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Immigration

Hungary signals it’s serious about sending buses of asylum seekers to EU headquarters

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has drawn fire recently for saying he doesn't want Hungary to become a "mixed race" nation.

Bad lawyering, but no relief

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A criminal defendant did not need to be advised that he would face mandatory deportation and a permanent ban from the country if he entered an Alford plea to criminal sexual conduct with a minor, ruled the South Carolina Court of Appeals. His counsel should have explicitly advised the man of the immigration penalties, but the defendant did not show how this omission prejudiced him, as he still would have taken the plea and its lesser sentence even if he was told this.

At least 12 migrants die in English Channel wreck

A vessel crammed with migrants from Eritrea broke apart about 3 miles off the northern coast of France. At least 12 people died in what has become one of the deadliest years yet for migrant crossings in the English Channel.

Georgia judge blocks federal rule allowing migrant farmworkers to join unions in 17 states

A U.S. Department of Labor regulation expanding protections for farmworkers on temporary visas and preventing employers from retaliating against those who try to form or join a labor organization is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled.

Robert Kennedy Jr. joins Trump at Arizona rally to officially endorse former president

Trump announced plans to create an independent commission on presidential assassination attempts, and vowed to make public all remaining documents relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Red states sue to block spousal citizenship program

Sixteen Republican-led states call the Biden administration's Keeping Families Together program an overreach.

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