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A stampede in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, that killed at least 12 women and injured many more on Wednesday was caused by desperation to get hold of Pakistani visas, local officials confirmed.

The U.S. State Department announced on Wednesday it has revoked over 1,000 visas for Chinese nationals due to national security concerns.

A majority of undecided voters say they see immigration as a labor issue, supporting reductions to legal immigration in order to protect the United States labor market from cheap, foreign competition, a survey finds.

The Philippines stopped issuing visas to foreigners, banning all nationalities from entering the country, this week in an effort to stop the spread of the Chinese coronavirus throughout the island nation.

Former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, is touting a new visa program to flood small American towns with legal immigrants to grow the regions’ populations — a boon to corporate investors, housing developers, and big business.

The allotment of green cards to foreign nationals arriving from countries listed on President Trump’s travel ban have continued almost unchanged, dropping by less than five percent, since 2017. 

More than 260,000 foreign nationals have been legally admitted to the United States from all 13 travel ban countries between 2016 and 2018.

The majority of likely swing voters say they want to end the process known as “chain migration,” wherein newly naturalized citizens can bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the United States, a new poll finds.

Prosecutors announced on Thursday that police have detained ten people during the investigation of a visa scam that brought thousands of Chinese into Taiwan, some of whom may have been Chinese espionage assets.

An open borders lobbying group, partially funded by billionaire George Soros, says “we need to abolish” the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to protect foreign nationals accused of visa fraud. 

A Korean-born immigration lawyer faces years in jail for allegedly selling green cards and citizenship rights to more than 125 Koreans.

President Trump expanded the Visa Waiver Program (VWP), adding Poland to the list of 38 counties from which nationals can freely travel to the United States without a visa, despite warnings from investigators who reviewed failures in the immigration system after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. 

President Donald Trump did not endorse Utah Sen. Mike Lee’s green-cards-for-India bill when he spoke at the Sunday rally in Texas attended by 50,000 Indian supporters of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Acting Commissioner of Customs and Border Protection Mark Morgan said Bahamians will be allowed into the U.S. without travel documents.

Pete Buttigieg says he will aid families in rural America by importing more migrants — even though mass-migration policies are already pulling wealth and young Americans from rural areas into major cities.

Mainland China suspended its visa program for tourist visits to Taiwan on Thursday, ostensibly because relations across the Taiwan Strait have deteriorated. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen denounced the move as an effort to apply economic pressure against the island ahead of its presidential election in January.

Hungarian Cabinet spokesman Zoltán Kovács has said pro-migrant proposals agreed by the UN and EU show they “are serious about legalising illegal migration, contrary to the will of the people.”

Around 2,000 migrants are expected to leave Italy per month as humanitarian residency permits expire, following the passage of the migration and security decree drafted by populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.

The communist regime running Cuba protested on Thursday to allegedly having its diplomats blocked from receiving visas to work at the Cuban embassy in Washington or the United Nations. The Trump administration limited the number of Cuban agents in the U.S. following the sudden unexplained illness of American diplomats in Havana.

Kansas Secretary of State and gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach — who worked in the Justice Department investigating the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — says three of the four hijacked planes “would have been stopped” if U.S. immigration laws had been properly and effectively enforced. 

Tens of thousands more foreign students will be allowed into the UK without having to prove they have the right qualifications or can even speak English, as the new Home Secretary continues to relax visa rules.

Only 14 percent of registered voters strongly oppose President Donald Trump’s border reforms, despite the establishment media’s depiction of the reforms as a “Muslim travel ban.”

Donald Trump’s deputies are planning to shrink the H-1B program, likely raising salaries for a broad swath of young Americans who have earned degrees in medicine, business, and technology, according to a document from the Department of Homeland Security.

Senior administration officials quashed a letter from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) staff recommending the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer negotiate to end a little-known visa program that permits tens of thousands of Canadian and Mexican white-collar workers to work in America.

American and Turkish diplomats scramble to restore non-immigrant visa services in both nations, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken an aggressive approach. He asserted Thursday that Turkey is “not a tribal state” and told the United States, “We do not need you.”

President Donald Trump has identified the foreign governments which have failed to provide “baseline” identification about their citizens who want visas to visit the United States.

Multinational automaker corporations like Tesla, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Volkswagen used illegal foreign workers to build their plants in the United States, according to a recently unsealed lawsuit.

German car giant Mercedes-Benz dropped the importation of foreign workers to build their Vance, Alabama-based auto plant following a report on how Americans are often left behind by multinational corporations.

Foreign workers are being imported to the United States to build auto plants, a recent investigation finds.

Agriculture companies in California are being forced to develop and deploy labor-saving machinery and techniques because reduced illegal immigration is allowing American farmworkers raise their poverty-level wages, according to Los Angeles Times.

The U.S. State Department under President Trump has introduced stricter vetting procedures for all visa seekers.

The U.S. State Department rejected four of every five requests from Cuban nationals for a tourism or business visa in the 2016 fiscal year, a year in which incidents of violent communist oppression skyrocketed following President Barack Obama’s friendly visit to dictator Raúl Castro in March.

Officials at the Department of State are tightening oversight of visa approvals in many foreign countries, including many Islamic countries, even as pro-immigration groups and allied judges try to block the president’s new immigration policies.

During a discussion of President Trump’s travel ban during an interview broadcast on Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, Senate Minority Leader Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) stated, “every country ought to be vetted. I think they did a

Venezuelans fleeing their country’s crashing, socialist economy are leading in requests to come to the U.S. as asylum seekers, according to new data.

“A review of information compiled by a Senate committee in 2016 reveals that 72 individuals from the seven countries covered in President Trump’s vetting executive order have been convicted in terror cases since the 9/11 attacks,” according to a report issued by the Center for Immigration Studies on Saturday.