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

A trade association in the US has filed a lawsuit in district court following changes to policy by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that have resulted in H-1B US visas being granted for months or even days as opposed to three years, which had been the standard requested period. In some instances, notices

The federal government has given the City and County of Denver almost three-quarters of $1 million after a successful rebuking of the attempt by the Department of Justice to penalize some cities in the US for failing to cooperate with immigration enforcement. The office of Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General of the US, approved the

On Wednesday, a bill targeting Philadelphia and other municipalities in Pennsylvania, which refuse to hold undocumented immigrants in detention without criminal warrants, moved on from a state House committee. The bill, intended to punish so-called ‘sanctuary cities,’ was passed in 2017 by the PA Senate. The new approval now sees it heading for a vote

The Vice President of the US, Mike Pence, has told the leaders of three countries in Central America that the US will give greater aid to boost their nations’ economies if they make more effort to combat illegal immigration. A large number of the illegal border crossings in recent times have come from the trio