By RON NIXON WASHINGTON — A contentious visa program that allows wealthy foreigners to obtain United States citizenship by investing in economic development projects will expire at the end of this month unless Congress acts to extend it. The program, called EB-5, allows foreign investors to gain citizenship by investing […]
By Jeff Karoub and Deepti Hajela DETROIT — Identification cards issued by a growing number of U.S. cities to make it easier for immigrants living in the country illegally and poor people to open bank accounts and access social services are now being used as passes for anything from pharmacy […]
Research Group Predicts the Amount of Child Refugees to Enter the U.S. in 2016 – 127,000
9 Sep
by Foster, on News
By Claudia Balthazar (staff@latinpost.com) A research group estimated that more than 127,000 children will enter the United States in the year 2016, up from less than 100,000 unauthorized migrants that entered the U.S. in 2015, in a report released on Wednesday. The research group, Child Trends, estimated that only about […]
Though federal laws and rules don’t mention Hawaii’s fishing fleet by name, technicalities buried in immigration law, maritime regulations and agency rule books have combined to give it a rare distinction: In the Aloha State hundreds of foreign fishermen are stuck on their boats for years. The Magnuson-Stevens and Jones […]