Tag: illegal immigrants

42 Senate Democrats Support Direct Payments to Illegal Immigrants in ‘Vote-a-Rama’

Dozens of Democrat senators in a Senate session that is still going early Friday voted to show their support for sending stimulus checks to illegal immigrants. Republicans offered a flurry of amendments during the Senate’s budget reconciliation debate as Democrats aim at using the budget process to ram through President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief package….


Florida Bill to End $45 Million College Tuition Subsidy for Illegal Immigrants

A new bill introduced in the Florida legislature on Thursday would repeal a 2014 law that grants subsidized in-state tuition rates for illegal immigrants at the state’s public colleges and universities. Florida currently waives in-state tuition for college students who came to the United States illegally. To be eligible for the waiver, such students must…


Nebraska Gov. Says Illegal Immigrants at Meatpacking Plants Won’t Be Getting COVID-19 Vaccine

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts said at a news conference Monday that illegal immigrants at meatpacking plants won’t be getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Ricketts’s remark came in response to a question if illegal immigrants employed at such facilities would be part of groups of workers getting inoculated under Nebraska’s vaccination program. “Illegal immigrants are not permitted…


ICE Reports Decline in Arrests, Deportations Due to COVID-19

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested and deported nearly one-third fewer illegal immigrants this year due to the ongoing CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, the agency said in its latest report. From October 2019 to September 2020, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officials conducted 103,603 arrests, a 28 percent decline from the…


ICE Says Arrests, Deportations Fall in 2020 Due to COVID-19

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested and deported almost one-third fewer illegal immigrants this year because of the ongoing CCP virus pandemic, the agency said in its latest report. From October 2019 to September 2020, ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officials conducted 103,603 arrests, a 28 percent decline from the previous fiscal…


ICE Arrests 117 Illegal Immigrants Who Failed to Self-Deport

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Monday that, over a 10-day period in December, agents arrested 117 illegal aliens who vowed to leave the country voluntarily but failed to do so. The agency said in a statement that the detained aliens had promised to leave on their own accord rather than face a formal…


French Police Busts Iraqi-Kurdish Gang Smuggling Illegal Immigrants to UK

French police has busted a people-smuggling gang which had been using small boats to take illegal immigrant across the English Channel to the UK. The gang, based in Lille and run by Iraqi Kurds, was detected thanks to intelligence-sharing between authorities in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the UK, police said on Sept. 22. Three…