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US Drug Enforcement Administration officers stop a patron outside a nightclub where a raid took place on Sunday in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Photo: Drug Enforcement Administration via AP

More than 100 immigrants detained at Colorado nightclub

President Trump’s administration has launched a widespread crackdown on immigration into the US.

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US-Asean relations

The Southeast Asians facing exile from the US to a land they’ve never known

27 Apr 2025 - 8:00PM

ICE deports 2-year-old US citizen and mother of 1-year-old infant

27 Apr 2025 - 2:42AMvideocam

US reversing termination of legal status for foreign students, lawyer says

The Trump administration has faced numerous court challenges after over 1,200 students suddenly lost legal status or had visas revoked.

26 Apr 2025 - 1:52AM

A group of Florida International University students in Miami take part in a day of protests around the US in support of higher education on April 17. Photo: AP

FBI arrests US judge, accusing her of helping migrant evade authorities

Hannah Dugan allegedly refused to turn the man over to agents who showed up at her courtroom, instead letting him exit through a jury door.

26 Apr 2025 - 3:54PM

Southeast Asians in Los Angeles detained, deported at routine ICE check-ins

Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese immigrants are now facing enforcement of long-stayed deportation orders as the Trump administration boosts deportations.

23 Apr 2025 - 12:30AMvideocam

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US opposition to Trump has mobilised, but is it enough to slow his agenda down?

Anger has led to massive marches and confrontations with Republicans, but analysts question whether the movement poses a serious challenge.

22 Apr 2025 - 11:53PM

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Harvard University sues Trump over threats to cut US$2.2 billion in funding

Trump has sought to bring several universities to heel over claims they tolerated antisemitism by threatening budgets and tax-exempt status.

22 Apr 2025 - 3:35PM

Mexican leader asks TV stations to pull ‘discriminatory’ US anti-immigration ad

In ad, US homeland security chief Kristi Noem warns migrants who commit crimes ‘we will hunt you down’ because ‘criminals are not welcome’.

22 Apr 2025 - 9:19AM

Thousands protest, as new round of anti-Trump rallies hits US cities

Demonstrators took aim at the US president’s deportation of migrants and his administration’s ‘direct assault’ on the rule of law.

20 Apr 2025 - 7:10AM

Protesters hold signs with deicting Trump with a Hitler mustache in New York on Saturday. Photo: dpa

Trump officials say Harvard letter sparking legal battle was sent by mistake

The Ivy League university declined to ‘surrender’ to the letter’s demands, prompting an escalating series of attacks by the US president.

20 Apr 2025 - 2:24AM

Harvard University is reflected in the window of a store across the street on Thursday. Photo: AFP

US Supreme Court hits pause on deportations of Venezuelan migrants

Lawyers had filed urgent requests saying the men were at imminent risk of removal without the judicial review previously mandated by the court.

19 Apr 2025 - 2:33PM

Man wrongly deported from US says he’s been moved from El Salvador mega-prison

The update came from Senator Chris Van Hollen after he met Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man at the centre of a debate on rights and immigration.

19 Apr 2025 - 3:08PM

US lawsuit challenges revocation of visas for international students

The suit represents over 100 students from China, India and elsewhere, after many lost their legal status in a Trump administration crackdown.

19 Apr 2025 - 3:28PMvideocam

Demonstrators hold a “Hands off higher education” sign at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Thursday. Photo: AFP

Education in Hong Kong

Hongkongers eyeing US universities despite student visa crackdown: consultants

US has become a less popular destination in recent years, but some parents still drawn to quality of universities.

19 Apr 2025 - 2:21AM

Students gather at one of the gates of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photo: Getty Images

Opinion | Trump seems to be taking a leaf out of Chairman Mao’s book

Trump is purging officials, persecuting intellectuals and burnishing his cult of personality. If reason prevails, Americans will reject this.

18 Apr 2025 - 9:14PMvideocam

Supreme Court keeps hold on Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship

Trump said he is ‘so happy’ the Supreme Court will hear arguments in May. ‘I think the case has been so misunderstood,’ he said on Thursday.

18 Apr 2025 - 6:33AMvideocam

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Judge finds cause to hold Trump admin in contempt for El Salvador deportations

The administration did not turn around planes carrying deportees to a notorious prison despite an order from the court.

17 Apr 2025 - 2:10AM

Salvadoran police officers escort an alleged member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Centre in Tecoluca, El Salvador, in March. Photo: Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia via Reuters

Trump administration faces court inquiry over El Salvador deportation case

A judge demanded US officials provide documents and answer questions under oath about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation to El Salvador.

16 Apr 2025 - 10:00AM

Trump says he wants to give money, plane tickets to migrants who ‘self-deport’

The US president also said he wants to work to get ‘good’ immigrants back in the United States.

16 Apr 2025 - 6:32AM

Canada universities see jump in US applicants as Trump cuts funding at home

UBC Vancouver even briefly reopened admissions to US citizens for some graduate programmes in response to the spike in demand.

16 Apr 2025 - 4:48AM

Family members take photographs at the entrance of the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, on Monday. Photo: Reuters

Palestinian activist expecting US citizenship interview is arrested by ICE

Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent US resident and a critic of the war in Gaza, was arrested in Vermont on Monday.

15 Apr 2025 - 1:28PM

Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University, gives a peace sign as he is detained at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Colchester, Vermont on Monday. Photo: Christopher Helali via AP

El Salvador’s Bukele says he will not return wrongly deported migrant to US

Trump administration has been ordered by a court to facilitate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia after he was deported without due process.

15 Apr 2025 - 9:27AM

US deports another 10 gang members to El Salvador, Marco Rubio says

US secretary of state hailed alliance between Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele a day before Bukele’s White House visit.

14 Apr 2025 - 9:01AM

Harvard professors sue Trump over threat to US$9 billion in funding

The US president’s administration is reviewing grants and contracts as it cracks down on diversity programmes and Gaza protests on campuses.

13 Apr 2025 - 5:07AM

Demonstrators call on Harvard leadership to resist interference at the university by the federal government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on Saturday. Photo: Reuters

Israel-Gaza war

Judge rules US can deport Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil

The pro-Palestinian activist was the first person arrested under Trump’s crackdown on students taking part in campus protests over Gaza.

12 Apr 2025 - 3:59PM

Muslim protesters pray outside the main campus of Columbia University during a demonstration to denounce the immigration arrest of Mahmoud Khalil in New York in March. Photo: Reuters

Supreme Court says Trump admin must help bring back man sent to El Salvador

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported and put in a notorious prison in his native country despite being in the US legally.

11 Apr 2025 - 7:42AM

Who are US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s parents, Mario and Oriales Rubio?

Marco Rubio has been criticised for saying his parents fled Cuba when Fidel Castro came to power, even though they were granted permanent residency in the US several years before.

10 Apr 2025 - 7:00PM

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