US Immigration News

Joe Biden’s comprehensive US immigration bill has been delayed amid fears that it may not pass, according to several sources. House Democrats have postponed plans to vote on the US President’s bill after a whip count revealed that it could be rejected. 

 

The US immigration agency responsible for monitoring American borders is holding unaccompanied children for 77 hours on average, according to an exclusive CNN report. Internal Customs and Border Protection (CBP) documents show a growing trend in the arrest of unaccompanied children at the US border with Mexico.

 

Following a video call between US President, Joe Biden, and Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a US work visa proposed for Mexico is reportedly ‘under consideration’. Lopez Obrador said: “The question of work visas was raised… and it will be analyzed.”

 

US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, has criticized former US President, Donald Trump, for ‘entirely gutting’ the US immigration system. Mayorkas said: “We are having to rebuild out of the depths of cruelty.”

 

The US immigration system has been branded a COVID-19 super-spreader by a Scientific American report. According to the report, the continued detainment of immigrants in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers has led to some of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the country.

 

A private database containing more than 400 million names, addresses and service records from more than 80 utility companies is being used by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to pursue US immigration violators, according to Georgetown Law researchers who made The Washington Post aware of their findings.