US Immigration News

The US Supreme Court has dismissed an attempt made by Republican-led states to take over the legal defense of a hardline US immigration policy introduced by former US President, Donald Trump, which prohibited permanent residency for immigrants deemed likely to need US government benefits. 

 

Lowering US visa wait times for international visitors will form part of a new US National Travel and Tourism Strategy, which aims to attract 90 million tourists a year to America by 2027. The strategy was unveiled at the annual IPW convention in Orlando, Florida, which was attended by nearly 5,000 travel delegates from 60 countries.

 

Assistant secretary of commerce for industry and analysis, Grant Harris, announced the strategy to delegates as he revealed that the 90 million visitor target would top pre-pandemic totals of just under 80 million recorded in 2019.

Tech industry giants such as Google, Amazon and Twitter are urging the Biden administration to scrap a US immigration ‘aging-out’ policy that forces the children of US visa holders out of the country once they pass the age of 21 if they don’t have their own US immigration status. 

 

A federal judge has thrown out a Biden US immigration directive that would have narrowed who can be targeted by US immigration agents for arrest and deportation. The federal judge sided with the states of Louisiana and Texas, which had challenged the policy proposed by the Biden administration.

 

US President Joe Biden is targeting a US immigration deal that would see immigrants at the US-Mexico border relocated to Spain. It’s understood that Washington and Madrid are close to agreeing a deal as the refugee crisis at the US southern border worsens. 

 

The proposals, which officials have stressed are still under discussion, could be announced at this week’s Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, where Biden is looking to secure greater global co-operation on the migrant crisis in Central America, which has escalated during his presidency.

As leaders gathered for Biden’s recent Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, over 2,500 miles away the largest US-bound migrant caravan ever seen gathered in Chiapas, Mexico. According to reports, up to 15,000 people could join the caravan, and while it is not the first migrant caravan to emerge from Central America, it is expected to be the biggest ever seen.