What to know as Trump’s immigration crackdown strips tuition breaks from thousands of students

By  JIM VERTUNO, AUSTIN, Texas (AP):- Tens of thousands of U.S. college students without legal resident status are losing access to in-state tuition prices as part of President Donald Trump’s..

Judge considers whether Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detention center violates environmental law

By  DAVID FISCHER and MIKE SCHNEIDER, MIAMI (AP):- A federal judge heard arguments Wednesday over whether to stop construction of an immigration detention center — built in the middle of the..

About 300 migrants start walking north in southern Mexico, but goal is not US border

TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP):- About 300 migrants walked out of this southern Mexican city Wednesday, hoping to move north, even as the activist who helped organize them remained in police custody over..

Justice Department releases new list of so-called sanctuary jurisdictions

By  TIM SULLIVAN, (AP):- The Justice Department identified some three dozen states, cities and counties as so-called sanctuary jurisdictions on Tuesday, two months after the federal government..

Mexican authorities arrest outspoken activist ahead of a planned migrant caravan

By  EDGAR H. CLEMENTE and MARÍA VERZA, TAPACHULA, Mexico (AP):- Authorities arrested an outspoken activist and immigration advocate in southern Mexico on Tuesday, a day before a group of..

Rwanda agrees to take deportees from the US after a previous migrant deal with the UK collapsed

By  IGNATIUS SSUUNA and GERALD IMRAY, KIGALI, Rwanda (AP):- Rwanda on Tuesday became the third African nation to agree to accept deportees from the United States under the Trump..

By  MIKE SCHNEIDER, ORLANDO, Fla. (AP):- Federal and state officials in Florida must produce agreements showing which government agency or private contractor has legal authority to detain people or..

The UN says 68 African migrants were killed when a boat capsized off Yemen

By  SAMY MAGDY, CAIRO (AP):- A boat capsized Sunday in waters off Yemen’s coast leaving 68 African migrants dead and 74 others missing, the U.N.’s migration agency said. The tragedy was the..

USCIS Updating Policy to Protect Women’s Sports

WASHINGTON:- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is issuing guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual in alignment with Executive Order 14201, Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports, which directs..

The UN says 68 African migrants were killed when a boat capsized off Yemen

By  SAMY MAGDY, CAIRO (AP):-  A boat capsized Sunday in waters off Yemen’s coast leaving 68 African migrants dead and 74 others missing, the U.N.’s migration agency said. The tragedy was..

Britain hopes a crackdown on people-smugglers’ social media ads will help curb Channel crossings

By  JILL LAWLESS, LONDON (AP):- Britain says people who advertise fake passports or people-smuggling services on social medial could face up to five years in prison, in the government’s latest..

Rival anti-migrant and anti-racism protests face off outside a hotel housing migrants in London

LONDON (AP):- Anti-immigrant and anti-racism demonstrators faced off in London on Saturday in the latest in a series of protests outside hotels housing asylum-seekers. Several hundred protesters..

Appeals court keeps order blocking Trump administration from indiscriminate immigration sweeps

By  JAIMIE DING, LOS ANGELES (AP):- A federal appeals court ruled Friday night to uphold a lower court’s temporary order blocking the Trump administration from conducting indiscriminate..

A Tunisian musician was detained in LA after living in US for a decade. His doctor wife speaks out

By  JAIMIE DING, LOS ANGELES (AP):- Dr. Wafaa Alrashid noticed fewer of her patients were showing up for their appointments at the Los Angeles area hospital where she works as immigration raids..

Judge pauses Trump administration’s push to expand fast-track deportations

By  MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and ELLIOT SPAGAT, WASHINGTON (AP):- A federal judge agreed on Friday to temporarily block the Trump administration’s efforts to expand fast-track deportations of..