US Immigration News

Julie Kirchner, the former executive director of anti-immigrant organization FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform) referred to by the Southern Poverty Law Center as being a “Hate Group” has been installed as the new chief of staff at US Visa US customs and border protection (CBP) by the Trump administration, in a move that seems to suggest that the President fully intends to stick to promises made to anti-immigrant supporters.  Many would say that the restrictions on US visas advocated by FAIR are extreme.

Following a public hearing marred by angry clashes between supporters of Donald Trump who is now President and pro-immigration campaigners, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the opening of a new office that will offer US Visa county assistance to immigrants.

Threats made by senator Jeff Sessions – now the Attorney General appointed by Donald Trump now US President – have been brushed off by Indian IT firms. India’s tech industry says they’ve ‘arrived at a stage where they can smoothly adapt to alterations in US immigration rules.’

A group of protesters amassed at the Metropolitan AME Church in Washington on Saturday, January 14 in a show of support for rallies taking place across the US, decrying incoming President Donald Trump for his anti-immigrant rhetoric and his pledges to construct a US-Mexico border wall and introduce a Muslim registry system.

Throughout his presidential campaign, Trump, whose inauguration took place on Friday, January 20, adopted an extreme and controversial anti-immigrant stance, which inflamed tensions with American Muslims and drew criticism from around the world.

During the visit to the US in January 2017 to meet newly installed President Donald Trump, UK Prime Minister Theresa May, planned to discuss how to boost US-UK migration - according to sources within the British government. May was in the US partly to discuss an early trade deal once Britain has left the European Union.

President Trump won the elections despite what many people may be surprised to hear is a pro immigrant bias amongst the electorate. A new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center - a non-partisan American ‘fact tank’ (as referred to by them) - has found that Americans are ‘more positive about US immigration than they have been in decades.’ Equally, US citizens are concerned about discrimination toward Muslims. Many survey participants also said they want an America that’s ‘engaged with the world.’