More than 20 members of Congress are demanding answers from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and homeland security officials after the Guardian revealed the VA is compiling a report on all non-US citizens “employed by or affiliated with” the government agency that will then be shared with other federal agencies, including immigration authorities. The […]
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Arizona congresswoman says she was ‘pepper sprayed’ at protest against ICE | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)
Adelita Grijalva, an Arizona congressperson, said she was “sprayed in the face” during a protest against a federal immigration raid at a Mexican restaurant in Tucson on Friday. In a video filmed after the incident, Grijalva said she joined a group of protesters assembled outside of Taco Giro, a “small mom-and-pop” restaurant in Tucson Grijalva […]
Lawmakers decry Trump’s immigration halt for 19 countries: ‘scapegoating entire nationalities’ | US immigration
Immigration groups and lawmakers are sharply criticizing Donald Trump’s latest move to halt immigration applications from 19 countries already under US travel restrictions, a decision that comes amid reports that naturalization ceremonies for people on the travel ban list are also being canceled. On Tuesday the US Citizenship and Immigration Services posted a policy memo […]
UK asylum seekers to be banned from taking taxis to medical appointments | Immigration and asylum
Asylum seekers will be banned from taking taxis to medical appointments after it was revealed the Home Office spends about £15.8m a year on the service. From February they will have to use alternative transport such as buses, no matter how urgent their medical needs. The government, however, has so far rejected pleas to give […]
The Danish Model for Immigration Crackdown
new video loaded: The Danish Model for Immigration Crackdown For European governments, Denmark’s hard-line immigration policy is a model for how to get a grip on contentious issue and stay in power. Our reporter Jeanna Smialek reports from Copenhagen on the the effects of the policy. By Jeanna Smialek, Katrin Bennhold, Nikolay Nikolov, Leila Medina […]
Wes Streeting defends asylum system shake-up despite his unease | Immigration and asylum
Wes Streeting has admitted he is not comfortable with forcibly deporting families under the home secretary’s migration plans, while maintaining it is still the right thing to do. The health secretary said he thought the number of forced removals would be low under the proposed model, which is similar to Denmark’s, because there would be […]
In Chicago, a Halloween weekend of immigration arrests and violence : NPR
A young man confronts federal agents after they arrested a worker at a home in his Edison Park neighborhood on Friday in Chicago. Jamie Kelter Davis/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jamie Kelter Davis/Getty Images Over the weekend, heightened immigration enforcement actions in and around Chicago led to muted Halloween and Day of the Dead […]
Daca recipients in Texas await judge’s ruling that could upend their lives | US immigration
A federal judge could soon decide whether tens of thousands of so-called “Dreamers” in Texas could lose their ability to work in the US legally under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) immigration program – prompting fears of upheaval and heartbreak. As part of the years-long legal battle over Daca, US district court judge […]
Trump’s 7,500 refugee cap; echoing restrictive US immigration history | Donald Trump News
US President Donald Trump has announced that he will limit the number of refugees entering the US to 7,500 for the fiscal year 2026. This is a record low since the 1980 Refugee Act when a cap on refugees entering the country was set at 50,000 per year, but could be changed. That was the […]
America’s immigration crackdown is disrupting the global remittance market : Planet Money : NPR
Earlier this year, the Trump administration shut down USAID and slashed spending on international aid and development. Development advocates worried — and continue to worry — that this will hurt the economies of developing nations and have deadly consequences for some of the poorest people on Earth. That story generated tons of headlines earlier this […]