US Immigration News

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, says continued US visa restrictions imposed on students from China are the ‘continuation of an evil legacy’ from the Trump administration. Zhao’s remarks came during a routine press conference when responding to an open letter sent by more than 500 Chinese students to the Chinese Embassy in the US. 

 

US immigration activists have described attempts made by Texas to build its own border wall as an ‘insurrection against the US’, according to a report published by The Washington Times. A major Latino group has urged President Joe Biden to quash increasing efforts being made by so-called red-state governors to enforce their own border security.

 

A writer for the Washington Post has said that generations of anti-US immigration sentiment, sexism and racism makes America’s Statue of Liberty a ‘meaningless symbol of hypocrisy’. The comment was made by Pulitzer Prize winner and the Washington Post’s art and architecture critic, Philip Kennicott.

 

The Biden administration is reportedly in talks with three Central Asian states over taking in more than 50,000 ‘at risk’ Afghans who worked with the US military. As US troops withdraw from Afghanistan, leaving just 1,000 behind for security, fears are growing over the safety of Afghans who helped US forces, amid a rising Taliban threat.

 

US President, Joe Biden, has unveiled a new US immigration measure that will allow immigrants who served in the American army, and were later deported, to return to the US legally. 

 

US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, had ordered US immigration agencies to create a ‘rigorous, systematic approach’ to review the cases of immigrants whose deportations had ‘failed to live up to America’s highest values’.

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is reportedly ‘running at a revenue loss’, according to the Homeland Security Ombudsman. At the height of the pandemic in 2020, USCIS, which is funded entirely by US visa and immigration application fees, was on the brink of collapse and sought a billion dollar bailout from the Trump government.