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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
TopicImmigrants

Topic: immigrants

Rishi Sunak’s contested immigration plan to deport asylum seekers is set to become law

The bill will prevent most people from claiming asylum in Britain without permission and will deport them either to their country of origin or a so-called safe country like Rwanda.

Five reasons that explain Rishi Sunak’s stand on immigrants

Rishi Sunak’s ancestors first migrated to Kenya and then settled in Britain. Like him, Suella Braverman and Priti Patel too are the children of twice migrants.

For decades, Leicester built communal walls. Waves of immigrants made it more toxic

East Ham and Waltham Forest are Pakistani Punjabi, Luton is Kashmiri Muslim, Southall is Punjabi Sikh, and Tower Hamlet is Bangladeshi. Each walled off their neighbourhoods to other immigrants.

Singapore defends employing workers from India & other countries as opposition seeks limits

Free trade agreements are a keystone for the economy and responsible for creating hundreds of thousands of jobs, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said in an address in parliament Tuesday.

US lawmakers urge Biden administration to prevent deportation of ‘documented dreamers’

Congresswoman Deborah Ross and Indian American Congressman Dr Ami Bera led the group of 36 lawmakers in sending a letter to the Department of Homeland Security to protect 'documented dreamers', many of whom are Indians.

What is DACA? Obama policy for illegal immigrants helped Indians, now Kamala Harris pushes it

VP Kamala Harris has called upon Congress to create a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA program that was introduced 9 yrs ago.

Kamala Harris has first major task laid out for her: solving migrant influx on border

Harris will have two goals in her new role — develop strategies to stop flow of migrants and establish better relationships with Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

Women are taking lead in vaccine development. Therein lies a lesson

The unprecedented impact of women in the field of vaccine development means that there are other endeavours that would greatly benefit from more involvement by women.

Biden administration likely to provide US citizenship to over 5 lakh Indians

A policy document issued by the Biden campaign says his administration will support family-based immigration and preserve family unification as a core principle, which includes reducing the family visa backlog.

48% of foreign students in US in 2019 were Indian & Chinese, says report

According to a report by the Student and Exchange Visitor Programme, 75 per cent of all nonimmigrant students in the US are from Asia.

On Camera

Road building is a money-making racket in India. And we have a very short memory

We get very angry when rain disrupts our lives and brings our cities to a halt, but by the time the elections come around, we have forgotten how angry we were.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.