In a year, construction industry employers in Pennsylvania will be required to verify an employee’s legal status to work in the United States through a federal database called E-Verify. Gov. Tom Wolf said Friday that he’ll let the bill become law.
British Interior Minister Priti Patel will say on Tuesday the government will end free movement and introduce an Australian-style points-based immigration system once the country leaves the European Union. Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister who recently replaced Theresa May as Conservative Party leader, has been talking about this plan for immigration for some time now.
Results of a new survey say two-thirds of Mississippians think the owners of chicken plants raided by federal immigration officers should face prosecution.
A federal judge has blocked part of a Florida law that required local police to cross state lines to help federal immigration authorities but left in place a provision where the officers would have to detain illegal immigrants until the feds come to collect them.
President Trump's immigration agenda was dealt more legal setbacks this weekend, with three federal judges blocking three separate immigration reforms. Two U.S. District Court Judges from Los Angeles and one from D.C. blocked two Trump Admin. immigration reforms and the remnants of the Secure Communities, a Bush/Obama policy.
President Donald Trump plans to reduce the annual refugee cap to 18,000 in the coming fiscal year, the State Department said Thursday. The lower ceiling follows a trend under President Trump of cutting refugee levels every year.
As the Trump Administration focused on the record-setting numbers of families and children flooding the southern border, Immigration and Customs Enforcement this year arrested significantly fewer criminal illegal aliens, the agency’s interim head said Thursday.
The Trump administration will sign an asylum agreement with Honduras, a senior Homeland Security Department official said Wednesday. The deal follows similar cooperative pacts struck with Guatemala in July and with El Salvador last week.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said France "cannot host everyone", intensifying his tough rhetoric on immigration. "France cannot host everyone if it wants to host people well," Macron told Europe 1 in an interview from the United Nations in New York where he is attending the annual General Assembly.
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the policies pushed by what he termed as “open border activists” were hurting the very people they supposedly aim to help, as he called illegal immigration one of the world’s most crucial challenges.