The US Supreme Court has ruled that a Trump-era ban on granting green cards to legal immigrants receiving government benefits is constitutional. The so-called “public charge” rule was announced last year and stirred up controversy. […]
The Supreme Court will hear a case on whether or not states have the right to prosecute undocumented immigrants under identity-theft laws. Currently, only the federal government can prosecute illegal immigrants who use fake social […]
The US House of Representatives recently passed the “Cambodia Democracy Act of 2019”. If passed by the Senate and signed into legislation by Donald Trump, the bill would allow the president to sanction high-level Cambodian […]
The Trump Administration recently announced in an internal memo that it will close all overseas US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) offices, including the Thailand USCIS branch located in Bangkok. USCIS offices typically handle family […]
The Thai government is pushing the US and other former colonial powers like the UK to return their artwork and other antiquities that Thai officials believe the country has a cultural right to. Many Thai […]
The United States is calling on the Thai government to allow foreign workers to set up labor unions, stating that the move is to to protect the rights of migrants in Thailand. Under existing Thailand […]
President Donald Trump recently nominated the right-wing judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the US Supreme Court following the retirement of conservative justice Anthony Kennedy. On the surface level, the like-for-like replacement looks like it […]
At the end of Donald Trump’s second year in office, it is projected that legal immigration to the US will have dropped by 12%. The tightening of the borders to both legal and illegal immigrants […]
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 last week that government authorities must first get a warrant before accessing the location data of suspected criminals, in what looks to be a huge win for privacy advocates, […]
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill last week giving the Department of Justice sweeping new powers to increase penalties on those using and selling synthetic drugs. The law, dubbed the Stop the Importation […]
