US Immigration Ban

A total of 8,565 migrants died on land and sea routes worldwide last year, the U.N. migration agency said Wednesday, a record high since it began counting deaths a decade ago. The International Organization for Migration said the biggest increase in deaths last year was on the treacherous Mediterranean Sea crossing, to 3,129 from 2,411 in 2022. However, that was well below the record 5,136 deaths recorded on the Mediterranean in 2016 as huge numbers of Syrians, Afghans and others fled conflicts toward Europe. IOM said the total number of deaths among migrants in 2023 was nearly 20% more than the previous year. It said most of the deaths last year, about 3,700, came from drowning. The count also includes migrants who vanished often while trying to cross by sea and are presumed dead even if their bodies were not found. The Geneva-based migration agency cautioned that the figures likely underestimate the real toll, and factors such as improved data collection methods play a part in

New Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday alleged that Ex-US president Donald Trump had dismantled the country's immigration system and it takes time to "rebuild it from scratch"

The letter, dated April 23, was released to the media on Friday, a day after Trump issued an executive order that suspended issuing of new Green Cards for the next 90 days

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE in March arrested 161 students from the fake university established by it in the US state of Michigan

US District Judge Jon Tigar on Monday in San Francisco issued a temporary restraining order against the Trump order.

Facing rough weather amid large-scale layoffs and visa curbs in the US, the Indian IT industry body Nasscom has stepped up its lobbying with the American lawmakers significantly with an over one-third increase in money spent on such activities. According to the latest lobbying disclosure reports filed with the US Senate, the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) paid a total amount of USD 1,50,000 (nearly Rs 1 crore) to its two registered lobbyists in the first quarter of 2017. This marks a significant rise from USD 1,10,000 paid to the two lobbyists in the previous quarter ended December 2016. The amount was same for each of the four quarter of 2016. Among the two lobbyists, The Lande Group was paid USD 50,000 in January-March quarter of 2017 -- the same as the money paid in each of the four quarters of 2016. However, the other lobbyist, Wexler & Walker, a unit of Hill+Knowlton Strategies, LLC, was paid USD 100,000 in the first quarter of 2017, as .

Federal authorities noted that a majority of those arrested were still people with criminal records

Hard economic logic is unlikely to turn the anti-global, anti-foreign tide

Some visa holders have been in America for so long that they cannot imagine living elsewhere

Trump, however, stood behind his border wall for the US-Mexican border

US State Department sends guidance to embassies to meet the Trump memorandum's requirements

Over the course of the Obama administration, ICE agents gradually began to exercise more discretion

Like many universities across USA, the Oregon university is getting fewer international applications

He said he would take the case as far as it needs to go

A Syrian Muslim who fled to Wisconsin has been working to win asylum for his wife and daughter

Hawaii's lawsuit had been on hold while a nationwide injunction on the initial ban remained in place

While the term alternative facts is great comedy material, the ideology is not funny

The new order still has the original's 120-day ban on the entry of refugees from all countries

The new order was to be signed last week but was pushed back after Trump's joint address to Congress

The suspended order halts general refugee admissions for 120 days