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There are more than 500,000 pending immigration court cases for illegal aliens which will decide whether or not they are eligible to remain in the U.S., according to new data released.

BERLIN (AFP) – Germany will speed up expulsions of rejected asylum seekers under measures agreed by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet Wednesday, as controversy raged over sending people back to strife-torn Afghanistan.

Leaked memos from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) discuss methods to more effectively deport illegal aliens through a streamlined process.

A series of fake news hoaxes over social media, which falsely suggested authorities had set up immigration checkpoints aimed at deporting illegal aliens, caused panic this weekend across California.

The Tacoma Public School Superintendent is now demanding “safe zones” for migrant students after President Donald Trump’s immigration executive orders were signed earlier last week.

With the Clintons and the Obamas pushed off liberalism’s pedestal, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. tried to pick up the Democratic mantle on Friday by joining the United Farm Workers’ (UFW) union in a Fresno protest against President Donald Trump’s promise to deport criminal illegal aliens.

Migrants granted leave to remain in Switzerland on the basis that they risk death in their homelands are using welfare money to fund holidays back home, the Basler Zeitung reports. The Swiss newspaper notes that thousands of migrants each year

ROME (AP) — Italy has expelled a Tunisian man accused of religious extremism and befriending a jailed would-be foreign fighter, the country’s latest effort to crack down on the radicalization of young Muslims by getting rid of them. The Interior

The Austrian Court of Auditors has slammed the government’s deportation policy and released figures that show almost 40,000 migrants went into hiding to avoid deportation from 2010 to 2014.

President-Elect Donald Trump’s alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, has enacted a “sanctuary campus” policy which bans federal immigration officials from the school’s grounds and protects illegal immigrants from deportation.

After a massive riot which saw hundreds of Afghans fight with police and destroy parts of Bulgaria’s largest asylum camp, authorities have chosen to deport 250 migrants who took part.

Students at Stanford University, an elite private institution in Silicon Valley that costs $47,940 per year to attend, marched Tuesday to demand that the lush Palo Alto campus be turned into a “sanctuary campus” to shelter illegal aliens facing deportation under President Donald Trump.

The number of illegal immigrants from Haiti entering the United States increased more than 600 percent during FY2016. The dramatic increase seems to account for a decision last month by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to resume removals (deportations) of Haitian immigrants.

Around 40 illegal migrants who were due for deportation, mainly from Algeria, have held a rowdy protest in Spain, smashing furniture before climbing onto the roof of their accommodation.

(REUTERS) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that Germany needed to make a national effort to deport migrants who do not have the right to stay in the country.

“We made them citizens and they were getting ready for deportations,” Donald Trump tells a rally in North Carolina. “Can’t have it.”

Passengers and holiday-makers have been left terrified after an African migrant relentlessly shouted “Allahu Akbar” and “today we will die” as he was being deported from on a commercial flight.

Libyan authorities have warned Italy of the presence of a Milan-based Islamic State cell, after recovering internal documents from an ISIS headquarters in the Libyan city of Sirte last week.

Despite the fact North African migrants are almost never granted asylum in Germany, the country managed to deport just 166 citizens of the Maghreb states in the first half of this year.

The Obama administration has promoted the use of deportations to resolve a growing refugee crisis in Colombia, Ecuador, and Central America, as more and more Cubans flee the human rights violations and deplorable economic conditions of their native land, emboldened by Obama’s “normalization” process with Cuba.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it has taken into custody more than 130 criminal aliens in and around Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. this month. ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers made the arrests during separate operations targeting foreign

According to a Center for Immigration Studies review of recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement data this fiscal year through the third week of June, ICE has made 168,781 deportations, down from the same point in 2015. ICE is on pace to hit 230,000 deportations by the end of the fiscal year, the lowest number of deportations since 2006.

The steady decline of illegal immigrants deported after overstaying a visa since President Barack Obama took office is tantamount to amnesty, according to Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX).

While the budget for deportations has grown substantially over the past four years, the number of actual removals has plummeted.

Four out of ten deportations of illegal immigrants and foreign criminals from the UK were cancelled in 2014-15, largely because there were not enough staff available to take them to the airport. Almost 34,000 airline tickets had to be cancelled in one

The Obama administration formally disclosed Tuesday that it deported the fewest immigrants since 2006.

The Obama administration removed the lowest number of immigrants from U.S. since the beginning of his presidency in fiscal year 2015, according to year-end data released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Of the 235,413 removals conduced in FY 2015, ICE removed 165,935 individuals apprehended at the border and 63,539 removals were of immigrants convicted of a crime.

Border State Sheriffs are responding to a report that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is set to engage in the largest one-time release of federal prisoners. 6,000 inmates will receive early release, 2,000 of which are “foreign citizens” who officials claim “will be quickly deported.” The release is set to occur between October 30th and November 2nd.

President Barack Obama has further reduced the annual deportations of migrants living illegally in the United States down to less than 1 percent of the migrant population.

The Venezuelan government has agreed to allow the nearly 2,000 Colombians violently expelled from the Venezuelan border to return to the country. It is not yet certain whether their property will be returned to them or if any of the victims of this mass deportation will want to return.

The Venezuelan government has published a full-page ad in the New York Times this week arguing that the mass, arbitrary deportation of Colombians from its border territories was necessary for national security interests.

Following multiple reports of Venezuelan soldiers allegedly sexually abusing underaged Colombian girls while deporting them from the country, a young man who was forced to leave his home on the border of both countries claims a group of soldiers molested him after forcefully tearing him away from his family.

Of the tens of thousands illegal immigrant family units that streamed across the U.S.-Mexico border last year and were released into the U.S., just a fraction have been removed, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data.

According to data collected by Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) in Fiscal Year 2009, 57,476 immigrants ICE sought to remove were allowed to stay. TRAC projects that by the end of FY 2015 the number of non-citizens allowed to stay despite ICE pushing for removal will be 100,012.

An interactive map from the Center for Immigration Studies details the locations and concentrations of immigrants removed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement from October 2008 through February 2015 as part of the Secure Communities program.

Deportations of illegal immigrants from the U.S. are on track to hit the lowest level in a decade under the Obama administration, according to internal figures obtained by the Associated Press.