US Immigration

On Monday, the office of Karl Racine, the DC Attorney General, filed a suit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), claiming that the agency has improperly responded to requests for information about raids carried out earlier in 2018 in District communities with a predominantly Latino population. Racine says his office wants to know more about […]

On Friday, 200,000 signed petitions from the local Greyhound bus driver’s union, the American Civil Liberties Union, and other group representatives were delivered to the headquarters of the Greyhound bus company, in downtown Dallas. They demanded that the company end the practice of allowing agents with Customs and Border Protection onto Greyhound buses to question

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has updated a key requirement for gaining a green card, which will come into effect on 1 November. The policy changes, announced last week, will affect the vaccination and medical exam for immigration purposes, ensuring there are no health issues that would make applicants inadmissible to gain permanent residency

The Trump administration intends to revise the definition of specialty occupations and employment under the H-1B US visa scheme by January 2019. The H-1B US visa is a non-immigrant visa enabling US businesses to hire overseas workers in specialty occupations needing technical or theoretical expertise. On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that

President Donald Trump has warned that he will use the US military to close the nation’s southern border with Mexico if nothing is done to prevent the attempt by a caravan of undocumented immigrants to enter the country. Trump issued the warning in several posts on social media site, Twitter, slamming Mexico and other countries’

A caravan of immigrants leaving Honduras has increased to as many as 4,000, and now the government of Mexico has sent a further 500 federal police officers to their nation’s border with Guatemala to prepare for their arrival. This is according to documents allegedly obtained by NBC News from the US government. The caravan has

The US government has reached a deal to ensure a 2,400-bed detention facility will remain open. The facility, used for the detention of immigrant mothers and their children, is in a small town in South Texas, and the deal is a lucrative one for the private prison company that operates it. Last month, US Immigration

On Monday, officials told the Free Press that a federal immigration detention, which would be privately operated and worth up to $35 million, has been proposed on the site of a former state prison in Ionia. Immigration Centers of America was the only bidder for the former Deerfield Correctional Facility, which closed in 2009. It

The organizer of an immigrant caravan heading from Honduras to the US was taken into detention in Guatemala on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump told the government of Honduras to stop the flow of undocumented immigrants or risk losing US aid and funding. Guatemalan police officers detained the Former Honduran member of Congress, Bartolo Fuentes,

Family physicians in the state of California have warned federal officials that proposed changes to immigration rules could endanger public health by weakening herd immunity, particularly in the state where one-in-two children have a parent who was born overseas. On Wednesday, the Trump administration proposed changing a federal rule that immigration experts claim would make

On Sunday, an increasing number of over 1,500 immigrants from Honduras moved toward the border with Guatemala, intending to head for the US, according to organizers and witnesses. The immigrant group, including women carrying babies, and whole families, began marching on Saturday from San Pedro Sula, days after US Vice President Mike Pence asked Central