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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...
Carl Samson
Government
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...
Editorial Staff
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...
Asian American History
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...
Ryan General
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...
Civil Rights
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...
Education
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...
Community
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
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...
Asia
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...
Crime
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...
Bryan Ke
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...
Trump reveals anti-immigrant plan based on law used to incarcerate Japanese Americans in WWII
Donald Trump has laid out a new immigration plan invoking a centuries-old law that led to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during Wor...
New poll shows how AAPI adults view legal, illegal immigration
A new poll shows that 8 in 10 Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AAPI) adults believe legal immigration significantly boo...
Why most Asian immigrants move to the US: survey
Most Asian immigrants come to the U.S. to be with family, according to a survey recently published by the Pew Research Center. While ethnic ...
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