A federal judge in California has issued a nationwide injunction against several policies of the Donald Trump administration. These include a policy that allowed people to be detained directly in immigration courts and the lifting of a maximum detention limit for those detained for alleged violations.
On May 19, the president signed an executive order, "Restoring the Integrity of the U.S. Financial System." It requires banks to consider a client's immigration status when assessing potential financial risks, Time reports. The document instructs the Secretary of the Treasury and federal regulators to develop guidelines for banks to identify clients...
The Trump administration has ordered "enhanced" security screenings. Special instructions have been issued to employees of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), part of the US Department of Homeland Security, Reuters reports. Internal USCIS guidelines instruct employees to refrain from…
The main driver of Trump's immigration enforcement campaign is the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS). To understand how this agency has changed, The New York Times interviewed more than 80 former and current DHS employees, as well as representatives of the US Department of Justice, which oversees…
The British are very concerned about changes in the English language, writes The Telegraph. Linguists believe that the [th] sound will completely disappear from the English language by 2066 due to the fact that so many immigrants cannot pronounce interdental consonants - the term for the sound that is created by the push of air...
The Donald Trump administration must restore the legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who legally entered the United States through the CBP One app, a mechanism created under the Biden administration. A federal judge ruled on March 31, ABC News reports. The district judge…
On December 5, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the creation of a specialized unit to identify terrorists and criminals among aliens and individuals posing a potential threat to public safety, according to the agency's website. The USCIS Screening Center, headquartered in Atlanta,…
The installation in front of St. Susanna Catholic Parish now features a plaque reading "ICE Was Here" next to figurines of Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus, WPRI reports. Meanwhile, the Southern New England Confernce has recognized Jesus as a refugee and immigrant.
Forbes' annual list of American billionaires among former immigrants has set a new record: 125 people. They come from 41 countries, but got rich in the United States. "When you live in a totalitarian country like I do, and you don't have…
The Trump administration is ending protections granted for more than 25 years to migrants from two countries, Nicaragua and Honduras, Newsweek reports. In notices published in the Federal Register on July 7, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that Temporary Protected Status,…