Personal experience: who and why you should not move to the USA

So, let's say you have the opportunity to legally, that is, legally move to the United States. And if you are wondering whether to move or not, then one of the authors of the Pikabu blog, citing his experience and giving examples, told who to do this and why...

Americans are moving out of flood-prone areas in droves, a migration scientists call a 'death spiral'

The increasing risk of flooding is accelerating the relocation of Americans from hazardous counties across the United States. This could lead to mass migration of historic proportions, TheHill reports. According to findings published in the journal Nature Climate Change, these abandoned areas tend to represent...

If not in the USA, then...: the pros and cons of living in the Balkans

The Balkan countries are deservedly considered a favorite holiday destination for residents of the post-Soviet space. However, recently, Serbia, Montenegro and Croatia are increasingly becoming an attractive place for a full-fledged move not only for new refugees and relocants, but also for immigrants who have been living in…

Unprecedented measures: Texas tries to fence itself off from illegal immigrants with a multi-kilometer barrier of cars

The governor of Texas has approved a multi-kilometer police car barrier at the border to keep more than 8000 illegal immigrants from entering the state, according to CNN. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Tuesday that 8600 illegal migrants remain under the Del Rio International Bridge, who ...

The UN is sounding the alarm: more and more immigrants die in the Americas

More than 500 migrants died in the Americas in 2019, according to the UN, up about 33% from a year ago. Writes about this ABC News. International Organization for Migration (IOM) spokesman Joel Millman said the "riots" in ...

Mistakes that migrants make when moving

The author of this blog moved from Russia to Dallas, Texas, more than a year ago. Now the girl is studying in college and talks about her life in America on a blog on Pikabu - including the mistakes that migrants make when moving.…

Trump's new immigration plan may exclude millions of people from the green card waiting list

The new immigration plan of US President Donald Trump provides that more than 4 million people who have been waiting for green cards for years, citing family ties or a work contract, will be removed from the waiting list, writes Forbes. “Immigrants who are queuing up for a green card will lose ...

Americans massively leave California

According to the recently published US census data, 38 thousand more people left California than in 2018, writes Quartz. For the second year in a row, California has recorded negative migration, and this trend is increasing. Every year since 2014, a net ...

Trump's decision to send illegal immigrants to refuge cities will help them stay in the country

The idea by President Donald Trump's administration to send immigrants who have entered the U.S. illegally to cities of refuge may ultimately be beneficial to the immigrants themselves. In these cities it will be easier for them to “put down roots” and stay in the country. Denver Post writes about it. ...

How scammers lure money from immigrants by pretending to be ICE agents

In the United States, fraudsters have appeared who, posing as agents for immigration and customs control (ICE), threaten with arrest and deportation of migrants and extort money from them, writes Newsweek. The scammers worked according to the following scheme: they called random victims (no preliminary information about them ...

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