by Shireen Akram-Boshar | Jun 11, 2026 | Customs and Border Protection (CBP), FIFA, FIFA World Cup, News, Somalia, Travel Ban
Omar Artan, the 34-year-old Somali referee who was denied entry to the U.S. for the World Cup, was welcomed in Mogadishu by crowds of supporters on Wednesday. On Saturday, Artan was refused entry to the U.S. after arriving in Miami, despite the fact that he arrived with a valid U.S. visa and had been invited to officiate at the World Cup. Instead, border officials questioned Artan for 11…
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by Brett Wilkins | Jun 6, 2026 | Asylum, immigration, News, Rhode Island, Travel Ban, Trump Administration
A federal judge in Rhode Island on Friday struck down a series of President Donald Trump’s policies that he ruled were rooted in “anti-immigrant sentiments” and ordered the administration to resume processing of asylum grants and immigration benefit applications of people from 39 targeted countries. Last November, US Citizenship and Immigration Services indefinitely suspended asylum…
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by Maha Hilal | Jan 6, 2026 | Boat Strikes, Courts, Donald Trump, Guantánamo, Guantánamo Bay, immigration, Nicolás Maduro, Op-Ed, Supreme Court, Travel Ban, Trump Administration, Venezuela
At a press conference on January 3, President Donald Trump announced that the United States had carried out strikes on Venezuela and captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Trump alleged that Maduro oversaw the Cartel de los Soles and had sent members of the Tren de Aragua gang to the United States to terrorize Americans. Unlike previous U.S. presidents…
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