The number of immigrants attempting to flee persecution in their own countries and asking for help on the San Diego border increased to such a degree in the last few weeks that processing them has proved impossible for federal officials. The result is that many are stranded in Tijuana, running out of money, as they […]

Mexico strengthened ties with the US this year, despite public differences on immigration and trade. This is according to a statement from the Mexican Foreign Affairs Ministry, released on Monday. Five principles and ten goals were formulated by President, Enrique Pena Nieto at the start of 2017, serving as guidelines for his nation’s relationship with

The most recent barrier to immigrants being able to join the US military is a change of the rules that took place in October, which temporarily halted the recruitment of non-citizens to the National Guard and Reserve. Critics say the move to ban holders of green cards from joining the US military is unprecedented in

The Department of Homeland Security is preparing a proposal to make it even more difficult to acquire an H-1B US visa. Stringent regulations on the selection process for H-1B US visa petitioners are on the cards, according to the international immigration firm, Fragomen. The most recent update on the Fragomen website says that the Department

Governor Jerry Brown, has pardoned two Cambodian immigrant refugees living in Northern Carolina. They had been on a pathway towards deportation from the US, as a result of criminal convictions many years ago, placing them in the crosshairs of the Trump administration’s more aggressive immigration enforcement policy. Brown’s announcement that he was pardoning Rottanak Kong,

A janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was arrested by federal immigration officials with the intention of deporting him from the US, is to be released from custody a few hours before Christmas, following his lawyer’s success in a motion within the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. The ruling essentially means that Francisco

Refugee agencies in the US have been told by the State Department that the number of their offices across the nation authorized to resettle immigrants will be reduced in 2018, as the number of immigrant refugees allowed to enter the country is cut by President Donald Trump. The announcement came at a Washington meeting with

Over 100 Iraqi detainees in metro Detroit remain in detention following their arrest in a sweep, which took place during the summer. But, on 20 December, attorneys went to federal court, attempting to secure their release. Margo Schlanger, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), told US District Court Judge, Mark A Goldsmith,

Although the immigration agenda pursued by the Trump administration has made headlines with its call for a wall on the border between the US and Mexico, the increasing number of undocumented immigrants being arrested and barring travel from many overseas countries, some of its agenda has been implemented with considerably less attention. Much less attention

The federal government is escalating the pressure on 20 workers, arrested at a logistics company in Memphis in November. It claims that the workers gained access to a secure airport area and is filing criminal charges, which could result in five years in prison. More investigations are expected next year in Tennessee, according to a

A proposal announced by Democrat lawmakers would see California spending as much as $1 billion per annum on healthcare for undocumented immigrants. The proposal would remove the requirements for legal residency in the California version of the Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, already given to youngsters’ aged 19 and under. The proposal is part of a new