Based on reports that US tech majors, including Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, added 32,000 employees in India, social media influencers concluded that the H-1B crackdown has actually backfired and instead of creating more jobs for Americans, these jobs actually exited America as big companies offshored these jobs to India. The figure has been […]
Google and Apple advised US-based employees on work visas not to travel internationally after their outside counsel warned of delays of up to 12 months at US embassies and consulates worldwide amid the immigration crackdown, documents reviewed by Business Insider show. On Thursday, BAL Immigration Law, which represents Google, sent a memo stating, “Please be […]
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump has suspended the diversity green card lottery programme, saying it allowed the suspect in the deadly Brown University and MIT shootings to enter the United States, as his administration moved to tighten legal immigration channels following the attacks.Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem […]
Republican senator Eric Schmitt took to social media to slam the Democratic states that are trying to block the Trump administration’s H1-B crackdown.In a lengthy post on X, Schmitt described how each Blue state is using the visa programme for certain reasons and hence trying to block the GOP crackdown.The MAGA senator said: “20 Democrat […]
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal emerged as a loud voice against Donald Trump’s crackdown on Somali migrants in Minnesota, as she said ‘being undocumented is not a crime’. While her statement invited intense criticism, Jayapal explained that overstaying a visa or being undocumented in the US is not a criminal offence, but a civil offence and hence […]
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 […]
A sweeping US led crackdown on an international drug trafficking network has resulted in the arrests of 10 people, including two Indian-origin Canadians, after investigators linked the group to a brutal witness killing in Colombia earlier this year. According to a press release by the Justice Department, The case centres on Ryan James Wedding, a […]
Thousands of truck drivers across the United States have been barred from operating after failing newly enforced English proficiency tests, with Indian-origin and Latino drivers among those most affected. The rule, reinstated under Donald Trump’s administration, has raised alarm among trucking companies and worker groups, who say it unfairly targets immigrant drivers. It could worsen […]
US President Trump defended his administration’s ICE raids and argued “they haven’t gone far enough” in a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday night, his first sit-down with CBS News since suing the network. The interview was filmed Friday at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. He dismissed criticism of his immigration crackdown and blamed “the […]
Udaipur, November 1 (Udaipur Kiran) — In a major action under the E-Cigarettes (Prohibition) Act, 2019, police teams seized 130 e-cigarettes from different areas of Udaipur city during coordinated operations. The crackdown was carried out as part of a state-wide campaign launched by the Director General of Police, Rajasthan, Jaipur, to curb the online sale, […]
