US’ immigration system on the brink of collapse According to a New York Times report, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is seeking financial help from Congress in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. This comes...
The unprecedented nature of the time we are living in cannot be understated. Right now, countries across the world are on lockdown. Measures have been taken to ensure citizens of these countries avoid as much contact with one another as is...
At the end of January, the Trump administration announced that it would be making an expansion to its current travel ban, to now include six more countries. According to the new ruling, nationals of Nigeria, Eritrea, Sudan, Tanzania, Kyrgyzstan, and...
Approximately 800,000 legal migrants living in the United States as skilled employees are living in limbo. This is the result of an unprecedented backlog on employment-based green cards; due to legislation that stipulates only a certain number of...
Iranian-Americans fear they will be profiled and targeted by US authorities amid the escalating tensions between Iran and America, after being targeted at the America-Canada border in Blaine, Washington. The start of the warring escalation between...
According to recent findings uncovered by a lawsuit earlier this month, only an estimated 10 percent of asylum applicants in the US passed their “credible fear” interview over the last six months. This is based on findings from a detention centre in...
Donald Trump has been obsessed with building a wall on the US-Mexico border since his presidential infancy. Having reportedly plugged $3.2bn into its planning and construction, it would seem that there is no length the President won’t go to...
Last Friday, a federal judge blocked a new rule by the Trump administration, due to be implemented this week, which would have refused permanent residence to low-income migrants living in the US. A prompt injunction by New York City’s District Judge...
Late last week, a new book was released by two New York Times journalists, which revealed a few of the extreme ideas floated by President Trump in discussions about the infamous wall he is building at the US-Mexico border. Trump reportedly suggested...
An investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services, released on Wednesday, uncovered the severe impact Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy – which separated children from their parents in detention centres – had on the thousands of children...
