Tag: Immigration
US airport immigration computers go down temporarily
WASHINGTON: Immigration desk computers at various airports went down for about two hours on Monday, causing long lines for travellers entering the United States...
US pulls out of UN’s Global Compact on Migration
WASHINGTON: The administration of President Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from a United Nations pact to improve the handling of migrant and...
New Trump immigration initiative aims to curb child migration
NEW YORK: Many of the immigration initiatives launched by the Trump administration in recent weeks target one kind of migrant: children.
The measures are aimed...
Tech companies join against Trump’s decision to end protection for immigrants
SAN FRANCISCO: Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc on Wednesday joined a legal challenge by more than 100 tech companies against a decision to...
Australian senate rejects proposed visa, citizenship curbs
SYDNEY: Australia’s lawmakers have rejected legislation that would tighten citizenship and foreign worker visa rules, a blow to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull who had sought...
US judge blocks latest version of Trump travel ban
WASHINGTON: A US federal judge on Tuesday barred the White House from implementing yet another version of President Donald Trump's controversial executive order on...
Trump sends ‘hard-line immigration’ policy to Congress
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump sent Congress his immigration legislation priorities Sunday, including building a controversial border wall, speeding up deportations and dramatically increasing...
Trump discusses immigration ideas in dinner with Republican lawmakers
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump is discussing border security and other measures that the White House wants to see included in an immigration bill during...
Trump’s contentious travel ban to expire on Sunday
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump´s contentious travel ban expires Sunday with little clarity over whether America´s door will reopen for travellers from six majority-Muslim countries.
Based...
Republicans could lose US House in 2018 over immigration fight, says...
Bannon, whose far-right views on immigration, climate and trade helped shape Trump’s presidential campaign and his first months in office, was fired by the Republican president last month in a push to end factional fights within the White House.
New York vows to sue Trump over immigrant children protections
New York and Washington state on Monday vowed to sue President Donald Trump if he scraps a program shielding from deportation immigrants who came...
Trump to end programme that shields undocumented immigrants
US President Donald Trump has decided to end a popular programme that shields hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation, while deferring...
Trump trashes Sweden, Germany, Paris
Oxon Hill: US President Donald Trump intensified his verbal attacks on Sweden, France and Germany on Friday, painting swaths of Europe as a jihadist-infested...
Britain’s top court backs government on immigration income test
LONDON: Britain's top court backed a government attempt to limit immigration by ruling on Wednesday that an income test for those who want to...
Dr Vankwani admires Canadian PM’s immigrant policy
Member of National Assembly Dr Ramesh Kumar Vankwani – during his meeting with Canadian High Commissioner Perry John Calderwood – said that the steps...
Live stream of alleged gang-rape shocks Sweden
The mood in Sweden was one of outrage and shock as three men of foreign origins have been arrested on suspicion of gang-raping a...