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U.S. President Donald Trump. File | Photo Credit: Reuters President Donald Trump has extended an executive order that would impose a fee of $100,000 for H-1B non-immigrant visas by another year, the White House said on Friday (September 18, 2026). U.S. employers seeking to hire skilled foreign workers can use the federal government’s H-1B visa…
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U.S. President Donald Trump. File. | Photo Credit: AP President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families to pursue its mass deportation agenda, an Associated Press investigation found. More than 50 parents and spouses of active-duty service members have…
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A detainee gestures near a window outside the Delaney Hall detention center, in Newark, New Jersey, U.S. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters The United Nations human rights chief on Friday called for independent investigations into deaths of people in U.S. immigration custody, saying that 19 people have died in detention so far this year. “Those…
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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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DHS began a partial shutdown last week after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach a deal on immigration enforcement reforms. | Photo Credit: Reuters The halt in the programs run by the DHS will begin from 6 a.m. ET (1100 GMT), the newspaper cited an agency spokesperson as saying on Saturday (February 21, 2026) The…
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An order to release 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from detention, which included a picture of the boy and Bible verse references under the signature of U.S. District Judge Fred Biery photographed on January 31, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP A Judge on Saturday ordered the U.S. to release a 5-year-old boy and…
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Image used for representative purpose only. The State Department said on Thursday (August 21, 2025) that it’s reviewing the records of more than 55 million foreigners who hold valid U.S. visas for potential revocation or deportable violations of immigration rules. In a written answer to a question posed by The Associated Press, the department said…
Days after vowing to “go to war” to defend the H-1B visas, tech billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday said the system, which is used to bring skilled foreign workers to the US, is “broken” and needs a “major reform”. Mr Musk and Indian-American tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy have recently clashed with supporters of US President-elect…
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Tapachula: Hundreds of migrants left the Mexican city of Tapachula on foot Wednesday, aiming to arrive at the US border before President-elect Donald Trump — who has vowed massive deportations — takes office in January. The group of about 1,500 people set out from Tapachula in southern Mexico in the early morning hours for a…
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Washington DC: US President-elect Donald Trump has appointed immigration hardliner and close aide, Stephen Miller, as his White House deputy chief of staff for policy. Confirming Millar’s appointment, Vice President-elect JD Vance on Monday, congratulated the incoming deputy chief of staff for policy on X, calling him “another fantastic pick by the president.” Mr Miller…
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