Immigration news

Earlier this month it was announced that more Venezuelan officials, accused of human rights infringements and corruption are to be denied US visas further increasing tensions between the two Countries.

The US and Venezuela have been on bad terms for some time. About a year ago Venezuela expelled three US diplomats from the American Embassy in Venezuela, leaving it understaffed according to US officials. In retaliation the US did the same to Venezuelan diplomats in the US.

Responding to the new visa restrictions, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused the US of 'attacking Venezuelan sovereignty.'

Immigration reform, rather than harsh enforcement bills. That's the message from the Catholic Bishop of Tuscan, Arizona, Gerald Kicanas.

In his testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security, on behalf of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Committee on Migration, Bishop Kicanas put forward his opposition to three enforcement-only bills.

The number of episodes in a Channel 4 TV documentary series 'Immigration Street' by Love Productions has been scaled back by producers following confrontations between film crews and residents.

The programme, filmed in Derby Road, Southampton was initially scheduled to be a six-part series, but Channel 4 will now televise a one-hour episode only.

The BBC's support for immigration, and bias across the Civil Service, is preventing the Government from tightening Britain's borders, claims anti-immigration Migration Watch UK.

A campaigner for tougher immigration controls, Migration Watch UK says that the broadcaster is guilty of 'strong bias' and cowardice for failing to address issues raised by immigration policy. Migration Watch says that immigration has affected low income earners and has led to rising population numbers.

'Celebrate, don't vilify' immigrants says the Movement Against Xenophobia (MAX) a group started by the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI). MAX intends to launch a poster campaign that will portray immigrants and their contribution to Britain in a positive light.

The Conservative and Labour parties claim that they will if elected further reduce the level of immigration into the UK. The MAX group wishes to campaign against this by having a major poster campaign focused on individual immigrants and the contribution they make to Britain.

From 2009 to 2014, the US government granted 5.46 million work permits to those on non- immigrant visas or those illegally in the US according to a new report published by a conservative think-tank "The Center for Immigration Studies" (CIS). Many of these work permits were granted to people who entered on F-1 student visas and as visitors on B-1/B2 visas.

The Southern Poverty Law Centre well known for bringing legal proceedings against "hate groups" had the following to say about CIS: