Around 40 Senators and Congressmen have written a letter to the Biden administration to protect more than two lakh children who are facing deportation. The White House has blamed the Republicans for voting down a bipartisan agreement for 'documented dreamers'.
Thousands of Haitian migrants have been arriving to Del Rio, Texas, as authorities attempt to close the border to stop the flow of migrants.
For years, the U.S. government has intermittently flown deported Mexican migrants back home to make it more difficult to try to cross the border again.
White House Press Secy Jen Psaki told this to reporters at her daily news conference while responding to questions on the fear among a section of children, most from India, because of decades-long wait for their green card.
The passage of the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act by the Senate on Wednesday comes as a big relief to Indian IT professionals who come to the US on H-1B work visas and their current waiting period for Green Card or permanent residency is running into decades.
The Trump administration awarded billions of dollars in contracts for private companies to operate immigration detention centers in California —- less than two weeks before a new state law takes effect to prohibit them. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill in October to ban contracts for for-profit prisons starting Jan. 1. Supporters hoped the law would force U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to look elsewhere after current contracts expire.
If children are younger than 5, they must be reunified within 14 days of the order issued on Tuesday by US District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego.
The release on Sunday is believed to be the first, large one of its kind since President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that preserved a “zero-tolerance” policy for entering the country illegally but ended the practice of separating immigrant parents and children.
Trump likely put the nail in the coffin, telling Republicans on Friday they should "stop wasting their time" on the divisive issue.
Opposing President Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" policy Melania Trump has called for an end of separating parents and children illegally entering the country from Mexico
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Washington: President Barack Obama is poised to unveil executive action that will shield possibly around 5 million immigrants living in the US illegally from deportation, according to advocates in touch with the White House, an
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