US President orders changes to asylum claims, case handling
The announcement came as Trump blasted what he described as the United States' "weak, ineffective and dangerous" immigration laws on Twitter.
The announcement came as Trump blasted what he described as the United States' "weak, ineffective and dangerous" immigration laws on Twitter.
Trump's reversal came as the full weight of the shutdown, including the financial cost on struggling employees and the national economy, became ever more apparent to the administration and power brokers in Washington.
“We are totally prepared for a very long shutdown,” was Trump’s facile justification of an ugly denouement, scarcely realising that a long shutdown hurts millions of people who rely on the government for services and pay cheques.
Donald Trump issued the proclamation earlier this month as a matter of what he called national security as a US-bound caravan of Central American migrants made its way through Mexico toward the US border.
Trump said he was not anti-immigrant but wanted immigration to be completely brought under control.
Two Guatemalan mothers were united with their children at a New York City social services centre
While the US has been under the world’s scanner for separating children from parents at the Mexican border, Australia too has a far from enviable record when it comes to asylum-seekers, argues Deborah Zion.
US President Donald Trump pitched a new concept to his supporters for the wall he intends to erect on the…
The Trump administration wants to build a 30-foot-high border wall that looks good from the north side and is difficult…
