According to the Department of Justice on Thursday, an Indianapolis immigration attorney pleaded guilty to fraudulently filing over 250 fake US visa applications on behalf of his clients. Joe Paul, a 45-year-old immigration attorney from Fishers in Indiana, pled guilty to the Southern District of Indiana’s US District Judge, Jane E. Magnus-Stinson to charges of […]

Congressional Democrat leaders elected not to attend a budget-focused meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday. This increases chances of a government shutdown in December, with little hope of the two sides reaching agreement. Republican Congressional leaders and the President went ahead with the meeting after being informed that the House of Representative’s top Democrat,

Leaders in the state of California are calling for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release around 200 Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrants, who, advocates claim, were recent victims of unprecedented roundups in the Bay Area and other places. California has the biggest populations of Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans in the country, including the largest Vietnamese

On Monday, a federal judge ordered a delay to any efforts being made by US immigration officials to try to deport 51 undocumented Indonesian immigrants, currently living in New Hampshire, to allow the group time to make an argument that it would be too dangerous for them to return to that country due to changing

A federal appeals court has said that judges cannot prevent the granting of bail to immigrants involved in legal proceedings because they are undocumented and face deportation before the start of trials. The three-judge appellate panel made the ruling last week, in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. It sets a legal standard, which now

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) say that applications for citizenship usually take an average of around eight months to process, but many New York attorneys say the waiting period is now between two to four times longer than was the case last year. This is causing immigrants to wait longer before they can sponsor

A bakery in Chicago, Illinois, which makes hamburger buns for McDonald’s, has lost a third of its workforce in a raid by immigration enforcement officers. The company, struggling in the wake of the loss of so many staff members, is being pressured to increase wages to attract replacements who have legal status. 35 percent of

Voters in Wisconsin are overwhelmingly in favor of a reduction in immigration, according to the results of a new poll, conducted by Numbers USA. Almost two-thirds of Wisconsin residents want to see immigration numbers slashed by at least half, and Congress seems to be responding to such concerns from voters. The recently introduced Reforming American

With Hurricane Harvey having destroyed many homes and businesses in Houston, many immigrant day laborers are working in dangerous conditions while they still face the fear of being detained by immigration authorities. The destruction or damage of almost 200,000 homes by high winds and flooding created a massive demand for such laborers. But, advocates with

Farmers in South Carolina have told US Representative, Ralph Norman, that they need his help with the creation of a farm bill, making it simpler for them to hire legal immigrants for temporary agricultural work. On Tuesday, around 15 former or current farmers from the 5th District of South Carolina went to the Representative’s office

Big dairy owners in the US used to be a tough sell when it came to paying to have their cows milked by robots rather than human farmhands, but President Donald Trump has changed that, according to Lely North America sales manager, Steve Fried. The crackdown on illegal immigration in the US, which has been