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  LA protests: Trump sends 2,000 additional troops as stir against immigration crackdown intensifies

  World | June 10, 2025 8:07 IST

  LA protests: The protests negan on Friday and have grown intense since as US federal agents arrested more than 40 people in Los Angeles during a series of immigration raids.

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  Indian student Ranjani Srinivasan self-deports after US revokes visa, here is why

  World | March 15, 2025 7:32 IST

  Trump administration has intensified its campaign against foreign students for participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University last year. While the Indian national self deports herself, another woman was arrested in Newark after she failed to leave despite her visa expired.

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  Joe Biden is worst President in US history: Trump goes ballistic over Open Border Policy

  World | January 03, 2025 12:53 IST

  In a post on X, US President-elect Donald Trump has criticised the outgoing Biden administration as he refers to Joe Biden as the 'worst president' in the history of the United States. He also attacked the FBI and DoJ for 'not doing' their jobs.

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  US: 250,000 children of immigrants, including Indians, facing deportation due to visa backlogs

  World | July 27, 2024 13:19 IST

  Around 40 Senators and Congressmen have written a letter to the Biden administration to protect more than two lakh children who are facing deportation. The White House has blamed the Republicans for voting down a bipartisan agreement for 'documented dreamers'.

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  US closes part of Texas border, begins flying Haitians home

  World | September 20, 2021 7:16 IST

  Thousands of Haitian migrants have been arriving to Del Rio, Texas, as authorities attempt to close the border to stop the flow of migrants.

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  US flying Central Americans to Mexico to deter crossings

  World | August 07, 2021 6:50 IST

  For years, the U.S. government has intermittently flown deported Mexican migrants back home to make it more difficult to try to cross the border again.

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  Taking steps for citizenship to children of legal immigrants: US

  World | August 05, 2021 7:56 IST

  White House Press Secy Jen Psaki told this to reporters at her daily news conference while responding to questions on the fear among a section of children, most from India, because of decades-long wait for their green card.

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  Big relief to Indian IT professionals: Bill eliminating per-country cap for employment visas cleared

  World | December 03, 2020 13:48 IST

  The passage of the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act by the Senate on Wednesday comes as a big relief to Indian IT professionals who come to the US on H-1B work visas and their current waiting period for Green Card or permanent residency is running into decades.

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  US awards immigration detention contracts in California

  World | December 24, 2019 11:16 IST

  The Trump administration awarded billions of dollars in contracts for private companies to operate immigration detention centers in California —- less than two weeks before a new state law takes effect to prohibit them. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill in October to ban contracts for for-profit prisons starting Jan. 1. Supporters hoped the law would force U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to look elsewhere after current contracts expire.

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  US Judge orders government separated families must be reunited within 30 days

  World | June 27, 2018 11:38 IST

  If children are younger than 5, they must be reunified within 14 days of the order issued on Tuesday by US District Judge Dana Sabraw in San Diego. 

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  Texas group takes in about 30 parents separated from kids

  World | June 25, 2018 11:08 IST

  The release on Sunday is believed to be the first, large one of its kind since President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday that preserved a “zero-tolerance” policy for entering the country illegally but ended the practice of separating immigrant parents and children.

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  Trump tweet may doom House Republicans' effort on immigration

  World | June 23, 2018 15:10 IST

  Trump likely put the nail in the coffin, telling Republicans on Friday they should "stop wasting their time" on the divisive issue.

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  US child migrants: First lady calls for end to Trump's separation policy

  World | June 18, 2018 11:40 IST

  Opposing President Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" policy Melania Trump has called for an end of separating parents and children illegally entering the country from Mexico

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  MasterChef Australia Judge Matt Preston is all praises for Priyanka Chopra and Vidya Balan. Here’s what he said

  Celebrities | December 03, 2017 16:05 IST

  Matt Preston finds Vidya Balan smart, intelligent and thoroughly entertaining.

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  Obama to shield many from deportation: Sources

  World | November 14, 2014 15:00 IST

  Washington: President Barack Obama is poised to unveil executive action that will shield possibly around 5 million immigrants living in the US illegally from deportation, according to advocates in touch with the White House, an