How long after an immigrant is convicted of a crime and serves time in prison can federal agents detain him/her to start removal from the country? Days? Weeks? Years? A lawsuit under way in the is attempting to clarify how long is too long.
A blistering report released by Amnesty International this week accuses the United States of blocking asylum-seekers from requesting asylum at the — a policy the watchdog says violates human rights law.
, the daughter of Armenian migrants, is the head of Australia's most populous state. She thinks New South Wales is suffering from rampant population growth, and wants half as many immigrants to be allowed in.
Recent immigrants to Minnesota gave a beloved a much-needed boost of adrenaline — and hot sauce. "I enjoy being in the market," a Nepalese-American beekeeper tells VOA. "Feels like home."
Facing violence and persecution, hundreds of thousands of Muslims from fled in the last year. The country agreed to improve conditions in a June pact with U.N. agencies, in order for refugees to be repatriated. But the U.N. says that's just not possible given the lack of progress.
