomatic and economic impact of such a move caused the proposal to be scrapped. According to insiders, White House aide, Stephen Miller,

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has moved to try and stop the Trump administration from detaining undocumented immigrants who offer to care for unaccompanied undocumented immigrant minors following a CNN report on such arrests. The bill, which was set to be introduced on Tuesday (October 2nd, 2018), comes as the number of immigrant kids held

Officials claim that tougher immigration policies under the Trump administration have created problems for plans by the Pentagon to reboot a program enabling thousands of immigrants with critical African or Asian language or medical skills to join the US military and gain citizenship. The ten-year-old program has been suspended since 2016 because of concerns that

A new coalition of business leaders in Massachusetts is calling for foreign-born workers and entrepreneurs, including those who help power the booming technology and science sectors in the state to have better legal protections, with the formation of the Massachusetts Business Coalition on Immigration, announced on Monday. Among the local business organizations and companies joining

There will be some relief for the backlogged immigration courts of Houston in October when a new supervisor arrives in the form of Atlanta’s John R Doolittle II. He will take the post of Houston Immigration Court’s new assistant chief immigration judge. Last week, Doolittle was sworn in with 45 other new immigration judges in

One of the centerpiece laws for the state of California’s attempts to protect undocumented immigrants received a setback last week, which could boost the strict immigration enforcement efforts. On Thursday (27 September, 2018), a Superior Court judge in Orange County ruled in favor of the city, one of 121 charter cities in the state, which has

On Monday (1 October, 2018), the U.S. will begin implementing a new rule to allow the commencement of deportation proceedings for legal immigrants whose right to remain in the country has expired for various reasons, including a change in status, or their US visas being denied, according to officials. But, holders of H-1B US visas

Next week, Missoula’s University of Montana will receive a guest speaker in the form of the US Commission on Immigration Reform’s former executive director. She will talk about the policies related to refugees and immigration reform under the Trump administration. Georgetown University’s Susan Martin, from Washington DC, is set to appear on Tuesday 2 October,

On Wednesday (26 September, 2018), the former owner of the Centerport Thatched Cottage catering hall pled guilty to a federal charge of forced labor. Federal prosecutors claimed that he physically threatened immigrant workers, while also paying them substandard wages. 64-year-old Ralph Colamussi from Huntington appeared in a Central Islip court in front of US District

A small city in the Arizona region has decided to end its part in an unconventional contract that gave US Immigration and Customs Enforcement the legal right to operate a family detention center in the state of Texas. The city of Eloy was already contracted with the agency, as well as CoreCivic, a private detention