President Donald Trump will address ranch and farm families from across the US, at the 99th Convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation, which is being held in Nashville this week. Although the Bureau says it is honored to be hosting the US President, Trump’s policy to crack down on immigration threatens to adversely affect […]

Kirstjen Nielsen, the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, faces her first big test on immigration policy this week, with a decision that could result in as many as 250,000 Central American immigrants being forced to exit the US. The deadline for a decision on the future of the Temporary Protected Status for

President Donald Trump continues to harden his demands on a deal protecting young undocumented immigrants from deportation from the US, as talks with congressional Democrats try to avert a possible government shutdown over the issue. On Tuesday, a spokesman for the White House said that any deal to protect ‘Dreamers’ whose future has been threatened

On Tuesday, a federal judge ordered the US government to either release or give bond hearings to the Iraqi immigrants arrested in 2017. Hundreds of immigrants from Iraq, whose prior criminal convictions made them eligible for deportation for years, were detained by the federal government last year. Until recently, Iraq had refused to repatriate the

The immigration court in Chicago is now the second average slowest at disposing of cases in the US, because of an increase in the number of pending cases, as well as the complex nature of many of them, according to statistics. Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse has collected national data, showing that the average

On Monday evening, a fault with computers at the immigration desks of many major airports in the US resulted in hundreds of travelers having to queue for almost two hours to get into the country. Atlanta International Airport and John F Kennedy International Airport in New York were among those affected, according to Reuters. It

The proposed new Protect and Grow New American Jobs US bill is filled with onerous conditions, placing unprecedented obligations on both clients who use H-1B US visas, and Indian IT firms, according to software body, Nasscom. Nasscom says their concerns about the US visa issues have been raised with Congressmen, Senators, and the Trump administration

President Donald Trump has kept his promise to find undocumented immigrants via Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with the impact of the directive on the Irish community of Boston increasing dramatically over the last 12 months. Irish immigrants who have become undocumented by overstaying their US visas or for other reasons are now faced with

When Congress returns this week, it faces a range of difficult issues, needing to be dealt with sooner rather than later. The issues include looming deadlines on government funding, trying to avoid a shutdown, as well as whether young undocumented immigrants (DREAMers) who were part of the deferred action program, should continue to receive protection

The number of people deported from the US after illegally residing in Wyoming and Colorado increased by over 50 percent during President Donald Trump’s first year in office, according to figures released by the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday. Removals increased from 1033 to 2535 during the 2017 fiscal year in the two states,

The federal government intends to increase the number of immigration enforcement actions at job sites in Tennessee next year, according to high-ranking enforcement official, Robert Hammer. Immigration investigations in workplaces are likely to focus on critical infrastructures, such as food distribution, defense contractors, airports, and other companies that impact on the community’s general welfare and