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The Migration Advisory Committee has recommended against a full replacement of EU free movement to a full points-based immigration system post-Brexit and said that the salary cap should be lowered by £4,000 — moves that Migration Watch UK warned would result in the UK losing control of immigration.

Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a man wanted in Georgia on charges for statutory rape and child molestation after he illegally crossed the border from Mexico into Texas.

A security guard fired three warning shots when several dozen migrants tried to enter Hungary Tuesday, Hungarian police said.

Chairwoman of the Ohio Republican Party, Jane Timken, is defending Republican governors like Ohio’s Mike DeWine for asking the federal government to continue resettling refugees in their states.

A Mexican illegal alien who crossed the United States-Mexico border has been arrested and charged with attempting to murder a Denver, Colorado judge.

Former Rep. Jim Renacci (R-OH) says Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine should be “compassionate for Ohioans first” before importing more refugees to his state, as he has decided to do, at the expense of taxpayers. 

The Supreme Court has removed a judge’s temporary block on the White House’s “public charge” immigration rule, which steers the awarding of American green cards to better-educated, younger, and healthier migrants.

Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents disrupted a human smuggling attempt when they found 63 migrants locked in a tractor-trailer at an immigration checkpoint on Interstate 35.

Central American states have dramatically stepped up their efforts to block the migrants heading to the United States, Ken Cuccinelli, acting deputy head of Homeland Security, said at a press conference on January 24.

Think Tank: Boris Plan to Scrap £30k Salary Requirement Will See Migration ‘Spin Out of Control’

An illegal alien enrolled in former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program received nearly $19,000 in United States taxpayer money after driving recklessly in the sanctuary state of California. 

A New York City, New York councilman says it is “un-American” not to allow non-citizens to vote in elections.

Laredo Sector Border Patrol agents found a missing migrant child during a raid on a human smuggling stash house near the Texas border with Mexico. The agents worked with Mexican authorities to confirm the identity of the juvenile and return her to her mother in Mexico.

Swedish bank Handelsbanken says Sweden’s economy has signs of weak growth and the unemployment rate has increased compared to other European Union member-states.

The Swedish government has said it wants to greatly expand the number of police across the country but a recent report has suggested hundreds of recruitment places remain unfilled.

TORONTO (AP) – A Toronto hospital said Saturday it has a confirmed case of the deadly virus from China, Canada’s first.

A Syrian granted refugee status was among the seven individuals arrested in the French city of Brest on allegations the group was plotting Islamist terror attacks.

A French parliamentary report has suggested that mass migration into France does not actually help boost the economy, as frequently claimed, but is only net neutral.

French and Dutch authorities have arrested 23 people in connection with a people-smuggling network that is said to have helped around 10,000 Kurds illegally enter the UK.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the United States was “formed” by immigrants, not citizens, and thus Americans must not think of the immigration issue “narrowly.” 

The Spanish supreme court has granted two women, the widows of a Moroccan polygamist, the rights to widows’ pensions in a landmark ruling, claiming that polygamy does not prevent pension allocation.

An illegal alien accused of murdering 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts has successfully gotten his trial temporarily delayed by claiming his “constitutional rights” were violated.

A group of non-citizens and city councilmembers rallied together outside City Hall to demand voting rights in local elections for all eligible legal immigrants in New York City, New York.

President Donald Trump’s curbs against “birth tourism” are discriminatory and dangerous, say pro-migration progressives. 

A newly formed Swedish political party has proposed making all Muslims in Sweden a “special minority”, claiming that Muslims suffer daily from violence and verbal attacks.

A 22-year-old Swede with a Tunisian background has been arrested in connection with the murder of Swedish-Albanian record producer Flamur ‘Alex’ Begiri in London on Christmas Eve.

Guatemala’s new government says it will preserve an asylum deal with the United States which allows U.S. border agencies to return migrants who pass through the Latin American country on their way to the United States.

American authorities identified and apprehended three Syrian nationals accused of belonging to al-Qaeda in Dallas from Colombia, the Colombian news agency RCN reported Thursday, publishing images of the three individuals’ fake passports.

President Trump is the first president in United States history to take action on the issue of “birth tourism,” where visiting pregnant foreign nationals travel to the country to secure their children birthright American citizenship, expert Jessica Vaughan says. 

Up to one million non-citizens living in New York City may obtain voting rights for local elections if a plan by Democrat city councilmembers is approved.

San Diego Sector Border Patrol officials say an alleged human smuggler assaulted two agents following a vehicle pursuit. Agents found four Mexican nationals who were allegedly smuggled by the driver — a U.S. citizen.

President Trump is seeking to halt the flow of “birth tourism,” the practice of foreign visitors arriving in the United States only to secure their U.S.-born children birthright American citizenship, by issuing a new regulation for State Department officials. 

The Department of Homeland Security has released data showing sharp drops in legal migration from several unstable countries during 2018.

Italian pollster Alessandra Ghisleri has suggested that the government putting populist Senator Matteo Salvini on trial over a migrant incident last year could actually boost his election results and support.

Reported plans that the prime minister is to lift the £30,000 salary cap for immigrants would “unlock the gate to an unlimited inflow of migrants from all over the world” unless the government imposes a sensible immigration cap, a think tank has warned.

A faction of New York City Council members are aiming to provide citywide voting rights to hundreds of thousands, and potentially millions, of non-citizens living in the five boroughs.