Immigration Reform
The latest news, analysis and debates on immigration reform and policy.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed President Trump’s plan to pay for a border wall via military funding as “appalling” on Thursday.
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Julian Castro will be the sole Latino and only former mayor from a predominately Hispanic city when the third Democratic presidential debate tees off here Thursday in his home state of Texas.
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While sneaking illegal immigrants over fences or across rivers is the most common method, the deaths of the migrants highlight the more lucrative trade in bringing them straight through the country’s front door undetected.
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President Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to use emergency powers to build his border wall, siphoning money away from military projects, saying “we need help on the border.”
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A majority of the government’s facilities to house illegal immigrant children awaiting placement with families allowed employees to begin working before their full background checks were performed, an inspector general said in a report Wednesday, dinging the Health Department system for lapses.
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Homeland Security announced Monday that it will once again begin approving petitions for a stay of deportation for migrants with hardship cases such as major medical problems, after being hit with a ferocious backlash when it stopped taking the cases.
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Department of Homeland Security officials chided reporters Thursday for bungling a story on changes to the definition of residence in citizenship guidelines, leaving many Americans wrongly convinced the Trump administration was tweaking birthright citizenship.
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By Astrid Galvan - Associated Press
The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled new rules that will make it harder for children of some immigrants serving in the military to obtain citizenship.
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Democratic voters are increasingly likely to support a 2020 presidential candidate who favors a softer line on immigration, including a candidate who backs abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and letting more immigrants enter the U.S., according to a survey released on Wednesday.
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The Department of Homeland Security has alerted Congress it will shift hundreds of millions of dollars to boost its ability to hold and quickly deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally, drawing a rebuke from Democrats who said the money is being cut from critical needs such as disaster relief.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham on Tuesday blasted states that are suing over the Trump administration’s new rules that would allow families to be held while they’re awaiting deportation proceedings, saying that finding solutions on immigration could ultimately lie in sending people to Washington, D.C., who “don’t hate Trump.”
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A coalition of 20 Democratic attorneys general announced Monday they are suing to block the administration’s new rules that would allow immigrant families who are in the U.S. illegally to be detained while their deportation hearings are taking place.
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An immigrant from Ecuador who worked for the Catholic Church, ostensibly helping other immigrants apply for benefits, was indicted this week on charges that she actually bilked those clients, pocketing their fees and never bothering to file their paperwork.
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The Justice Department proposed changes to the immigration court system Friday that would give more power to the agency’s political leadership.
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A Honduran woman drowned in the Rio Grande this week and Border Patrol agents were still searching Thursday for her 3-year-old boy, swept away with her.
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By Associated Press
A federal judge in Kansas has ruled that a law making it a crime to “encourage” or “induce” immigrants to enter or live in the country illegally is unconstitutional.
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Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said Thursday that American law is forcing the government to help smuggle immigrants into the U.S. illegally.
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One of President Trump’s top immigration lieutenants unloaded on former House Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Thursday, saying the one-time top Republican ruined a chance to solve the immigration crisis last year.
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President Trump said the goal is to change the thinking: If illegal immigrants are detained, then they can be deported. Once others see the deportations, they will think twice about making the dangerous trip.
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President Trump on Wednesday renewed his threat to cut off automatic birthright citizenship for babies born in the U.S. to illegal immigrant mothers.
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Border Patrol agents arrested 330,000 people in 2017 but only took DNA samples from fewer than 100 of them, breaking a federal law and allowing serious criminals to go free, a government watchdog reported Wednesday.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Julian Castro on Wednesday slammed the Trump administration’s planned workaround to a court agreement that has allowed illegal immigrant children and parents to pour into the U.S., creating a de facto “catch and release” policy for the families.
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President Trump will move Wednesday to cancel the family “loophole” that’s allowed illegal-immigrant parents and children to pour into the U.S., proposing new rules that would replace the 2015 Flores Settlement court order that created a de facto catch-and-release policy for the families.
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DACA’s seventh anniversary has sparked a new round of introspection, with immigrant rights advocates saying the program has proved its worth by helping give opportunity to a generation of children who have become doctors, soldiers, lawyers and teachers. But the program does have a darker side.
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By Rachel Lerman - Associated Press
Hundreds of Google employees are calling on the company to pledge it won’t work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection or Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It’s the latest in a year full of political and social pushback from the tech giant’s workforce.
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From dousing police with water to doxxing immigration agents to attacking detention centers, it’s been a long, hot summer for law enforcement, and the inflammatory political rhetoric on the left isn’t helping.
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El Paso, Texas, Mayor Dee Margo said this week President Trump questioned his status as a Republican when he visited the city in the wake of a mass shooting.
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Authorities in Texas busted a massive illegal immigrant stash house last week, rescuing 73 migrants from smugglers who allegedly kicked them, used a stun gun on them and carried a pistol to “terrorize” them.
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Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright knocked acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli for his revisions to the Statue of Liberty immigration poem.
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Sen. Charles E. Schumer penned a letter Wednesday officially asking President Trump to cancel his $5 billion request for border wall money in the new budget, and to use the cash on combatting domestic terrorism and racist violence.
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Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli doubled down on his revisions to the Statue of Liberty immigration poem Tuesday by saying it was referring to “people coming from Europe.”
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By Sonia Perez D. - Associated Press
A Guatemalan immigration agreement signed with the Trump administration won’t work because the Central American nation does not have the resources, the country’s new president-elect says.
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A gunman opened fire early Tuesday morning on San Antonio buildings where ICE and its contractors have offices, in the latest incident that appears to target the law enforcement agency that handles deportations.
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San Francisco and Santa Clara counties filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the Trump administration’s new rule discouraging immigrants from using welfare, saying it contradicts decades of past practice.
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Univision’s Jorge Ramos says a “demographic revolution” has already been fought and won, whether Americans realize it or not.
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Ken Cuccinelli, acting director for the United States Citizenship And Immigration Services, on Tuesday suggested changes to the Emma Lazarus poem, which adorns the Statue of Liberty, that would match up better with the administration’s new rule changes limiting immigration for poorer migrants.
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Rep. Denny Heck said Monday President Trump “hates all immigrants” who aren’t a part of his family, according to a scathing interview after the administration announced a rule change preventing illegal immigrants to use services such as food stamps.
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The Trump administration finalized rules Monday that could reshape the flow of legal immigrants who earn a place in the U.S., proposing to penalize migrants for having used welfare programs when they apply for permanent status.
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By Jeff Amy - Associated Press
Young people march from a Catholic church in Mississippi to a town square to protest hundreds of arrests in immigration raids on poultry plants; churches offer aid and solace to those swept up in crackdown
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Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan defended his agency’s approach to immigration raids on Sunday after a video of a sobbing daughter went viral this week.
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An El Paso detective said this week the man who is suspected of shooting up a Walmart last Saturday confessed after his surrender that his goal was to target Mexicans, the AP reported Friday.
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President Trump on Friday defended immigration sweeps in Mississippi targeting illegal immigrants, saying he wants to send a message that people entering the country illegally will be deported.
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Illegal immigration across the southwestern border has been cut dramatically over the past two months, officials revealed Thursday, pointing to President Trump’s deal with Mexico to step up that country’s enforcement as the chief reason.
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Immigrant-rights groups accused ICE agents of “acts of terror” after the agency raided seven Mississippi businesses Wednesday morning, arresting hundreds of illegal immigrants who’d been working there.
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Immigrant-rights groups sued Tuesday to try to stop the Department of Homeland Security’s new speedy deportation policy, saying the Trump administration is cutting too many corners and stripping migrants of due process rights to fight their removal.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Tim Ryan on Monday said it was an “absolute freaking joke” for President Trump to suggest tying new gun controls to immigration reform in the wake of weekend shootings in Texas and Ohio that have left at least 29 people dead.
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Monday said it was “absurd” to tie new gun controls to immigration reform, which President Trump had suggested in the wake of the weekend shootings in Texas and Ohio.
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Homeland Security agents nabbed a group of illegal immigrants in remote Arizona this week and found the guide was also carrying a large supply of methamphetamine, in what authorities described as a growing — and worrying — trend.
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A Salvadoran man died Thursday morning in Border Patrol custody, just hours after he’d been nabbed illegally crossing into the U.S.
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Tensions reached a boiling point Thursday as Republicans powered a solution to the border crisis through a Senate committee, brushing aside objections of Democrats who said the extended powers of detention and limits to new asylum claims in the legislation were cruel.
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Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden blasted fellow Democrats who want decriminalize illegally crossing the border, saying Wednesday it would be an invitation to a new surge of illegal immigration from across the world.
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House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah E. Cummings sent a letter Wednesday asking Homeland Security to reveal when officials learned about secret Facebook groups frequented by Border Patrol agents where offensive messages were exchanged.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke on Wednesday said Sen. Elizabeth Warren was wrong when she said in Tuesday’s debate that President Trump is using the criminal code to separate families seeking to cross the U.S. southern border.
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By Associated Press
Mexico said Tuesday the number of mainly Central American migrants traveling through the country to reach the U.S. border has declined by 39% since May.
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