Tag: Trump immigration crackdown

U.S. lifts hold on immigration applications for doctors, but leaves others waiting

May 8, 2026 admin

Libyan Dr. Faysal Alghoula must renew his green card to continue caring for roughly 1,000 patients in southwestern Indiana, but hasn’t been able to since the Trump administration stopped reviewing applications for people from several dozen countries it deemed high-risk. Dr. Alghoula’s current visa will expire in September if his application is denied. But last…

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‘ResistDance’ at Lincoln Memorial: First Amendment Troop honours Renee Good and Alex Pretti

February 18, 2026 admin

The performance at Lincoln Memorial was orchestrated by the advocacy wing of Hungryman Productions, spearheaded by Bryan Buckley, aimed to honour the memory of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Photo: Screengrab/ Instagram @firstamendmenttroop On President’s Day (February 16, 2026), the First Amendment Troop staged “ResistDance” at Lincoln Memorial, a powerful tribute and act of artistic…

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U.S. government enters partial shutdown amid immigration funding dispute

January 31, 2026 admin

The U.S. government entered a partial shutdown Saturday (January 31, 2026) as a midnight funding deadline passed without Congress approving a 2026 Budget, though disruption was expected to be limited with the House set to move early next week to ratify a Senate-backed deal. The funding lapse followed a breakdown in negotiations driven by Democratic…

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Trump set to expand immigration crackdown in 2026 despite brewing backlash

December 21, 2025 admin

U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing for a more aggressive immigration crackdown in 2026 with billions in new ‍funding, including by raiding more workplaces — even as backlash builds ahead of next year’s midterm elections. Mr. Trump has already surged immigration agents into major U.S. cities, where they swept through neighborhoods and clashed with residents….

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Trump administration separates thousands of migrant families in U.S.

December 11, 2025 admin

U.S. President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy split more than 5,000 children from their families at the Mexico border during his first term. Border crossings sit at a record low nearly a year into his second administration and a new wave of immigration enforcement is dividing families inside the U.S. Federal officials and their local…

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Nearly 200,000 Ukrainians in U.S. thrown into legal limbo by Trump immigration crackdown

November 23, 2025 admin

Kateryna Golizdra has survived six months in legal limbo – so far. She thinks she can hold out another six months, waiting for Donald Trump’s administration to decide the fate of a humanitarian program that allowed some 260,000 people who fled the war in Ukraine to live and work in the United States. When her…

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73-year-old ‘undocumented’ Sikh woman deported from U.S. after 33 years

September 26, 2025 admin

A 73-year old “undocumented” Sikh woman, who lived in the United States for more than 30 years, was deported to India earlier this week after being detained by immigration authorities in California without being given the chance to even say goodbye to her relatives, her advocate said. In an Instagram post on Wednesday, Deepak Ahluwalia,…

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Elon Musk Responds To White House’s ‘ASMR’ Video Of Deportation Flight

February 19, 2025 admin

Washington DC: US President Donald Trump’s billionaire adviser Elon Musk a video posted by the White House showing immigrants in shackles being prepared to board a deportation flight from Seattle. The footage shared by the White House on social media showed illegal immigrants being put in cuffs and shackles while being prepared to board a…

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Costa Rica To Take Indian, Central Asian Deportees From US, They’ll Later Be Sent To…

February 18, 2025 admin

San Jose: Following in the footsteps of Panama and Guatemala, Costa Rica also announced on Monday it was willing to receive illegal migrants deported from the United States, who are nationals of other countries. The Central American nation’s presidential office said in a statement that 200 migrants from central Asia and India would be arriving…

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ICE arrests 956 migrants as part of Trump’s immigration crackdown

January 27, 2025 admin

One of two documented immigrants with prior convictions detained by U.S. Immigrations and Customs (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents, walks handcuffed as an agent holds his arm, at a Home Depot parking lot in Tucson, Arizona, U.S., January 26, 2025. | Photo Credit: Reuters Top Trump administration officials, including “border czar” Tom Homan and…

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