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DES MOINES, Iowa (CMC) – Immigration authorities in the United States on Friday arrested Guyana-born educator, Dr Ian Andre Roberts, who rose to becom...
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WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday authorised the deployment of troops in the northwestern US city of Portland, exte...
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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday announced plans for a new nationwide digital ID in a bid to c...
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Trump signs order creating million-dollar gold residency card
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US judge temporarily blocks deportation of Salvadoran man in immigration row
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BALTIMORE, United States (AFP) —A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the deportation to Uganda of a Salvadoran man at the center of a row ove...
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US govt wants migrant targeted in crackdown deported to Uganda: lawyers
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Undocumented Haitians told to leave DR voluntarily
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US court upholds order blocking indiscriminate targeting by immigration patrols
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ICE facing backlash for using viral Jet2 sound in deportation video
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Questions swell in Eswatini over deportation of Jamaican, four others from US
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Tears of joy as Venezuelan migrants return from Salvadoran prison ‘hell’
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US attorneys general defend ‘critical’ immigration services for unaccompanied Caribbean children
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July 21, 2025
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Farm worker dies after US immigration raid in California
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US Supreme Court blocks Florida immigration law
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Mexican boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr arrested by US immigration
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NY mayoral candidate held by immigration cops
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Caribbean immigration advocates welcome ruling barring ICE office at prison
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Protests spread across US despite Trump threats
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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Protests against Donald Trump's harsh immigration policies spread Wednesday across the United States (US) despite a...
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Guyana urges nationals not to overstay visit to the United States
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Trump won’t allow ‘mob rule in America,’ White House says
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Top TikToker Khaby Lame detained by US immigration
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LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — US immigration agents detained and later allowed the "voluntary departure" of the world's most-followed TikToker, K...
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