IMMIGRATION NEWS

Immigrants who were brought into the United States as children and enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program signed into law an executive order in 2012 by former President Obama have until Thursday of next week (October 5th) to file renewal requests. This comes after…

Baltimore mayor Catherine Pugh has said her administration is committed to educating immigrant communities about their rights. This follows the arrest of 5 immigrants in the city this week and a total of 28 in the state of Maryland by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of a…

President Donald Trump’s administration this week carried out raids in so-called ‘sanctuary cities’ across the United States this week, arresting 498 immigrants from 42 different countries. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in an operation dubbed ‘Safe City’, targeted immigrants who have…

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to start collecting social media information on all immigrants in the US, including permanent residents and naturalized citizens starting October 18th. In a document published on the Federal Register last week, DHS plans to collect “social media…

US President Donald Trump has slapped a new travel ban on eight countries, citing poor security and failure to cooperate with US authorities. North Korea, Venezuela and Chad are among a list of eight countries whose citizens will not be allowed to travel to the US after the new restriction. Trump…

(AP) President Donald Trump is considering a new order to replace his soon-to-expire travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries that would be tailored on a country-by-country basis to protect the United States from attacks, U.S. officials said on Friday. With the current ban on people…

The US Department of State has announced that the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program for the fiscal year 2019 (DV-2019), popularly known Green Card Lottery, will run from Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017 to Tuesday, November 7th, 2017. The Green Card Lottery program makes 55,000 permanent resident visas…

The California state legislature on Saturday passed a comprehensive “sanctuary state” immigration bill that protects immigrants in the state without legal US residency and limits state and local law enforcement agencies from communicating with federal immigration authorities. SB 54 prevents police…

When they fled misery at home for safety in Israel, tens of thousands of Africans thought their agony had come to an end, or had at least reduced. However, decades later, its now appearing that home was better, after all. Their stay in the gulf nation remains in a limbo, living with fears of…

(AP) The top House and Senate Democrats have announced agreement with President Donald Trump to protect certain immigrants brought illegally to this country as children – along with some border security enhancements. The agreement would specifically not include Trump’s long-sought border wall. It…