3 d. ago Family of teen arrested on his way to volleyball practice asks immigration officials to release him

Family members of an 18-year-old Massachusetts high school student arrested on his way to volleyball practice are pleading with immigration officials to release him

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3 d. ago ‘Not enough’ landlords to cater to students and immigrants, Paragon boss warns

High demand among tenants versus a lack of available homes is pushing up rental prices, Nigel Terrington said.

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5 d. ago Outcry after Boston teen arrested by Ice agents on way to volleyball practice

Ice admits officials were seeking father of Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, 18, but agency chief defends detentionTrump administration officials sparked a massive protest on Sunday in a Boston suburb after immigration agents detained a high school student on his way to volleyball practice while they were seeking his father.The high schooler in question, 18-year-old Marcelo Gomes Da Silva, entered the United States on a student visa, according to a lawsuit filed on his behalf after his arrest. While his student visa status has lapsed, he is eligible for and intends to apply for asylum. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump says he will be negotiating the ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill after Musk criticizes it – live

Trump says the bill ‘needs to get a lot of support’ in Congress, adding ‘we have to get a lot of votes’Musk says Trump tax bill weakens Doge cost-cutting measuresThe vice-president, JD Vance, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Vegas, which will set out the Trump administration’s turbocharged approach to the US crypto industry.If you cast your minds back, it’s the same conference Trump spoke at last year in Nashville calling for America to become a “bitcoin superpower” and the “crypto capital of the planet” under his leadership.At 4:30pm ET, Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr will speak at the very same conference in Vegas. It’s presumably an industry they feel invested in, given they back a major Bitcoin venture themselves, per Reuters. And it comes just a day after a separate family-linked business, the Trump Media & Technology Group, announced its intention to raise $2.5bn to invest in bitcoin, as the Wall Street Journal reports. A...

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1 week ago Marco Rubio announces visa restrictions for foreigners ‘complicit in censoring Americans’ – US politics live

US secretary of state makes announcement that appears to take aim at other countries’ enforcement of social media regulationsMusk says Trump tax bill weakens Doge cost-cutting measuresThe vice-president, JD Vance, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Vegas, which will set out the Trump administration’s turbocharged approach to the US crypto industry.If you cast your minds back, it’s the same conference Trump spoke at last year in Nashville calling for America to become a “bitcoin superpower” and the “crypto capital of the planet” under his leadership.At 4:30pm ET, Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr will speak at the very same conference in Vegas. It’s presumably an industry they feel invested in, given they back a major Bitcoin venture themselves, per Reuters. And it comes just a day after a separate family-linked business, the Trump Media & Technology Group, announced its intention to raise $2.5bn to invest in bitcoin, as the Wall Str...

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1 week ago Musk criticises Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’, saying tax plans undermine Doge measures – US politics live

Tesla billionaire calls legislation a ‘massive spending bill’ that will add to the federal deficitMusk says Trump tax bill weakens Doge cost-cutting measuresThe vice-president, JD Vance, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Vegas, which will set out the Trump administration’s turbocharged approach to the US crypto industry.If you cast your minds back, it’s the same conference Trump spoke at last year in Nashville calling for America to become a “bitcoin superpower” and the “crypto capital of the planet” under his leadership.At 4:30pm ET, Trump’s sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr will speak at the very same conference in Vegas. It’s presumably an industry they feel invested in, given they back a major Bitcoin venture themselves, per Reuters. And it comes just a day after a separate family-linked business, the Trump Media & Technology Group, announced its intention to raise $2.5bn to invest in bitcoin, as the Wall Street Journal reports. And th...

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1 week ago US police officer resigns after wrongfully arresting undocumented teen

Leslie O’Neal of Georgia pulled over college student who then spent more than two weeks in federal immigration jailA Georgia police officer has resigned from his job after erroneously pulling over a teenager, causing her to spend more than two weeks in a federal immigration jail, and leaving her facing deportation.The officer, Leslie O’Neal, was employed at the police department in Dalton, a small city more than an hour north of Atlanta. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Federal judge blocks immigration authorities from revoking international students' legal status

A judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from terminating the legal status of international students nationwide while a court case challenging previous terminations plays out

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2 w. ago UK immigration halves as fewer foreign workers and students issued visas

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) published new estimates on Thursday.

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3 w. ago PETER HITCHENS: Don't believe a word Sir Sheer Squirmer now says

When I was a revolutionary student, I and all my comrades wanted more immigration into this country. This was not because we especially liked immigrants.

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3 w. ago ‘We need to do something’: the company releasing Palestinian films no one else will

As many films struggle to find distribution, Watermelon Pictures has stepped in to help tell stories from Palestine and other marginalized communitiesIn March, The Encampments, a documentary on the pro-Palestinian protest movement on US college campuses, opened at the Angelika Film Center in New York. The nonfiction theatrical marketplace has never been breezy in the US, but this is a particularly difficult time for documentaries, let alone films about hot-button issues considered politically sensitive or, under the new administration, outright dangerous; one of the Encampments’ primary subjects, the Columbia University student-activist Mahmoud Khalil, remains in detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) without charge for any crime. Large-scale distributors, including all of the major streaming services, are increasingly wary of anything deemed controversial, leaving such films as Union, on the Amazon Labor Union, or the Oscar-winning Palestinian-Israeli documentary No...

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3 w. ago Judge says Georgetown student can be released from immigration detention as case proceeds

A federal judge has ordered that a Georgetown scholar from India be released from immigration detention after he was detained in the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign college students

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3 w. ago Visas crackdown: New rules for foreign workers and higher salary thresholds revealed in immigration shake

Restricted permits for low skilled jobs, new rules for family visas, higher wage requirements and degrees needed for foreign workers are among the measures revealed

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4 w. ago Judge not waiting for transfer of Tufts University student detained by ICE to hold bail hearing

A federal judge in Vermont has decided not to wait for the transfer of a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center to schedule a bail hearing, more than six weeks after she was arrested while walking along a street in a Boston suburb

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