The United States has withdrawn from the UN Human Rights Council. Washington is citing “chronic bias against Israel” as the reason. The decision was announced by Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN.
President Donald Trump said that the US will not be a “migrant camp.” The president is trying to defend a controversial policy that involves separating migrant children from their parents at the border. The policy has attracted outrage all over the country.
Trump’s executive order banning travel to the United States from a number of Muslim countries is in front of the Supreme Court. This time, the ban faces better prospects after it was rejected the first time by most federal courts around the country.
The number of new foreign students in the US dropped by 3% in 2017 with the decline expected to double in 2018. Data also shows that the US has granted fewer visitor visas during the Trump administration.