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Immigrant-rights activists took a victory lap Friday over Fairfax County’s new sanctuary policy limiting police cooperation with federal immigration agents, saying it could protect thousands of illegal immigrants from being deported.
President Trump signaled Friday that he will once again move to cancel the Obama-era DACA deportation amnesty, though this time he said he’ll check all the proper procedural boxes.
The U.S. extended border restrictions with Mexico and Canada while Beijing raised its COVID-19 threat level and closed its schools Tuesday, as global leaders tried not to squander hard-won gains against the coronavirus.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the administration’s challenge to California’s main sanctuary city law protecting immigrants who are in the country illegally, dealing a significant blow to President Trump’s hopes of forcing jurisdictions to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
America’s reopening after the coronavirus crisis brought a surge of human and drug smuggling to the southern border in May along with a worrying rise in the most abusive smuggling tactics.
The Government Accountability Office dinged Homeland Security’s border agency Thursday for misspending some of the money Congress approved last year to handle thew surge of illegal immigrant families, saying spending should have gone for medical care or food, not dirt bikes or security cameras.
The Trump administration proposed a major rewrite of the asylum system Wednesday curtailing the types of dangers that can qualify for protections and effectively barring those who fear domestic abuse or gang violence from getting asylum.
ICE’s policy empowering officers to arrest illegal immigrants at courthouses is illegal, a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday, delivering a major symbolic blow to the deportation agency.
ICE announced Wednesday that it has offered coronavirus testing all detainees at two of its holding facilities, as the agency moves to head off more court-ordered releases and improve its knowledge of COVID-19 within the detained migrant population.
God may absolve us of our sins, but Jesus cannot hide them from Customs and Border Protection officers, who announced Tuesday they sniffed out a 9-pound shipment of ketamine someone tried to smuggle into the U.S. inside framed images of the Christ.
The U.S. had just witnessed the worst month on record for illegal immigrant parents and children streaming across the southern border in May 2019, and an irate President Trump took to Twitter demanding Mexico do something about it — or else face crippling tariffs.
Federal prosecutors this week announced they had won convictions and closed out a disturbing illegal immigration case in which an Iowa woman and her husband sneaked a girl into the U.S. with a plan to impregnate her and have her carry the baby as a surrogate.
Officers at border crossings between the U.S. and Mexico broke policy to separate dozens of illegal immigrant families during the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy in 2018, according to a new inspector general’s audit released Tuesday.
Homeland Security and the Labor Department have transmitted recommendations to President Trump for next steps in his immigration pause, putting the White House on the clock for its next big decision about whether foreign workers will help or hurt the coronavirus recovery.
The government’s legal immigration agency said Wednesday it will start its post-coronavirus crisis reopening June 4, including once again starting to swear in new citizens.
In Trump she no longer trusts. Ann Coulter went on a Twitter tear against the president, calling him, among other things a “retard,” a “moron,” and someone who can’t even pretend to be a “decent, compassionate human being.”
Homeland Security will exempt foreign professional athletes from President Trump’s strict coronavirus travel ban, acting Secretary Chad Wolf announced late Friday, saying the nation needs its sports competitions back up and running.
Colorado State University, which is anticipating a $100 million revenue hit from the shutdown, is handing out $1,500 checks to illegal immigrants to help support them during the novel coronavirus crisis.
The Trump administration told a federal court Wednesday that it has canceled a portion of border wall it had planned to build near Yuma, Arizona, saying costs for other parts of the wall are coming in higher than anticipated and there’s not enough money to go around.
Hispanic Democrats in Congress begged the Trump administration on Wednesday to stop all deportations, saying the U.S. could actually be spreading the coronavirus back to other nations by sending their citizens back home.
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is indefinitely renewing its coronavirus anti-illegal immigration border policy, which allows Border Patrol agents to quickly return most apprehended migrants back across the border.
A South Korean migrant awaiting deportation after being convicted of murder-related charges died over the weekend while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, the agency announced Tuesday, saying it appeared he took his own life.
A majority of voters support President Trump’s partial immigration pause during the coronavirus pandemic — though they do list other steps such as working on COVID-19 testing and developing a vaccine as higher priorities, according to a new poll Tuesday.
House Democrats on Friday narrowly rejected a GOP-led motion to prevent illegal immigrants from getting coronavirus stimulus checks.
The federal agency that handles citizenship and other legal immigration applications warned Congress late last week that it’s running out of money during the coronavirus crisis and will soon have to take “drastic actions” unless Congress comes up with $1.2 billion in emergency cash.
The unemployment rate among immigrants has soared 320% during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report Thursday by the Center for Immigration Studies that suggests they’re having just as tough a time finding jobs as native-born Americans.
Mexican-connected drug cartels had a mole inside the U.S. attorney’s office in San Antonio, the FBI says, accusing her of leaking secret information about ongoing investigations, including tipping off targets who had been indicted or were about to be arrested.
If President Trump is allowed to use Defense Department money to complete his border wall, it will be the final step in eliminating the endangered jaguar from U.S. territory, environmentalists said Tuesday in a lawsuit trying to block construction.
ICE confirmed the death of a detainee from El Salvador who had contracted COVID-19 while in custody in California, in a statement Thursday detailing the man’s lengthy history as an illegal immigrant and criminal.
Homeland Security has reported its first case of COVID-19 tourism after capturing an illegal immigrant from Mexico who suspected he had the disease and jumped the border hoping to get treatment from American doctors.
A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit that had overturned the conviction of a woman accused of profiting from illegal immigration.
Key GOP allies implored President Trump on Thursday to expand his immigration pause to include temporary guest-workers, saying those foreigners who come for only a short period of time are the “critical” threat to out-of-work Americans looking for jobs.
Immigration-rights advocates expressed outrage Wednesday after a news report that a migrant being detained by ICE in California has died from COVID-19, saying they’d warned the agency to release more people to reduce the risks.
Shut out of the federal stimulus, illegal immigrants are turning to charity — and California is leading a national charge of state and local governments, as well as nonprofit organizations, asking Americans to help by digging into their own stimulus checks to make tax-deductible donations.
Border Patrol agents in Arizona have been inundated with drone drug drops over the last week, reporting three separate incidents — and managing to capture the drones in two of them.
Top Democrats called Friday for coronavirus stimulus checks to go to illegal immigrants, but said at the very least their spouses or children who are in the country legally should be able to get checks.
A federal appeals court shot down a Kansas policy that required voters who registered under the federal Motor-Voter law to prove they were citizens before being allowed to vote, saying Wednesday that it shut tens of thousands of voters out of the process.
A Los Angeles-area lawyer bribed FBI and immigration agents to provide “protection” for him, with one scouring law enforcement databases to warn him of ongoing investigations, while the other cooked the books to help a client and a relative with immigration matters, according to a plea agreement filed in federal court this week.
President Trump warned Democrats Tuesday that he will demand “adjustments” for sanctuary cities as a condition of bailout aid for states, as both parties take increasingly partisan paths toward the next round of emergency coronavirus relief.
The Trump administration notified Congress this week that it will try to refill the money it took from Pentagon accounts to use to build the border wall by cutting European defense assistance.
Democrats blasted President Trump’s attempt to pause some immigration during the coronavirus crisis, saying Tuesday that the battle against COVID-19 is actually an opportunity to welcome migrants and show more leniency toward undocumented immigrants in particular.
President Trump’s wall is the most aggressive border construction project in U.S. history — but it just got 22 miles shorter.
New York Attorney General Letitia James said Wednesday that she is “ready to take legal action” to try to stop President Trump’s new immigration pause, saying he was usurping Congress’ power to write immigration policy.
Customs and Border Protection on Wednesday posted an interactive map giving Americans the ability to see exactly where the new border wall is being built on the U.S.-Mexico line.
President Trump said Tuesday he will order a 60-day halt to new immigrants with an eye toward preventing them from competing with Americans for jobs during the coronavirus crisis — though he said temporary guest workers will still be allowed.
President Trump’s plans to temporarily halt immigration due to the coronavirus pandemic has reignited claims of xenophobia and major news outlets like ABC’s “Good Morning America” are promoting the criticism.
The government’s top auditor gave ICE and the Border Patrol a mostly clean bill of health Tuesday when it comes to treatment of pregnant illegal immigrants, finding that while dozens of complaints of maltreatment are lodged, few of them can be substantiated.
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Tuesday that President Trump “is committed to protecting the health and economic well-being of American citizens as we face unprecedented times” as the president prepares to temporarily ban immigration to the U.S.
President Trump announced Monday he would temporarily suspend immigration into the United States due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Saturday that his country’s border with the United States will remain closed to non-essential travel for an additional 30 days.
The federal government has asked more than a dozen migrants a judge ordered released from detention last week to re-report and be detained by ICE, saying an appeals court has since put the lower court’s decision on hold.
Federal agents nabbed a Mexican man just before he was to fly back home this week, and charged him with smuggling drugs through a 2,000-foot cross-border tunnel discovered last month running between Tijuana and San Diego.
