immigration

ALBANY, NEW YORK – New York state, New York City, Connecticut and Vermont sued the federal government Tuesday over new Trump administration rules blocking green cards for many immigrants who use public assistance including…

Immigration authorities revoked a record 832 visas in 2018, more than double the figure of a year earlier, Justice Ministry data showed Monday.The most common reason was ceasing to conduct an activity permitted by the visa…

LOS ANGELES – Immigrants held in U.S. detention facilities filed a lawsuit Monday decrying what they called shoddy medical care and a failure by authorities to provide accommodations for disabilities.In the suit filed by disability…

A Pakistani man who has received notice of deportation after living in Japan for more than 30 years has filed a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court, seeking special permission to remain in the country with his ailing wife.Mohamad…

DALLAS – Travelers flying into the United States on Friday ran into long lines at major airports nationwide because of a temporary computer outage that affected the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency.Airports warned…

PORTLAND, MAINE – Most African asylum seekers who made the perilous journey through Central America to the southern U.S. border and flooded shelters in Maine’s largest city have new homes.Thursday marked the closing of an…

NEW YORK – A Mississippi chicken processing plant fired most of its remaining workers after nearly 100 accused of immigration violations were arrested last week, witnesses said, an indication that the crackdown could make finding…

WASHINGTON – A top Trump administration official says the famous inscription on the Statue of Liberty, welcoming “huddled masses” of immigrants to American shores, was referring to “people coming from Europe” and that the nation is…

ROME – Spanish humanitarian ship Open Arms headed for Lampedusa on Wednesday with 147 rescued migrants on board after a judge in Rome suspended far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s decree banning them from Italian…

WASHINGTON – A top Trump administration official says the famous inscription on the Statue of Liberty, welcoming “huddled masses” of immigrants to American shores, was referring to “people coming from Europe” and that the nation is…

WELLINGTON – New Zealand officials admitted Wednesday that they made a mistake by allowing the man accused of killing 51 people at two Christchurch mosques to send a hand-written letter from his prison cell.The six-page letter from…

JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI – White supremacist ideology is helping fuel domestic terrorism in the United States, the head of Homeland Security said Tuesday.Acting Secretary Kevin K. McAleenan appeared in Jackson, Mississippi, for a…

ROME – Italy’s political leaders scrambled to line up allies and form alliances Tuesday as the country’s right-wing interior minister pressed his demands for an early election in hopes of snagging the premiership as a platform for…

HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA – Pennsylvania’s governor says at least four children from his state were recently separated from their parents by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and wrote Monday to demand the agency halt the…

WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice is challenging the right of the country’s 440 immigration judges to be represented by a labor union in a move the judges said was aimed at silencing their criticism.A petition filed Friday…

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is moving forward with one of its most aggressive steps yet to restrict legal immigration, denying green cards to many migrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of…

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO – When Michelle Otero arrived at an art show featuring Mexican-American women, the first thing she did was scan the room. Two exits. One security guard.Then she thought to herself: If a shooter bursts in,…

WASHINGTON – The timing of a string of immigration enforcement raids at Mississippi food processing plants last week was “unfortunate,” but the actions had been planned for over a year, the top U.S. Homeland Security official said…

ROME/LAMEZIA TERME, ITALY – Matteo Salvini, who has plunged Italy into turmoil by pulling out of a coalition government, could eventually take the country out of the EU, a former prime minister warned Sunday.Interior Minister…

A residency program that allows fourth-generation Japanese descendants living overseas to work in the country has been rarely used due to strict requirements such as language proficiency and age.Under the program introduced in July…