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Donald Trump's administration announces new rules that can deny green cards to immigrants on welfare programmes
•Donald Trump's administration had recently sent back 30,000 Central American immigrants from the US-Mexico border.
New US policy to deny asylum to people on Mexican border likely to increase overcrowding in ‘severely strained’ detention centres
•A new policy to deny asylum to anyone who shows up on the Mexican border after traveling through another country threatens to exacerbate overcrowding at severely strained US immigration detention centres and makeshift holding areas.
Homeland Security report warns of ‘dangerous overcrowding’ in Texas migrant detention centres, calls situation a ‘ticking timebomb’
•The inspector general for the US Department of Homeland Security warned on Tuesday about "dangerous overcrowding" in migrant detention facilities in Texas.
MEA gains consular access to 117 Indian students detained in US; immigration attorneys criticise Washington for 'trapping' them
Fp Staff •The MEA's statement came after the US State Department said all 130 foreign students detained in the US for enrolling in the fake university, were aware that they were committing a crime to fraudulently remain in the country.
Govt knowingly misled Indian students detained in US by setting up fake university, says Indian-American attorney
•Flooded with phone calls from panic-stricken students, an eminent Indian-American attorney on Tuesday alleged that the US Department of Homeland Security had knowingly allowed the "fake university" to be set up and misled students sitting hundreds of miles away in another country.
ICE fake university: 'It's entrapment', say Indians reacting to news of 130 students arrested across 20 US cities
Nikhila Natrajan •Indians in the US and in India still coming to grips with the news of more than a hundred people arrested - mostly students - across US cities this week are increasingly using a one word reaction to a carefully laid fake University trap by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) to round up visa fraudsters: “entrapment”.
8 Indians, Indian-Americans arrested in US in fake student visa racket; accused indicted of facilitating foreigners' illegal stay
•US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested eight persons — all of whom are either Indian nationals or Indian-Americans – on charges of fraudulently facilitating hundreds of immigrants to illegally remain in the US as students.
Marking start of Donald Trump's major policy shift, first group of migrants seeking asylum in US sent back to Mexico's Tijuana
•The US policy, dubbed the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), will return non-Mexican migrants who cross the US southern border back to wait in Mexico while their asylum requests are processed in US immigration courts.
Guatemalan boy dies in US immigration custody; 8-year-old becomes second child to die at border in December
•The death of the Guatemalan boy came during an ongoing dispute over border security and with a partial US government shutdown underway over President Donald Trump's request for border wall funding.
Trump administration for cherry-picking best talent under H-1B visa; to ensure work permits not to harm Americans
•No qualified hardworking American should be forced to train their H-1B replacement, and then let go," Homeland Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said.