ICE raids Asian supermarkets in New York

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided a pair of Asia Food Market locations in western New York last Wednesday, making mult...

Korean American researcher held at airport for weeks over decade-old weed conviction

A 40-year-old scientist and legal permanent resident has been detained by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection at San Francisco Internatio...

US migration may go negative for the 1st time in over 60 years

Net migration to the United States may plunge to its lowest level in decades this year, according to a new report from D.C. think tanks Amer...

Americans’ views on immigration have dramatically shifted, poll shows

A record 79% of Americans now consider immigration beneficial to the country, reversing from 2024 when 55% wanted immigration reduced, accor...

ICE increasingly targeting non-criminals as deportation campaign intensifies

More than half of immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in recent months have no criminal convictions, suggesting...

US deports Asians to war-torn South Sudan

The Trump administration deported eight men — including Asian nationals — convicted of serious crimes to conflict-ridden South Sudan last we...

George Takei: Immigrant detentions like WWII incarceration of Japanese Americans

Japanese American activist George Takei, who was incarcerated as a child during World War II, has drawn parallels between the U.S. governmen...

Two dozen Hmong men in Minnesota face deportation

Twenty-four Hmong men who settled in Minnesota decades ago are being held in jails across Minnesota and Iowa as they await deportation to La...

ICE detention funding now 5 times higher than federal prison system budget

Congress has approved a historic $170 billion immigration enforcement package that includes $45 billion to nearly double the nation’s capaci...

Asian immigrants among Guantanamo Bay’s newest detainees

The Trump administration has reportedly broadened the range of nationalities among immigration detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, now includi...

Asian Americans express solidarity with Latinos amid ICE raids in Los Angeles

Asian American and Pacific Islander leaders are organizing their communities to support Latinos as federal immigration enforcement expands a...

Purple Heart veteran forced to self-deport after 48 years in ‘country that I fought for’

A decorated Army veteran was forced to leave his family in Hawaii for South Korea on Monday after immigration officials ended his deferred a...

Trump admin orders social media checks for foreign students seeking visas

The State Department is requiring all foreign nationals seeking student and exchange visas to make their social media accounts public for go...

Orange County Viet Americans challenge Rep. Derek Tran over his response to ICE raids

Vietnamese American activists in Orange County’s Little Saigon are demanding Rep. Derek Tran take bolder action against federal immigration ...

Trump orders ICE to increase deportations in Democratic cities

President Donald Trump has ordered federal immigration officials to focus deportation efforts on Democratic-controlled cities, intensifying ...

Minnesota Hmong American lawmaker responds to backlash over her immigration story

Minnesota State Representative Kaohly Vang Her, one of the nation’s few Hmong American lawmakers, clarified on Monday that she and her...

Federal immigration raids in Los Angeles spark protests nationwide

Federal immigration enforcement operations across Los Angeles on Friday culminating President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard tr...

Boston mayor Wu draws federal backlash for comparing masked ICE agents to neo-Nazis

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is taking heat from federal officials after comparing masked ICE agents to “secret police” and suggesting similarit...

ICE gained backdoor access to nationwide license plate camera network: report

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has allegedly obtained informal access to a nationwide network of automatic license plate reader (...

Navy vet’s daughter remains in ICE detention despite US citizenship claims

A Filipino woman has been detained at a Georgia immigration facility since March after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested he...

Woman condemns Vietnamese husband’s deportation to South Sudan

A woman in Pierce County, Washington state, has expressed outrage after her husband was unexpectedly deported to South Sudan instead of Viet...

Missouri community rallies behind Chinese woman facing deportation

A Chinese immigrant and mother of three has become the center of a grassroots support campaign after federal agents arrested her during what...

Judge rules Trump admin’s deportation of immigrants to South Sudan violated court order

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration breached his court order when it sent immigrants — including from Asian countr...

Deaf Mongolian man faces deportation without due process

A deaf Mongolian man has spent over 80 days detained at California’s Otay Mesa Detention Center without seeing an immigration judge or acces...

Trump’s attempt to deport Asian immigrants to Libya blocked

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration’s plan to deport Asian immigrants to Libya would violate an existing court ord...

Vietnamese refugee suffering from dementia dies in ICE custody in Texas

A 55-year-old Vietnamese refugee with dementia reportedly died of natural causes while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) cus...

Indonesian father faces possible deportation after secret visa revocation

An Indonesian man is now facing possible deportation as he remains detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after agents secret...

24 Filipinos deported, more being processed

Twenty-four Filipino nationals were recently deported for alleged illegal activities, according to Philippine Ambassador to the U.S. Jose Ma...

Trump unleashes sweeping immigration crackdown

President Donald Trump could soon deploy thousands of additional troops to the southern border, following through his campaign promise of a ...

Org launches free multilingual app aimed at empowering immigrants in need of help

The National Korean American Service and Education Consortium (NAKASEC) has launched a free mobile app, “Know Your Rights 4 Immigrants...

Trump confirms he will declare national emergency, use military for mass deportation

President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed he will declare a national emergency and use the military to carry out mass deportations of undoc...

Undocumented Chinese among the first Trump will target for mass deportation: report

Undocumented Chinese immigrants reportedly stand to be among the first targeted by President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan, rai...

Anti-immigrant rhetoric, policies endanger South Asians in Canada

Anti-immigrant political rhetoric and online hate speech have sparked a disturbing trend of anti-South Asian sentiment in Canada. The prejud...

Vietnamese human smuggler wants UK to increase anti-illegal immigration effort

A repentant Vietnamese human smuggler has spoken out, urging the U.K. government to increase its efforts in publicizing the difficulties for...

Trump calls USA ‘garbage can for the world’ in latest escalation of anti-immigrant rhetoric

Donald Trump described the U.S. as “like a garbage can for the world” at a rally in Tempe, Arizona, on Thursday while denouncing the Biden a...

Japan’s foreign population hits record 3.5 million amid labor shortage

The number of foreigners living in Japan hit a record high of 3.5 million by mid-2024, according to Japan’s Immigration Services Agency. Dri...