While President Donald Trump signed executive orders this week that could have widespread impact on immigrant communities, many in K-12 education await word on his decision on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

Parents in disadvantaged households are less likely to book share with their children during early childhood. These children are more likely to enter school with delays in emergent literacy and language skills, apparent as early as the age of 3.

This study examines the effect of parental immigrant status as a predictor of reading and sharing books with children. This research disentangles immigrant status from other variables thought to explain disparities in familial practices related to emergent literacy. (Read the full article)

The new Trump administration rule regarding immigrants' use of federal benefits could have an indirect but significant impact on schools, education advocates warn.

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Bihar Water Minister Sanjay Kumar Jha hitout at the Delhi government after it claimed reimbursement over train fares paid for return of migrants stranded in the national capital amid the coronavirus...

They had started their journey on foot from Maharashtra hoping to reach Madhya Pradesh, but it was their bodies that reached their home districts of Shahdol and Umaria by special trains on Saturday...

The West Bengal government on Saturday refuted the allegations of non-cooperation by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and said that it has facilitated the return of around 6,000 migrants stranded outside...

While nearly eight lakh migrant workers stranded in Haryana have registered themselves on a government portal to return to their native states, over 1.5 lakh of them have applied on the same portal...

Over 1 lakh migrant workers from Uttar Pradesh stranded in different parts of the country following the coronavirus-induced lockdown will return to the state by Saturday night on 114 trains, a senior...

The West Bengal government has agreed to allow eight trains to bring migrants home from four states, the Railway Ministry tweeted today. It said Bengal had until now allowed only two "Shramik"...

To ensure safety, passengers would be screened by the sending states and only those found asymptomatic would be allowed to travel. Sending state governments will have to bring these persons in batches that can be accommodated in the train to the designated railway station in sanitised buses following social distancing norms and other precautions.

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In its status report submitted earlier, the Centre had said that all the steps were being taken for the welfare and benefit of migrant workers.

The ministry of home affairs (MHA) had on April 19 issued a detailed standard operating procedure while allowing suitable deployment of their skills. As per Census, 2001, the total number of internal migrants in India was 309.385 million.

The Centre’s bid to arrogate to itself the power to fix the wage floor for inter-state migrant workers in the name of uniformity across the country has hit a hurdle.

The issue faced by migrant workers took the centre stage as labour minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar met the representatives of 12 central trade unions (CTUs).

From April 2019, there will be several changes in the H-1B visa application. Now, the organizations required to register electronically before the visa lottery procedure to obtain H-1B visas for their workers. As per the latest rules, the candidates…

There was an institutional response by the Centre and the situation was monitored at the highest political and executive level by the Prime Minister, the government said.

The labour ministry has started mapping details of such workers from April 8. Along with basic details such as name, age, gender, occupation, residential address and native district/state, details of their bank accounts and Aadhhar cards are also being collected.

Many workers have moved to their homes, but those who are still in Surat are desperate to move out of Gujarat, as the number of corona positive cases is rapidly surging.

The MHA has asked all states and Union Territories to designate nodal authorities and develop standard protocols for receiving and sending such stranded persons.

Meanwhile, member of the Bhartiya Rail Sangharsh Samiti Shan Khan has demanded for special trains from Surat to Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh for stranded labourers.

Work visa rules have modified in a move designed by the government to lessen exploitation and promote migrant worker conditions.The latest rules came into force on 7 October 2019, involve workers having a minimum base salary of $79,560 to be eligible…

Hundreds of migrant workers came onto the streets and clashed with the police at a village in Surat district of Gujarat today to demand that they either be sent back to their home states or allowed to...

Shah said migrant workers from West Bengal are also eager to reach home and the central government is also facilitating the train services.

Amidst Coronavirus breakdown, a reverse trend of people wanting to get back to work has been noticed in Haryana.

After the central government has permitted the operation of special trains to take migrants back to their hometowns, a debate on who will bear the cost has been going on.

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Migrant labourers in Indian cities whose incomes have plummeted as a result of anti-coronavirus lockdown measures have been told that they will have to pay to board special trains taking them back to their homes in the countryside.

The decision has prompted derision in India, where most labourers live off what they earn in a day and have been surviving on state handouts.

Sponsors of Tier 2 migrants will be aware that they are obliged to retain certain documents for every sponsored migrant for a set period of time as part of their sponsorship duties. The specific documents that sponsors are required to retain and the...

Those sent home will continue to be monitored by local officials for signs of ill health, though, provincial officials say.

The flight from Italy was one of the last arrivals that day at the Stockholm airport. A Swedish couple in their 50s walked up and loaded their skis into Razzak Khalaf's taxi.

The migrants awaiting deportation climbed over the walls and escaped the repatriation centre on Sunday when EnviroMongz Projects security guards left their posts.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has ordered a probe into the drowning of several Afghan migrants last week after reports that Iranian border guards allegedly forced them into a river.

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Congress said Parliament...