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Romanian immigrant who once drove for Trump is still in ICE custody a year later

Zoltan Tamas (pictured), an immigrant from Romania who once drove for President Donald Trump is still being detained by ICE a year after he was given a deportation reprieve.




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How high immigration levels have pushed wages growth to a record low

Australian workers are failing to get a decent pay rise, whether they work in the public service or on a construction site. CommSec said high population growth was keeping a lid on wages.




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Farmers warn food prices could rise under new plans to keep low-skilled migrants out of the UK

Leaders in agriculture, hospitality and the care system lashed out at the Home Secretary after she dismissed fears over staff shortages caused by the proposed points-based system.




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At last! This is what we voted for: DAVID GOODHART on Priti Patel's post-Brexit immigration system

DAVID GOODHART: The post-Brexit shake-up to Britain's immigration system, unveiled today by Priti Patel, should be welcomed on the grounds of politics, economics - and general fairness.




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Priti Patel calls rapper Dave's claim at Brit awards that Boris Johnson is racist 'utter nonsense' 

Priti Patel blasted rapper Dave's incendiary claims that Boris Johnson is a 'real racist' this morning on Sky News and BBC Breakfast, calling them 'utter nonsense' and 'highly inappropriate'.




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Priti Patel introduces plans for hardline points immigration policy

The 47-year-old, who was born in London to Ugandan Asian parents of Gujarati descent, admitted they would not have made the cut were the system in place in the 1960s when they arrived.




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ANDREW GREEN: Yes, he's listened. But if Boris isn't careful reforms could lead to MORE immigration

ANDREW GREEN: Nearly 20 years ago, I set up the think tank Migration Watch UK to give a voice to many of us who were concerned, not about immigration itself, but about the sheer scale of it




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Jobs bonanza for Australians wanting work in UK as new immigration laws will favour English speakers

New post-Brexit immigration laws in the UK will favour skilled English-speaking migrant workers over cheap unskilled labour from within the European Union.




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Protesters slam Joe Biden's record on immigration as they interrupt the Democratic debate

Protesters from RAICES Action, a prominent immigrant rights group, interrupted Biden's closing remarks near the end of Wednesday's two-hour televised debate at the Paris Theater in Las Vegas




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Unarmed Mexican man, 26, shot by an ICE agent while visiting his mom is now suing the officer

Erick Diaz Cruz, left and right in hospital, was shot on February 6 by an agent who was part of a team trying to arrest his mother's boyfriend. He had been visiting NYC on a vacation. Scene inset.




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Home Office was branded 'institutionally racist' in report into Windrush deportation policy

The review into the Government's policy towards migrants has seen the claim edited out of the final draft. It was commissioned in 2018 after the Windrush scandal.




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Bali chaos as thousands of Australian tourists are left stranded at Denpasar airport

The system crashed on Friday about 12pm, causing hours of delays for travellers venturing in and out of the holiday hotspot.




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Los Zetas hitmen their life sentences OVERTURNED due to legal technicality

Jose Emanuel Garcia Sota, aka 'Zafado,' and Jesus Ivan Quezada Pina, aka 'Loco,' were convicted three years ago in the February 2011 murder of ICE agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico.




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Undocumented Mexican man, 34, 'kills himself' while in ICE custody at jail in Ohio

David Hernández Colula, an undocumented male immigrant from Mexico, died Thursday by apparent suicide at a jail in Ohio, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday.




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University women's team 'kicked Odion Ighalo off their training pitch'

Odion Ighalo angered a student football team while he was participating in a solo training session over the winter break, according to The Sun. 




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BBC Question Time row after guest who asked about immigration revealed as Tommy Robinson supporter

The BBC faces another vetting row after the woman who asked the panel about immigration was named online as Sherri Peach, allegedly a supporter of Tommy Robinson and Britain First.




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Priti Patel is hit by new 'bullying' claims

Priti Patel has been hit with new 'bullying' claims as it emerges immigration boss Mark Thomson was prompted to resign from his role following 'uncomfortable' demands by the Home Secretary.




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Boris's border blueprint: Immigration revolution will end cheap foreign labour

Low-skilled immigration will be made virtually impossible under a points-based system as free movement rights are consigned to history.




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Illegal immigrants at high schools arrested for raping girls in US

Jonathan Coreas-Salamanca, 20, and Ivan Reyes Lopez, 19, were arrested earlier this month for allegedly raping two different 11-year-old girls in Montgomery County, Maryland.




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Mexican father-of-four locks himself inside his car for three hours before ICE officers left

Octavio Martínez, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, locked himself in his vehicle for three hours and refused to honor ICE's request to turn himself in outside his California home.




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Tory Caroline Nokes slams Boris Johnson over past 'ill-judged' remarks

A leading Tory MP has accused Boris Johnson of making 'really ill-judged' comments in the past and told him to 'think very carefully' about the impact his words have on women and ethnic minorities.




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Pregnant mom is detained by ICE agents just moments after dropping her daughter off at pre-school 

Verónica Carmen Lara-Márquez, who is three months pregnant, was briefly detained by ICE last week in Philadelphia moments after leaving her four-year-old daughter at a school.




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Trump keeps up partisan attacks on 'Do Nothing Democrats' over coronavirus

President Trump defended his response to the coronavirus outbreak and attacked 'Do Nothing Democrats, who he said were 'wasting time' on the 'Immigration Hoax.'




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ICE gives pregnant mom detained near daughter's school 45 days to self-deport to El Salvador

Verónica Carmen Lara-Márquez, who has been in the U.S. since 2011, was given 45 days to self-deport to El Salvador after being detained by federal agents outside of her daughter's school.




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How Sir Philip Rutnam's name has become a byword for bungled advice

Critics of Boris Johnson's Government and his sweeping reforms to the troubled immigration system will have a new hero following Sir Philip Rutnam's incendiary walkout.




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One in three Australians think immigration is too high while majority are worried about the economy

Almost a third of Australians who took part in a survey expressed concern about immigration. The study commissioned by Real Insurance showed overcrowding as an issue.




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DAN HODGES: Why does the Left hate Priti Patel so much?

Let's imagine for a second if a senior member of Vote Leave had tweeted about barring a senior black or Asian Labour politician from the country, writes DAN HODGES.




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Rebel Wilson EXC: Star is left horrified as her ex Mickey Gooch is restrained in elaborate prank

The Pitch Perfect star, 39, was at the Mammoth Film Festival for the weekend to support Mickey and his latest film Deported, and the incident occurred at a celebrity bowling tournament.




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More than 20 immigration detainees claim to be indigenous Australians

The government is now examining the claims of 23 immigration detainees who all claim to be from indigenous backgrounds - with some having no physical proof.




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Blind man flunks his citizenship test because they tried to make him read a sentence

Lucio Delgado, from Mexico, took to Facebook last week to share that a letter he received informed him that he 'failed to successfully pass the reading test.'




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ICE arrests illegal immigrant after NYPD releases him after charging him with child rape 

Miguel Federico Ajqui-Ajtzalam was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday after originally being arrested in New York last Thursday. NYPD released him despite ICE detainer.




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New York ICE officials accused of rigging algorithms to detain immigrants in detention centers 

The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against ICE claiming New York officers rigged algorithms to always recommend people arrested for immigration violations be detained.




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Jacob Rees-Mogg wades into row over Oxford 'no platforming' of Amber Rudd

Amber Rudd was due to speak at the UN Women Oxford event last night - but was told when she arrived that the event to mark International Women's Day had been cancelled.




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Sajid Javid is accused of stoking the bullying storm engulfing Priti Patel

The allies claim Sir Philip's live statement to the BBC - in which he said he was planning to take her and the department to court for constructive dismissal - had 'Javid's fingerprints all over it'.




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Video shows ICE agents pin illegal immigrant to the ground after using pepper spray on her

Maria De Los Angel Sanz Pimentel, a Dominican woman who is allegedly in the United States without a work visa, was taken into custody by several ICE agents after a raid in Brooklyn on March 1.




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CBP arrests Mexican man smuggling 5.3 pounds of fentanyl, enough to kill at least 1.2 million people

CBP agents intercepted a Mexican national with 41.4 pounds of cocaine and 5.3 pounds of fentanyl in California. The confiscated fentanyl was enough to kill 1.2 million people.




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Brazlian man, 26, blamed in crash that killed four family members is cited for careless driving

Lucas Dos Reis Laurindo, a 26-year-old Brazilian national, was given a ticket for the fatal crash that left four family members dead near Disney World in Florida and was arrested trying to leave the U.S.




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Twerking instructor and Instagram influencer says she was raped by immigration officials

Geraldine Rodriguez (pictured), better known as twerk instructor 'Geri Hoops', claims she was flying out of Luis Munoz Marin International Airport when the incident took place last month.




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Former British Army sergeant is stuck in Fiji and being prevented from returning to his wife

Ilaitia Cokanasiga, 48, from Fiji, said he felt 'immense pride' to have served with the UK armed forces but now feels 'betrayed' after he was let down by the government.




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Rishi Sunak uses Budget to hike cost for migrants to use the NHS

Rishi Sunak today announced he is hiking the amount it costs migrants to use the NHS as the government's spending watchdog predicted net migration could fall to 129,000.




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Leaving the EU will leave Britain with an extra £40billion, Budget documents reveal 

The official Treasury 'Red Book' predicts that cash saved from EU contributions will total £42.3billion over the next five years.




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The killer in Manila: Philippine capital city is locked down to stop coronavirus spread 

President Rodrigo Duterte announced strict immigration curbs and a halt on domestic land, sea and air travel to and from Manila to arrest the spread of coronavirus on Thursday.




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ICE halts all family visits to immigration detention facilities

ICE officials said there were no detainees who had confirmed cases of coronavirus, and that canceling visitation was precautionary to 'further safeguard those in our care.'




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Massive queues of people wait to enter China to stay safe during coronavirus pandemic 

New pictures circulating on social media purport to show massive queues of travellers waiting to pass a border checkpoint to enter mainland China after the centre of the outbreak moved to Europe.




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Coronavirus UK: Migrants in face masks cross Channel in dinghy

Migrants wearing facemasks were pictured arriving at Dover after crossing the English Channel in a large rubber dingy today.




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ICE STOP most undocumented immigrant arrests due to coronavirus

Immigration officials said it will delay the majority of its arrests of illegal immigrants due to the coronavirus pandemic except for those who pose a risk or have committed serious criminal acts.




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Passenger fury as Heathrow Airport fails to insist on social distancing in border control queues

Packed like sardines as they wait to clear immigration and collect their luggage, there was disturbingly little evidence of social distancing to help fight coronavirus at Heathrow Airport today.




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Coronavirus scare hits ICE facility in New Jersey jail as first detainee tests positive

A 37-year-old Mexican immigrant being held at the Bergen County Jail, which houses dozens of other undocumented migrants.




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Coronavirus infected tourist is accused of holidaying in Australia KNOWING she could have COVID-19

The woman, 37, is being held in an immigration detention facility after she allegedly took a trip to Queensland's Hamilton Island after being tested and discharged from hospital.




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Illegal migrants given coronavirus tests in Dover as 169 people found trying to cross the Channel

It is understood the migrants were taken into the Port of Dover before being handed over to immigration officers, after being tested for coronavirus.