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Visa Waiver Program

A program that allows citizens of certain countries to travel to the United States without a visa, with restrictions on employment.

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Jan 12, 2026
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Trump truth social post casting America was full of raging alcoholics and called for prohibition 18th amendment?

There is no direct, verifiable evidence in the reporting provided that former President Trump posted on Truth Social an explicit claim that “America was full of raging alcoholics” and that he called f...

Jan 23, 2026
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Do US citizens need a work visa to work in Canada?

Yes — citizens generally must hold Canadian work authorization (a work permit) to lawfully take paid employment in , though streamlined, treaty-based pathways and a handful of program exceptions make ...

Jan 17, 2026
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Which visa categories allow adjustment of status after an overstay without leaving the U.S.?

A narrow set of immigration categories lets a person who entered lawfully remain in the United States and apply to adjust to lawful permanent resident status despite having overstayed: primarily immed...

Feb 1, 2026

How many people got arrested during the Hyundai raid last year, and how many of those people actually had visa problems?

Federal authorities detained roughly 475 people in the at the in — media outlets and law enforcement consistently reported about 475 (described also as “nearly 500” or “hundreds”) arrests . What remai...

Jan 21, 2026

Why is the U.S. refugee policy both secure and streamlined?

calls its refugee policy both secure and streamlined because it pairs legally codified, centralized processing systems and interagency with a coordinated designed to move vetted people from referral t...

Jan 14, 2026

True or false did they pass a law if you were not born in the US you could not hold a government office job

False: no single law has been passed that broadly bars anyone born abroad from holding “a government office job” in the United States; the constitutional “natural-born citizen” requirement applies onl...

Jan 30, 2026

What pathways exist for undocumented immigrants to gain lawful status or asylum in the United States?

in the can sometimes obtain lawful status through a mix of long-standing immigration forms (family petitions, asylum, humanitarian visas), special statutory mechanisms (registry, section 245(i)), reli...

Jan 17, 2026

What was President Obama's immigration policy regarding refugees and asylum seekers?

President Obama’s refugee and asylum policy combined an expansion of resettlement and international leadership on refugees with a law‑and‑order approach to border enforcement: he raised refugee ceilin...

Jan 11, 2026

is immigration enforcement a relatively recent phenomena?

Immigration enforcement in the United States is emphatically not a recent phenomenon: federal regulation and exclusionary practices date to the earliest years of the republic and were formalized throu...