A federal appeals court has dealt a crippling blow to the immigration plan unveiled by President Obama, leaving over four million undocumented immigrants with an uncertain future and potentially forcing the president into a battle in the Supreme Court even as his administration comes to a close. Texas and 25 other Republican states had challenged […]
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With reports indicating that China and India are responsible for sending more legal immigrants to the United States than Mexico, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released new data revealing that the largest bloc of naturalized Americans across nine states ‒ primarily in the eastern US ‒ comprises Asian Indians. The western and central
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Democratic presidential candidate nominee Bernie Sanders says that relief for undocumented immigrants in the US would be massively extended if he were to be elected to the White House next year, even more so than with the executive actions taken by President Barack Obama. On Monday, Sanders declared that he would ensure that the parents
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The people of California have a more positive view of the impact of immigrants on the United States than Americans as a whole; however, most still believe that their presence makes their own financial lives harder, according to the results of a new poll conducted by Survey Monkey for USC Dornsife and the Los Angeles
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A new report from the Pew Research Center indicates that religious affiliation has a big effect on how people view immigration, with Hindus and Muslims most likely to see increased immigration to the United States as an overall improvement to the country. The majority of Hindus and Muslims – 61% of Hindus and 51% of
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Senator Marco Rubio, a presidential candidate nominee for the Republican Party, said on Wednesday that he would like to put an end to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that offers protection to young undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children. The Florida senator ‒ who was one of the Gang
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Women from Mexico and Central America are continuing to try to flee their home nations in ever-increasing numbers, a new United Nations report has revealed. The report warns the United States that it needs to act with urgency as the refugees head for its southern borders to escape gang violence. “The dramatic refugee crises we
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While the immigration issue looms large, little has been commonly understood about the details of the deportation system used by the United States; however, this could be about to change due to a new report revealing the effects of the Criminal Alien Program and the deportation of undocumented immigrants. The American Immigration Council (AIC) says
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The amount of immigrants coming to the United States from Africa has been increasingly steadily since the 1970s, according to Pew Research Center’s new analysis of census information. In the 1970s African immigrants made up just 0.8% of the population; however, by 2013 this figure had risen as high as 4.4%. There were 80,000 immigrants
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Almost a year after a mammoth public relations campaign was launched by the Obama administration with the intention of dispelling rumors that immigrant families illegally crossing the US border receive a free pass, the effort appears to be failing. This is according to internal intelligence files from the Department of Homeland Security. Hundreds of immigrant
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Paul Ryan, the new speaker of the House Representatives, has ruled out collaborating with President Obama with regard to creating a new system for immigration in the United States. Ryan says the president cannot be trusted and that it would be “a ridiculous notion” to try to work together to develop legislation. Republicans have been
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