By Dianne Solis | The Dallas Morning News
A national protest is widening over the pending deportations of dozens of Cameroon-born immigrants who lawyers and other advocates say were abused in U.S. detention centers and could face death if sent back to their homeland.
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By Amnesty International
Amnesty International USA calls upon the Trump administration to refrain from deporting people to Cameroon, as the administration schedules deportations this week from Alexandria Airport in Louisiana. The organization is also concerned about the threat of imminent deportation of Cameroonians now being held at the Prairieland detention center in Texas.
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By Dave Seminara | WSJ
The left keeps saying America is systemically racist and President Trump is a white supremacist. So why do so many black Africans want to immigrate?
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By International Rescue Committee
Jacqueline Uwumeremyi fled from the Democratic Republic of Congo to South Africa because of violence. After facing constant xenophobia because of her refugee status, she and her five children were finally resettled in Boise, Idaho, in 2018.
Continue reading “Stories of Welcome: Congolese refugees are embraced by their new community in Boise, Idaho”
By Jim Moodie | Sudbury Star
When the recent high school grad began exploring funding options to attend Laurentian University, however, it “felt like there was this big, huge wall,” she said. That’s because Adeoti hails from Nigeria and, despite having lived in Canada for three years, has not yet secured permanent residency.
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By Emily Zanotti | DailyWire.com
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) penned a letter to the Department of Homeland Security last week demanding that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement halt plans to deport 39 Somali nationals over concerns that they could contribute to the “spread of COVID.”
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by Meredith Somers | MIT Sloan
A new study shows that, relative to their population, immigrant-founded businesses create 42% more jobs in America than ones started by U.S.-born entrepreneurs.Share
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by: Daniel Waldron and Sanwar Ali | Workpermit.com
Donald Trump is perhaps too willing to put restrictions on African Countries. Security concerns have been used as an excuse for a more wide ranging ban on “black immigration” from Countries such as Nigeria. It is one thing to prevent entry of individuals who have behaved in an unacceptable way. It is quite another to have a more wide ranging ban on immigration.
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By Joe Penney | Jeo Penny Substack
ICE attempted to deport one of the women who had her fallopian tubes removed against her consent using expired, potentially illegal documents from an honorary consul who has issued a false travel document for ICE in the past, her mother said.
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By Marius Kothor | The New Times
The sea-washed, sunset gates of the United States are being closed to the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. President Trump and his administration have slashed the Refugee Resettlement Program, which allows people fleeing war, persecution and famine to legally move to the United States.
Continue reading “My Family Escaped From Togo To America As Refugees, Now Trump Is Trying To Kill The Program That Saved My Life”
By ALLAN WERNICK | NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Q. Are there free resources available to help me become a U.S. citizen? Or is there an inexpensive and fair lawyer you can recommend? I am currently out of work.
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by: Daniel Waldron and Sanwar Ali | Workpermit.com
It does seem to be somewhat unfair that people enter the lottery, are lucky enough to be picked, and then are told that they cannot apply for a US Green Card visa because of the Trump work visa ban. Perhaps false advertising! Fortunately, Judge Mehta’s recent judgement says that US visa lottery applicants should be able to apply, despite the “Trump ban”.
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A year ago, the office of Citizenship by Investment Program (CIP) in the small Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia had received no applications from any Africans in its nearly five years of operations.But in the past few months, it has issued up to 60 passports to Nigerians and is reporting steady increases in applications from the country—still its sole African market.
Continue reading “Wealthy Nigerians are buying up passports for cash from Caribbean nations to beat visa rules”
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA) is making the news again as the Trump administration continues its efforts to diminish the program.
Continue reading “Africans Should Fight for DACA, Too”
BY DANIEL SHOER ROTH | Miami Herald
The 2021 visa lottery winners have been announced. Egypt, Iran and Russia top the list
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By Loretta Sorensen | Hay and Forage Magazine
It’s been about 20 years since southeast South Dakota alfalfa producer Mike Brosnan recognized the need to look outside the United States for seasonal workers who could help with hay harvest throughout the summer.
Continue reading “How South African H-2A workers are helping American farmers”
By Amindeh Blaise Atabong | QUARTZ
Earlier this year, Jawar Mohammed, the prominent political activist and media entrepreneur, who had returned home to Ethiopia from the US, looked set to challenge his former ally, prime minister Abiy Ahmed, in the country’s election. But there was immediately uncertainty created over Jawar’s eligibility simply because he had been a US citizen. Ethiopian law does not allow dual nationality and even though he written letters saying he’s renounced his US citizenship that uncertainty remains.
Continue reading “African countries are having to come to terms with a growing diaspora’s dual citizenship”
Hillel Italie | Associated Press
A new book by former President George W. Bush will highlight an issue which now sets him apart from many of his fellow Republicans — immigration.
Continue reading “George W. Bush pays tribute to America’s immigrants in new book”BY DANIEL SHOER ROTH | Miami Herald
The Trump administration announced on Friday an exorbitant increase in fees for some of the most common immigration procedures, including an 81% increase in the cost of U.S. citizenship for naturalization. It will also now charge asylum-seekers, which is an unprecedented move.
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By Joe Penney | Quartz
While flights across Africa have grounded to a halt and many nations have shut their borders to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, one American agency has ignored directives to stop cross-border travel. According to figures from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U.S. has deported at least 189 African nationals to their countries of origin from Mar. 1 to Jun. 20.
Continue reading “Despite closed borders, the US is still deporting Africans during the pandemic”
In a harsh rebuke of America’s treatment of refugees, a Canadian judge has ruled that an asylum treaty with the U.S. violates Canada’s own charter of human rights, because it returns asylum-seekers to the U.S., where they are “immediately and automatically imprisoned” by U.S. authorities, often under inhumane conditions.
Continue reading “Canada-U.S. Asylum Treaty Ruled Unconstitutional Because Of ‘Cruel’ Conditions”
BY: Nana Konadu Agyeman | Graphic Online
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has told Parliament that 22 Ghanaians are currently in the process of being deported from the United States of America (USA) for breaching the immigration laws of that country. She said they were part of 100 Ghanaians on the list of persons who were at different stages of removal from the USA.
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2 groups claim to run African Diaspora Association of the Maritimes, but Liberals won’t say who’s legitimate
By Jon Tattrie | CBC News
Continue reading “African immigrant group fears defunding amid turmoil and government inaction | CBC News”
By Faderera Falade | NaijaNews
The United States government has ordered 370 Nigerians to leave the country this year after breaking immigration laws.
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By Pedro Cardoso | Elephant
On 18 April, for fear of creating hotbeds of COVID 19 contagion, a Mexico City judge ordered the release of migrants from sixty-five overcrowded immigration centres in the country. By the end of that month, with both the northern and southern border lines under lockdown, the Mexican National Migration Institute (INM) estimated that over twenty thousand migrants were now stranded around border lines; under the lockdown, even appointments to identify refugees are suspended. Among those now either living in makeshift camps or left to their own devices in the country are an estimated four thousand Africans.
Continue reading “From Angola to America: Ana’s Journey From Nothing to Nowhere”
By Farhad Manjoo | The New York Times
You might call it poetic, if it weren’t so painful. Donald Trump won the White House largely on a campaign of shutting America’s borders to pretty much everyone other than people of European descent. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” he once asked, about Haitians, Salvadorans and Africans. “We should have more people from places like Norway.”
Continue reading “The World Builds a Wall to Keep America Out”
As the US governments starts the distribution of Covid 19 stimulus Checks, some citizens are being discriminated against for being immigrants living in what’s known as a mixed immigration status household.
by Shannon Dooling | WBUR News
Continue reading “Some U.S. Citizens Aren’t Getting a Stimulus Check because they have immigrant spouses”
By Betsy Klein, Priscilla Alvarez and Kevin Liptak | CNN
Trump administration officials are scrabbling to finalize an executive order after President Donald Trump said in a late-night tweet he would temporarily suspend immigration to the United States as the nation battles the health and economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
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By León Krauze | Washington Post
The novel coronavirus has been particularly harsh on immigrants. After facing years of harassment and persecution from the Trump administration, the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States have now been left unprotected, unable to receive aid from the government’s historic stimulus package, even though they pay billions of dollars in taxes every year.
Continue reading “Undocumented immigrants, essential to the U.S. economy, deserve federal help too”
By PMnews
The United States is luring medical professionals all over the world to come to help fight COVID-19 pandemic. A country that had hitherto shut its doors against migrants has now rolled out the red carpet to welcome them.
In a Twitter post , the State Department put out an invitation to medical professionals all over the world, and that will include, we guess, professionals from countries the Trump administration has banned.
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