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Frontrunner for the Republican nomination for the US Presidency, Donald Trump, has received backing from an unlikely source over US immigration rhetoric banning Muslims from entering the country. Louis Farrakhan, leader of the religious group Nation of Islam said he sympathizes with Trump's proposal to stop Muslims arriving in the US.

Donald Trump (referred to as "the glorious leader" in a neo-Nazi website), the billionaire real estate tycoon and frontrunner for the Republican Presidential candidacy, is on the attack when it comes to US immigration. The Trump campaign has recently turned its attention to Sen. Ted Cruz – a rival in the race for the Republican nomination for President of the United States.

UK Visas and Immigration has published its monthly Tier 2 Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) allocation report for January, which gives an indication of the number that will be available for the month of February. Employers with a Tier 2 visa sponsorship licence will be pleased to see that there will be good availability of COSs in February 2016.

A new study has found that the UK, along with the Netherlands, has the greatest percentage of 'immigrant-origin' MPs. The findings are the result of an international project – 'Pathways to Power' – which studied the political representation of immigrant-origin MPs across Britain, Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.

Donald Trump is in favor of granting amnesty to the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US, according to an opinion piece published on Newsweek online. The frontrunner for the Republican Presidential candidacy has always promised to create a 'deportation force' to extradite every last one of the 11 million undocumented migrants. However, apparently, under his US immigration plan Trump would 'move em back.'

The one week visit of Pope Francis to Mexico, from 12 - 19 February, 2016, has been criticised by Republican Presidential Candidate, Donald Trump. The real estate tycoon was particularly scathing of the Pope's 'lack of understanding' concerning the Mexico-US immigration situation. Trump described the pontiff as a 'very political person who is being exploited by Mexico at the expense of the US.'