Tag: Immigrants
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U.S. appeals court rejects Trump bid to revoke thousands of migrants’ status
A federal appeals court on Monday rejected a request by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to allow it to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans living in the United States.
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Trump presents ‘Gold Card’ for rich immigrants in U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump has presented a “Gold Card” that would give rich immigrants the right to stay in the United States indefinitely. “For 5 million dollars this could be yours,” he said on Thursday on board the presidential aircraft Air Force One.
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US terminates legal status for 500,000 immigrants, given 30 days to leave
The United States said Friday it was invalidating the legal status of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, giving them weeks to leave the country. President Donald Trump has pledged to carry out the largest deportation campaign in US history and curb immigration, mainly from Latin American nations. The order affected around 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans,…
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Tunisia arrests 1,200 illegal immigrants in 24 hours
Tunisian security units have arrested 1,200 people of different nationalities who planned to cross the Mediterranean to Europe illegally, local media reported.
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100 illegal immigrants drown off Libyan coast – report
More than 100 illegal immigrants have drowned when their boat capsized off the Libyan coast, Eugenio Ambrosi, Chief of Staff of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), announced later Thursday. “Reports of at least 100 lives lost in the Central Mediterranean today,’’ Ambrosi tweeted. “These are the human consequences of policies which fail to uphold…
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Mass deportation scare keeps immigrants on edge
By Dayo Benson, New York Today (Wednesday), Americans are regaled with the testimony of former special counsel Robert Mueller before the Congress Judiciary and Intelligence Committees over Russia interference in 2016 election. Many, especially immigrants communities, are however not oblivious of mass deportation threats hanging in the air. Most of them have remained indoors in…
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Trump confirms mass deportation of illegal immigrants commences Sunday
US President Donald Trump confirmed Friday that agents of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency will launch raids across the country this weekend to round up thousands of undocumented migrants for deportation. “They came in illegally,” he told reporters at the White House. “They are going to take people out and they are going to…
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Trump orders mass deportation of illegal immigrants Sunday
Nationwide raids to arrest immigrants who are in the United States illegally have been scheduled to begin Sunday, the Boston Globe has reported. The newspaper attributed its report to one former and two current homeland security officials and said the operation, backed by President Donald Trump, was postponed initially, partly because of resistance among officials…
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Birdman to produce Hollywood film based on Nigerian immigrants
American artist, Birdman will executive produce ‘Tazmanian Devil’, a coming-of-age film based on a Nigerian immigrant. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Nollywood movies will be the debut feature from Nigerian American filmmaker, Solomon Onita Jr. With Abraham Attah from the ‘Beast of No Nation’ playing the lead role, Benny Boom of Groundwurk…
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2019: NIS vows to deport illegal immigrants masquerading as election observers
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has vowed to deport foreign nationals who intend to disguise as tourists to illegally observe next month’s general elections in Nigeria. According to a report by Vanguard newspaper, the Controller-General of Immigration, Muhammad Babandede, said this during his first quarterly forum with Command Comptrollers and Zonal Coordinators Thursday in Abuja,…