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The Trump administration has sued California for providing in-state college tuition, scholarships, and state-funded financial aid to students who aren't legally in the United States. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, alleges the practice harms U.S. citizens and encourages illegal immigration. Among the defendants are the state, top state officials, and the state's two public university systems, the University of California and California State.

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Net migration has in fact been falling since before Labour came to power last July, and yet there has been no end of demand for ever tighter controls and no end of government acquiescence. New figures published this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), adjusting historical data for methodological changes, show that net migration was 944,000 for the year ending March 2023 about 40,000 higher than had previously been thought. The drop since then has also been steeper.

In an statement Friday, the OINP office said it had identified systemic misrepresentation and/or fraud related to the eligibility requirements of the skilled trades stream of the program. The OINP director then decided to suspend the skilled trades stream, the statement said, and return all outstanding applications under it something protesters say has left hundreds of workers in limbo on their status in Canada.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services wants to expand a Biden-era policy known as public charge that could further curtail immigrants' use of public benefits. That means that migrants' use of safety net programs, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or Medicare, could be considered when determining whether they should be granted further legal status, such as a green card. Homeland Security Department officials released a new proposed regulation this week that's set to be published in the Federal Register on Wednesday.

Diana Gameros put it all down on paper, a detailed musical map designed to flip the script about immigration via a set of classic Mexican boleros she'd sung with her grandmother "and celebratory songs I wrote after finally returning to Mexico," she said. She'd spent more than a decade living in the Bay Area without legal status before procuring a visa that allowed her to visit her family in Ciudad Juárez.

Every time I open my Facebook, the video of my husband's capture seems to come up.

South African authorities are facing heavy criticism after they held more than 150 Palestinians, including a woman who was nine months pregnant, on a plane for about 12 hours because of problems with their travel documents. A pastor who was allowed to meet the passengers while they were stuck on the plane said it was extremely hot and that children were screaming and crying.

"I remember waiting every Friday for the officials to call our family's name," Roman recalls. "When they finally did, it felt like winning the lottery."

The administrator for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Mehmet Oz, recently claimed that an audit revealed more than $1bn of federal taxpayer dollars were being spent on funding Medicaid for illegal immigrants, but experts say the audits were unrelated to immigration, and that rhetoric like this could make immigrant families regardless of legal status afraid to seek necessary medical care.

My family, originally from Portugal, moved to America when I was three. We became naturalised US citizens, though we always kept our Portuguese citizenship. I now have settled status in the UK, having lived here for five years. Miles is from Cornwall, I have friends in Devon so I know there's rivalry about the proper way to do scones and cream and jam.

At the turn of the 20th century, a young Sicilian woman who will soon marry a "rich American" presents two postcards, supposedly from the United States, to a village elder. The first depicts a man holding a wheelbarrow that contains a massive onion, so large that it dwarfs both the wheelbarrow and the man. The second postcard displays a tree that is bursting with coins, as if money is sprouting from the branches.

I.C.E. agents are horror fans too, right? It seems like you'd have to be to voluntarily risk your reputation for a hobby most famously associated with slasher villains. Sure, there are the red-blooded Americans who say they joined up to salute a bigoted version of Superman that never existed. But when I want to talk to Dean Cain, I prefer walking directions to the most publicly pathetic man in Las Vegas.

It's a big loss. You can say that these states were traditionally blue, but you can also say that heading in, there was some thought that, especially New Jersey, that [Jack Ciattarelli] would do better. The spreads here are surprising. Maybe not the results, but the spreads. And if you look inside the numbers, there are some dangerous things. One, young women overwhelmingly in New Jersey and Virginia supported the Democrat based on economy.

If you're filing an immigration form - or helping someone who is - the Feds may soon want to look in your eyes, swab your cheek, and scan your face. The US Department of Homeland Security wants to greatly expand biometric data collection for immigration applications, covering immigrants and even some US citizens tied to those cases. DHS, through its component agency US Citizenship and Immigration Services, on Monday proposed a sweeping expansion of the agency's collection of biometric data.

I don't accept that the ramifications of that phrase were not fully understood, and it was appealing to a particular audience, said Martin Forde KC, a leading barrister who has investigated claims of racism within Labour. Forde, whose parents migrated from the Caribbean, said Lam's comments were a thinly disguised keep Britain white campaign. The leading barrister said the current political discourse was an absolute indictment that someone such as himself, from generations of people who had contributed to the country, should still feel insecure.

The US president appeared on the news show for the first time since 2020, when he walked out during an interview. US President Donald Trump has appeared on the CBS News programme 60 Minutes just months after he won a $16m settlement from the broadcaster for alleged deceptive editing. In the interview with CBS host Norah O'Donnell, which was filmed last Friday at his Mar-a-Lago residence and aired on Sunday, Trump touched on several topics,

Sr Stan was a powerful voice for compassion, equality, and systemic change throughout her life,

radical-left democrats who have shut our government down and held the American people hostage for 32 days in a row, Leavitt started off by saying. She then ran through a laundry list of issues piling up because of the shutdown, including SNAP benefits going unpaid and air traffic controller shortages. Leavitt said these issues are all due to the Dems being unwilling to cut a deal and reopen the government which is why ditching the filibuster is necessary, she said.