On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed a new defense authorization bill, which included a measure to protect immigrant recruits from the threat of deportation due to enlistment contract cancellations while they await the completion of background checks. It is a major step forward for lawmakers and advocates wanting to ensure that non-citizens continue to be […]

Overseas workers living in the US on the H-1B work US visa can work for many different companies on the same visa, according to the nation’s immigration agency. The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant US visa, enabling US companies to hire overseas workers in specialty occupations needing technical or theoretical expertise. Tech firms in the

On Saturday, President Donald Trump put pressure on Democrats in Congress to stop demanding amnesty for young undocumented immigrants by the end of 2017, as part of a government spending deal. The President signed a temporary spending bill on Friday, which will keep the US government in operation until 22 December. But, the White House

The Southern Poverty Law Center is suing the federal government, claiming that raiding immigrant family homes is against the US Constitution. The civil rights group filed the lawsuit in the District Court for the Northern District of the Atlanta Division in Georgia. It alleged that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials entered immigrant family homes

Although illegal immigration to the US seems to be generally on the wane, for which the Trump administration is happy to claim credit, the number of families and unaccompanied immigrant minors crossing the US border since May has increased. Many experts believe that the increase may result from talk of an amnesty for Dreamers –

The chance of the federal government extending the CW program is unlikely, according to Micronesia attorney, Janet King, who says that the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) leaders should start looking for ways to work within the framework of existing US immigration. King, who is an American Immigration Lawyers Association member, says that

After 10 months of escalating immigration enforcement under President Donald Trump, the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement says that the agency will become even more aggressive in its pursuit of that agenda next year. Thomas Homan says that he wants to see a dramatic increase in the targeting of businesses hiring undocumented immigrants

The number of immigrants from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador in the US increased by as much as 25% between 2007 and 2015. This contrasts with the more modest rise in the foreign-born population of the nation, as well as a fall in those coming from Mexico. During the same period, the immigration population of

New statistics show that there are fewer people now being arrested for attempting to illegally cross the border into the US than at any time for almost half a century, as President Donald Trump continues his hard line on immigration. US Border Patrol arrested just over 300,000 undocumented immigrants in the year ending in September

Following a number of court losses, the Trump administration has scored a massive victory with a Supreme Court ruling that the Trump administration can legally enforce the controversial travel ban even as some lower courts were continuing to debate the legality of the measure. The policy was originally unveiled in September by the Trump administration

Early test surveys show that the accuracy of next year’s census in the US could be at risk because immigrants are afraid to provide correct data to US Census workers in case it is used to deport them, according to a government official. Mikelyn Meyers, a surveyor for the Center for Survey Measurement at the