Washington: US universities have registered a hefty drop in the number of applications from Indian students amid a spate of hate crimes and fear about potential changes to visa policies by the Trump administration, found […]
Washington: Indian-American Congressman Ro Khanna has termed as “dumb” some of the budget proposals of US President Donald Trump and described the move to cut foreign aid as “inhumane”. Khanna, the first-time Democratic lawmaker elected to […]
Too many of our public school students and their families are living in fear. They don’t know how new immigration policies coming from Washington might affect them. They worry about what might happen if Immigration […]
DALLAS (TIP): Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been targeting so-called “sanctuary cities” with increased enforcement operations in an effort to pressure those jurisdictions to cooperate with federal immigration agents, a senior US immigration official with […]
The first open hearing into the alleged links between the campaign of Donald Trump and unnamed parties associated with the Russian government kicked off this week, even as the President put out a series of […]
Starting April 3, 2017, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will temporarily suspend premium processing for all H-1B petitions, a statement issued by the USCIS stated. This suspension may last up to 6 months. While H-1B […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian-American healthcare consultant Seema Verma, on March 14, was sworn-in as the head of a key healthcare agency in the Donald Trump administration. The Senate on March 13 confirmed Verma as administrator of […]
“One of the first acts of the new President Donald Trump was to announce the nomination of Judge Gorsuch, described by one columnist as ‘Scalia:2’! While the description may not quite hold true (as many […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Hours before it was to take effect, President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban was put on hold March 15 by a federal judge in Hawaii after hearing arguments that the executive order discriminates […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian American attorney Harmeet Dhillon, a California GOP leader and vocal supporter of Trump, is under consideration to run the civil rights branch of the U.S. Department of Justice, according to a report […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Donald Trump renominated Ajit Pai as FCC Chairman on Tuesday, March 7, extending his role into a second five-year term. He was designated Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission by President Donald […]
It was not the Trump Americans have known who addressed the joint session of Congress on February 28 night, He disappointed many by being so untrumpian. It was a different Trump that night whocalled on […]
Could this Russian Angle be bigger than just Sessions, or Flynn??? NEW YORK (TIP) : Russian involvement in the US presidential elections and President Donald Trump‘s ties with Putin began during his campaign and is […]
Bundle of nerves: Are we getting paranoid about freedom of speech? The rise of Modi and the continued Cabinet slots for those preaching sectarian hatred is not much different from President Trump listening to the whisperings […]
US President Donald Trump sounded upbeat as he addressed a joint session of Congress for the first time. He condemned the murder of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who was shot dead in Kansas by a white veteran, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Donald Trump‘s administration on Thursday reinstated the use of private prisons for federal inmates, saying commercial prison operators are needed for the correctional system’s “future needs.” Trump’s new attorney general, Jeff Sessions, […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): The Trump administration has ended federal protections for transgender students that instructed schools to allow them to use bathrooms and locker rooms matching their gender identities. Stepping into an emotional national debate, the […]
Herbert Raymond “H.R.” McMaster has been picked to serve as President DonaldTrump’s new national security adviser. The active duty 3-star Army general is expected to have a relatively easy confirmation process, as he is widely […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Activist scaled the Statue of Liberty and unfurled a red and white “Refugees Welcome” banner on Tuesday, just hours after the Department of Homeland Security unveiled its sweeping plan to deport undocumented […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian-American authors Jhumpa Lahiri and Anish Kapoor joined scores of other writers to oppose the controversial travel ban by US President Donald Trump, asking him to “rescind” his last month’s executive order. “In […]
Plans to bypass Immigration Courts and short-circuit ‘Due Process’ President Donald Trump, meeting with business leaders at the White House on Thursday, February 23, described his administration’s moves to deport undocumented immigrants as a “military […]
Washington: Nearly 300,000 Indian-Americans are likely to be impacted by the Trump administration‘s sweeping plans that put the nation’s 11 million undocumented immigrants at risk of deportation. The Trump administration is releasing more on its plans […]
President Donald Trump suffered a big political blow on Monday, barely a month into office, when his National Security Adviser, Michael Flynn, resigned over his Russia contacts. Mr. Flynn, a close aide of Mr. Trump, […]
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