A coalition of 20 US states, led by California, has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over a new $100,000 fee imposed on H-1B visas, arguing that the move is unlawful and threatens access to essential public services such as healthcare and education.The legal challenge, announced by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, targets a […]
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced a heated session on Capitol Hill as Democratic lawmakers pressed her on deportations, immigration enforcement and the treatment of US military veterans. Among the most memorable exchanges came from Indian-origin Congressman Shri Thanedar, who, without hesitation, asked Noem whether she would resign. Thanedar even brought a board with “Kristi […]
Kilmar Abrego Garcia , second right, leaves the Putnam County Jail. (AP Photo) Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland construction worker at the center of President Donald Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown, surrendered to US authorities in Baltimore on Monday. His case, already marked by a wrongful deportation to El Salvador earlier this year, has taken a […]
Kilmar Abrego Garcia (center) leaves the Putnam County Jail in Cookeville, Tennessee. (Picture credit: AP) Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national whose wrongful deportation earlier this year became a flashpoint in US President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, was released Friday from a Tennessee jail to rejoin his family in Maryland while awaiting trial on human […]
Representative image (agencies) A US federal appeals court on Wednesday stayed a lower court’s order that had temporarily protected around 60,000 migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal from deportation. The decision, issued by the 9th US circuit court of appeals in San Francisco, supports the Trump administration’s move to end temporary protected status (TPS) for […]
Good moral character is now a necessary requirement to get US citizenship. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services has asked officers to heavily focus on “good moral character” while considering citizenship applications of immigrants. It is not a new requirement and good moral character usually refers to the absence of criminal offenses of disqualifying conduct […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the Donald Trump administration has issued a fresh directive requiring all foreign nationals who remain in the United States for over 30 days to register with the federal government. Failure to comply, the department warned, could result in heavy fines, jail time, or permanent bans from legal immigration.The […]
The Trump administration on Thursday announced sweeping new measures aimed at restricting undocumented immigrants from accessing taxpayer-funded education and health care programs, according to The New York Post. The move, officials claim, could save approximately $40 billion.Multiple federal departments, including Education, Agriculture, Labor, Justice, and Health and Human Services (HHS)- issued separate statements underscoring the […]
Hundreds of thousands of Haitians living legally in the United States could soon face deportation, after the Trump administration announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for the Caribbean nation.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on Friday that conditions in Haiti had improved sufficiently to end the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program, which […]
An X post claimed some Indians in US got their bank accounts frozen before they were deported. A social media post sparked fear and speculation on X as the user claimed that an Indian immigrant recently told him that a lot of Indians are getting their bank accounts frozen before getting deported. The post suggested […]
