US Immigration News

Trump Immigration raids have been continuing for about a week.  They seem to be relatively small scale.  Communities in the US are scared and in Chicago some undocumented immigrants are taking sanctuary in Churches.   Chicago is a sanctuary city and local law enforcement will not be cooperating with ICE Immigration and Customs Enforcement.  There are a number of US cities that have decided that they will not cooperate with immigration enforcement.

US visas continue to make a great deal of news.  People in the US are now waiting and preparing for the Trump immigration raids.  Also some interesting changes to H1B visas for advanced degree holders. We cover various US visa news stories relating to the following:

It is now a requirement for most US visa applications that you need to provide your social media account names.  Presumably this will lead to even more delays and more refusals of US visa applications.  This decision has been a top US visa related news story for about the last month.  It has been said that in reality the US has been vetting social media accounts for some time anyway.

This is another way for Trump to reduce levels of immigration into the US. Is this fair and ethical? The law is there to protect these people.  Perhaps it is inevitable that Presidents will try to use their power to make it difficult to implement laws that they do not like.  Obama also tried to make changes using Executive Orders.

Legally it would surely be impossible to have a specific cap for Indians.   In addition, it seems to be extremely difficult to pass major changes to US visa legislation in Congress to make this happen.  Successive Presidents including both Trump and Obama have had great difficulty passing major US visa legislation.  

We are covering a review of some recent news reports, Tweets and social media postings put online by workpermit.com covering the following stories: