260 articles
Government
Vietnamese mother released after 154 days in ICE detention
A Maryland woman separated from her four children for 154 days under the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign reunited with her ...
Carl Samson
Home
For Asian Americans, ‘No Kings’ is about more than partisanship
Asian American leaders emerged as prominent voices in the nationwide “No Kings” demonstrations on Saturday, where an estimated seven million...
Economy
How Trump’s immigration policies will hit Asian workers hardest
The Trump administration’s immigration policies will reduce the U.S. labor force by 15.7 million workers by 2035, including 4.7 million from...
Civil Rights
Immigration advocate Kent Wong dies at 69
Kent Wong, the longtime director of UCLA Labor Center and prominent advocate for immigrant and worker rights, died Oct. 8 at a Los Angeles h...
ICE plans round-the-clock social media surveillance of immigrants, activists
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is establishing dedicated social media surveillance teams at two facilities, with plans to hire ne...
Trump’s approval plunges among Asian Americans: poll
Disapproval of President Donald Trump’s immigration approach has risen sharply among Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander ad...
ICE tickets legal resident for not carrying papers — are Asian Americans next?
A 60-year-old lawful permanent resident received a $130 ticket from immigration agents in Chicago last week for not carrying his green card,...
Crime
Indian national detained by ICE upon release from 43 years of wrongful imprisonment
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers immediately took an Indian national into custody on Oct. 3 after he left a Pennsylvania p...
Indian immigrant fights deportation after arrest over ‘Opium’ perfume
An Indian immigrant detained by ICE after Arkansas police mistook his bottle of “Opium” perfume for narcotics is pleading with federal autho...
US Army vet sues Pennsylvania police over ICE protest arrest
A Filipino American and Mexican American business owner filed a federal lawsuit last week against Pennsylvania police following his arrest d...
Trump admin continues deporting Asian nationals to Africa
The Trump administration sent 10 individuals to Eswatini last week, including three Vietnamese, one Filipino, one Cambodian and five others,...
Asia
Asian students bear brunt of historic US international enrollment drop
The month of August saw international student arrivals from Asia fall by 24%, while overall global entries declined 19%, the steepest record...
Trump suffers another defeat on birthright citizenship
A federal appeals court ruled last Friday that President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship violates the Cons...
South Koreans detail alleged mistreatment during ICE detention
South Korean workers detained in the largest-ever Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) enforcement operation at a Hyundai battery plant in...
California bans masked ICE agents
California lawmakers passed legislation that would prohibit most law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from coveri...
Editorial Staff
Trump admin rushes to mend ties with South Korea after Hyundai raid
The Trump administration is working to repair diplomatic relations with South Korea as the latter prepares to investigate alleged human righ...
New bill grants Rubio power to revoke passports based on speech
A new House bill would grant Secretary of State Marco Rubio unprecedented authority to revoke American citizens’ passports based on allegati...
South Korean workers return home after Georgia Hyundai raid
South Korean workers detained in last week’s immigration raid at a Hyundai manufacturing facility in Georgia returned home Thursday evening,...
Supreme Court OKs racial profiling by ICE
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision Monday lifted restrictions on federal immigration raids in Los Angeles, sparking fears among communities of...
ICE’s largest HSI raid ever detains mostly South Koreans at Georgia Hyundai plant
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested 475 people — most being South Korean nationals — at a Hyundai facility in Georgia ...
Trump admin to limit visa durations for students, journalists
The Trump administration has proposed new regulations that would impose fixed time limits on visas for foreign students, cultural exchange v...
ICE poised to deploy Israeli spyware amid immigration crackdown
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has reactivated a $2 million contract with Israeli spyware company Paragon, giving the ag...
Education
Philosophy student with full scholarship sent back to China despite valid visa
A 22-year-old philosophy student from China with a full scholarship to the University of Houston was reportedly detained for 36 hours and de...
North Texas Indian community on edge after teen stabbed while walking dog
A vicious attack on a 15-year-old Indian American student during what was supposed to be a typical evening dog walk in Frisco, Texas, has ra...
Utah community mobilizes violinist detained by ICE
A violinist in Utah performing with major orchestras has been detained by ICE, sparking an outpouring of support from fellow musicians and c...
Asian American History
Former Japanese American WWII camp is now the country’s largest immigration detention center
The Trump administration has opened the country’s largest immigration detention center at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, a former military ba...
55 million visa holders under review for possible deportation
The Trump administration is expanding its immigration crackdown by reviewing more than 55 million valid U.S. visa holders for potential viol...
Boston
Boston Mayor Wu to ICE: ‘We will not back down’
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has reaffirmed her commitment to protecting the city’s immigrant community after ICE threatened to boost enforcemen...
US to vet immigrants for ‘anti-American’ views
The Trump administration has directed immigration officials to screen those applying to work or live in the U.S. for “anti-American ideologi...
Trump administration revokes over 6,000 student visas
The Trump administration has revoked more than 6,000 student visas for alleged criminal violations and overstays this year, marking a dramat...
Undocumented truck driver faces deportation after illegal U-turn kills 3
An undocumented truck driver from Stockton, California, is facing three counts of vehicular homicide and deportation after an unauthorized U...
Over 100 Southeast Asian immigrants deported in recent operations
The Trump administration conducted deportations targeting Southeast Asian immigrants last week, breaking their families apart as they are se...
Trump admin settles immigration cases with dozens of students
The Trump administration has reportedly reached settlement agreements with at least 85 international students, including Dartmouth Ph.D. stu...
College closures loom as international students avoid US
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is driving international students away at an unprecedented scale, with new enrollment proje...
Community
ICE is now arresting community advocates documenting immigration raids
U.S. citizens and community advocates documenting enforcement operations are being increasingly targeted for arrest by federal immigration a...
How the Trump admin uses courthouse dismissals to fast-track deportations
In recent months, the Trump administration has devised an immigration enforcement strategy in which government attorneys seek case dismissal...
Don’t miss out on the latest news by signing up for Sharkbites.