The Trump Administration wants to deny green card holders and other legal immigrants who use welfare programmes from obtaining permanent legal status in the US
A visit by New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to a migrant detention center in Texas has drawn attention to the sub-standard conditions in which the migrants are housed.
A failure to take responsibility for mistakes and a lack of awareness of the impact of policies have been highlighted in a leaked report as some of the problems within the Home Office.