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President Donald Trump hosted families who lost loved ones to crimes committed by illegal immigrants. CNN and MSNBC cut their coverage of the White House event shortly after Trump accused the media of ‘overlooking’ the families. Trump hosted 14 members of “Angel Families” at the White House on Friday. Some of them held up photos […]
Editor’s Note: This article is the third in a series about how the gig economy is shaping the future of labor and what that means for workers. Sakhr Sharafadin was making $ 8 an hour in the kitchen at a Little Caesars, during his senior year of high school, when friends started telling him about […]
Last week, we asked: Should immigrants be forced to forsake their homelands? You answered, and here are your thoughts, edited for clarity. Larry McIntyre, Apopka, Florida Is it really too much to ask that a legal immigrant swear an allegiance to America and denounce their allegiance to the country that they have chosen to leave? […]
The Liberal government is loosening the medical inadmissibility rules for immigrants, but is not yet eliminating the policy that many have called discriminatory. Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said the current policy, in place for more than 40 years, is “way out of date,” and not in line with Canadian values or government policies of inclusion.
Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says he will present a plan in April to kill an outdated policy that excludes immigrants based on medical condition, but the NDP wants the government to act with greater urgency to end the discriminatory clause.
Reuters/Lisa Hornak The Trump administration is considering making it harder for foreigners to get permanent residency if they or their US-born children use public benefits such as food assistance. The Department of Homeland Security has drafted rules that would allow immigration officers to scrutinize a potential immigrant’s use of certain taxpayer-funded public benefits. In 2016, nearly […]
– U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators have recently expanded their use of controversial databases containing billions of license-plate records, and privacy advocates fear the widespread use of these records will embolden the administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants. – While the federal agency previously has used the information in a more limited scope, an agreement […]
Immigrants who were forced to defecate in front of cellmates at one of Britain’s most infamous detention centers are taking on the UK government. They say the “disgusting” conditions violated their human rights. Immigrants detained at the Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, which is managed by private security firm G4S, claim they were held in […]
Reuters/Mike Blake The Trump campaign released an ad Saturday announcing its intention to blame Democrats for murders committed by unauthorized immigrants. The ad came on the first day of a government shutdown, caused in part by deadlocked negotiations on immigration policies. But Democrats said Saturday they offered Trump funding for the border wall, only to […]
Three out of four people convicted of international terrorism or terrorism-related offenses were “immigrants,” a new report by the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security has claimed. The DOJ broadly defines “immigrants” as both the people extradited to the US for trial and immigrants arrested in US. The report, issued Tuesday, is in […]
