Thousands of immigrants from Venezuela who fled to South Florida and elsewhere in the United States prior to 2013 could gain permanent legal residency under new legislation being proposed by a number of members of Congress from Florida. Numerous Venezuelans are unable to go back to their home country due to their fear of being […]
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While Donald Trump has used the issue of illegal immigration to get to the top of the presidential nomination polls for the Republican Party, a program to give municipal identity cards to undocumented immigrants in New Jersey and beyond is gaining more widespread acceptance. The latest community set to adopt the ID cards is Roselle,
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The first wave of refugees from the Syrian war has already arrived to be resettled in California and this number is likely to rapidly increase, given that the United States has already expanded its asylum commitment to Syrians and has pledged to take in a minimum of another 10,000 immigrants over the course of the
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Indian-American groups are calling for an immigration campaign with regard to issues that affect the Indian diaspora, including the usage of H-IB US visas by Indian technology firms and the increasing backlog of visas for families. The call came at a recent immigration seminar in New York organized by the South Asian Council for Social
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The mayor of Chapel Hill in North Carolina, Mark Kleinschmidt, has joined 17 mayors from across the United States in a movement to provide aid to Syrian refugees. Almost nine million refugees from Syria have been forced to flee their homes in the last four years since the civil war broke out in 2011 and,
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Fewer immigrants have been deported in the last 12 months by the Obama administration than in any year since 2006, internal figures discovered by the Associated Press reveal, despite the deportation policies of the current administration being called too harsh by Democratic presidential nomination candidate Hillary Clinton. Even the deportation of criminal immigrants has dropped
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Immigration will add seven people to the United States for every new American born in the country over the course of the next half a century. This is according to information recently released by the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Immigration and the National Interest, of which Senator Jeff Sessions is the chairman. The Pew
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Interpreters all over the United States are refusing to sign up to a new contract with immigration courts, which they say offers poor working conditions and an unacceptably low rate of pay. This is despite such interpreters being critical to the basic functionality of the nation’s immigration courts. “They’re keeping me from making a decent
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Bernie Sanders announced on Thursday that he supports the idea of expanding Obamacare, otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act, to undocumented immigrants. The Vermont senator, who is Hillary Clinton’s top rival for the Democratic Party presidential candidacy nomination, told Congressional Hispanic Caucus members in Washington DC last week that he wants to see undocumented
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With the 2016 presidential primaries taking place in February next year, immigration is the issue weighing heavily on the minds of South Carolinians. Republican polls in South Carolina are being dominated by controversial real estate magnate Donald Trump, who has taken a very hard line when it comes to dealing with the country’s undocumented immigrants.
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The majority of people in California believe that immigrants are a benefit to their state and that undocumented immigrants should be allowed to live and work in the United States, according to a new poll published on Wednesday. The poll, which was conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, found that three-quarters of the
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