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The Migrants’ Rights Network and over 50 other “charities” have penned an open letter demanding state support and accommodation for between 800,000 and 1.2 million illegal migrants through the coronavirus pandemic.

The House coronavirus spending bill allows roughly 500,000 foreign college graduate visa-workers from China, India, and elsewhere to stay in their jobs, regardless of Americans’ job losses, according to a lobby group for H-1B workers.

The British government is still allowing flights to arrive at the nation’s airports from the countries where coronavirus infection is most widespread.

Just as the coronavirus epidemic went nationwide, 1,200 newly graduated American doctors were left on the sidelines because they were denied a place in the limited number of medical residencies for 2020. 

A federal judge rejected an effort to force ICE to release migrants in a detention center in Washington state because of coronavirus.

President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security quietly adopted a second tactic to speed the inflow of foreign H-1B workers into U.S. jobs — even though hundreds of thousands of American graduates are expected to lose their jobs in the next few weeks.

While the Turkish government has closed its border to Greece due to the Coronavirus, migrants are still attempting to storm the border using improvised ladders.

On Friday, President Trump took a crucial step in protecting American citizens during the coronavirus pandemic.  He completed the closure of the land ports of entry into the United States to nonessential traffic. In other words, he closed the front door.

Fox News’s Tucker Carlson says the “corrupt” EB-5 visa program is selling American citizenship to rich Chinese nationals. 

Nearly a month after opening the gates to Europe, the Turkish government has closed the border due to the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.

President Trump’s administration is halting all non-essential travel at the United States’ southern border with Mexico and northern border with Canada beginning Saturday, March 21. 

A proposed expansion of the EB-5 green-card program should not be included in the coronavirus recovery bill, Sen. Lindsey Graham told Fox News Thursday evening.

A supposed plan by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) would reward more of China’s elite to essentially buy American citizenship for themselves and their families with the promise of investing in U.S. cities.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has promised to give additional cash to Turkey for migrants after the country opened the gates to Greece late last month.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is trying to accelerate the delivery of H-1B foreign workers to U.S. and Indian companies — despite the crashing economy and abundant evidence that many American graduates are facing discrimination and exclusion from software jobs.

Sen. Lindsey Graham is using the coronavirus recovery bills to dramatically expand the award of EB-5 green cards to wealthy Chinese if they lend money to U.S. real estate investors and other companies, according to several activists and Politico magazine.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued five migrants from the Rio Grande as they attempted to illegally cross from Mexico into Texas.

The nation’s immigration enforcement agency is reducing its arrests of illegal migrants amid growing fears of a coronavirus outbreak in federal detention centers.

Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham says the United States should halt all immigration during the coronavirus crisis.

The State Department is suspending refugee resettlement, at least temporarily, to the United States amid the coronavirus crisis.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was widely criticized on social media on Tuesday after she reacted to a pro-family post by President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka.

The federal government is using emergency laws to buy more bedside breathing ventilators to treat the rising inflow of victims from China’s Wuhan virus.

Nearly 6.3 million noncitizens were granted admission to the United States in the last two and a half months by air, land, and sea at ports of entry along the northern border before Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued a national lockdown.

President Trump confirmed on Wednesday that migrants arriving at the United States-Mexico border will be turned back to Mexico to stave off additional coronavirus outbreaks.

A leaked diplomatic letter from the Greek govt has claimed Turkey is looking to use the coronavirus outbreak as cover for a major provocation.

Chinese media outlets import numerous journalists into the United States via the H-1B program, usually at very low salaries.

The president of the European Commission admitted that leaders in the EU “underestimated” the scale of the coronavirus outbreak, as the bloc has closed its external borders to foreign travellers.

Naturalized U.S. citizen Edward Peng Xuehua was sentenced to 48 months in prison and fined $30,000 Tuesday after being convicted of passing sensitive U.S. information to China on behalf of Beijing’s Ministry of State Security (MSS).

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued an injured 15-year-old girl who Mexican cartel-connected human smugglers abandoned in the middle of the Rio Grande.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) – The main Serbian hospital treating patients infected with coronavirus looks like an abandoned building, but it isn´t. With its rundown facade, peeling walls and rooms crammed with metal beds, the downtown Belgrade clinic for infectious diseases

Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents and an Air and Marine Operations aircrew teamed up to rescue a migrant who became lost after being abandoned by human smugglers without food or water.

The French PM warned that if the UK doesn’t enact stricter coronavirus measures, Britons will be banned from travelling to the country.

Turkey has been accused of “Fanning the flames of Europe’s coronavirus crisis” by crowding migrants onto its frontier with Greece.

Migrant reception centres on several Greek islands have been put under a two-week lockdown this week in order to mitigate the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.

President Donald Trump has ordered border agencies to quickly return all migrants from Mexico, regardless of routine asylum laws, according to the New York Times. 

The U.S. association of pork suppliers is asking for more foreign visa workers despite the huge loss of American jobs amid the coronavirus epidemic.