Despite more arrests, deportations down under Trump

President Donald Trump is on track to deport fewer illegal immigrants this year than were expelled from the country at the same point last year under the Obama administration, government documents show. The latest statistics show that as of September 9, three weeks before the end of fiscal year 2017, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) […]

US limits visas for African, Asian nations over deportations

The US State Department said it will stop issuing certain kinds of visas to citizens of Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone, because of their refusal to take back deported citizens. The new policy was laid out in State Department cables by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert confirmed […]

Germany to restart deportations to Afghanistan next week – reports

Failed Afghan asylum seekers in Germany could be ferried back to Afghanistan beginning next week, according to reports in the German media. Deportations to the country were paused following a deadly suicide bombing in Kabul last month. After the blast on May 31, which killed over 150 people and severely damaged the German embassy, Chancellor […]

Homeland Security secretary: Deportations will happen ‘more quickly,’ but not en masse

Thomson Reuters GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said on Wednesday that the United States government was not deporting undocumented migrants en masse, but said that deportations would happen more quickly than over the last decade. Speaking at an event in Guatemala City, Kelly said U.S. authorities would follow the law […]

Federal judges block deportations in emergency rulings on Trump’s immigration order

Reuters/Carlos Barria A federal judge in Brooklyn, New York issued an emergency ruling Saturday evening to prevent the deportation of travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries who have already entered the country, following President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration. The ruling will affect all those who landed at US airports Friday evening and Saturday, after […]