The billions in federal relief spending during the coronavirus pandemic has markedly excluded millions of people in America: undocumented immigrants. But one U.S. state is taking the opposite tack, moving to offer these excluded workers who lost jobs during the…
(CNN) – Even though President Joe Biden has moved to reverse many of his predecessor’s anti-immigration policies, the consequences of those restrictive measures linger and have contributed to a massive backlog of nearly 2.6 million visa applications. The backlog includes…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Nearly all the wreckage along Lake Street has been hauled away. The fire-swept buildings have been torn down or repaired. The police station is empty, its entryway sealed with stacked concrete blocks like a street corner pharaoh’s…
US President Joe Biden believes that it is important and long overdue to modernize the immigration system, and this includes taking steps to help ensure highly skilled workers can stay in the country, the White House has said. Biden has…
Google’s philanthropic arm plans to spend nearly $250,000 to cover application fees for immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children who are seeking protection from deportation under an Obama-era program. Google.org announced Wednesday it would donate the money to…
The new administration could reverse some of Trump’s immigration regulations and executive orders, but it might take time to undo the damage, experts warn. What should foreign entrepreneurs in the U.S. expect? In 2021, President-elect Joe Biden will have to…
President Trump’s four-year crusade against immigration has pushed the number of foreign workers and other immigrants arriving on American shores down to the lowest level in decades. That’s pleased Trump’s supporters, but it will almost certainly cost the nation dearly…
If you were comparing immigrants to the United States from Algeria and Israel and were asked which group had higher levels of education and skills, you’d probably assume the answer is the Israelis. After all, the average Israeli has completed…
President Trump initially kept reasonable travel restrictions to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, but with the virus spreading inside the United States, he is already shifting from minimizing its threat — his first instinct — to use it to…
On Wednesday, President Trump announced new restrictions on travelers from most parts of Europe in order to slow spread of the coronavirus and the economic downfall associated with it. But, before that, it was already pretty challenging for people to…
