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The Justice Department has decided not to appeal a court ruling that requires the government to facilitate illegal-immigrant teens getting abortions in the U.S., defying President Trump’s pro-life allies who had been calling for a fight all the way to the Supreme Court.
The administration still has yet to fence in any new miles of border with President Trump’s wall, a top Homeland Security official acknowledged Thursday — though he said that’s not the right way to look at the problem.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops elected as president Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, an immigrant born in Mexico, on Tuesday morning in Baltimore.
The question before the Supreme Court on Tuesday is incredibly specific: Did Mr. Trump and his aides check all the correct procedural boxes when they announced the phaseout?
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Friday that she is “open to suspending deportations” for illegal immigrants if she becomes president.
Most of the 680 illegal immigrants nabbed in August’s immigration raids at poultry plants in Mississippi worked under stolen American identities, the Department of Homeland Security’s top investigator told Congress Thursday, rebuffing Democrats who insisted the “undocumented” workers were doing no harm.
House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie G. Thompson said Thursday that his committee is battling to try to make companies pay illegal immigrants snared in this summer’s raid on poultry processing plants in Mississippi.
Bernie Sanders is adding his support to a call by some of his fellow presidential hopefuls for decriminalizing illegal border crossings, a proposal that’s further exposing deep ideological divides in the Democratic primary and may prove politically treacherous for the party in the general election.
Sen. Bernard Sanders on Thursday unveiled a proposal to overhaul U.S. immigration law that would put a moratorium on deportations and “break up” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
President Trump on Friday set a cap for the U.S. to accept just 18,000 refugees this fiscal year, marking the lowest number since the modern refugee system was created nearly 40 years ago.
It turns out that asking about citizenship may not have soured the 2020 census after all, according to a test the Census Bureau did to see what the effect of the controversial question would be.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former chair of the Democratic National Committee, accused the chief of the government’s legal immigration agency Wednesday of pursuing a “white supremacist ideology,” sparking a brief row in a congressional committee.
Just about everyone agrees that the U.S. owes an immense debt of gratitude to its veterans. An increasing number of members of Congress says that debt should include forgiveness even for violent crimes such as domestic violence, and public safety risks like drunken-driving, when the alternative is deportation.
The Trump administration has taken big steps to solve the border surge of illegal immigrants from Central America, but smuggling cartels are responding by recruiting new migrants from Brazil and Mexico, officials said Tuesday.
More than 150,000 illegal immigrants evaded capture at the border over the past year, Homeland Security officials said Tuesday, detailing the record surge and what agents and officers did to stop it.
The Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy has done exactly what officials had hoped — convince illegal immigrants with bogus asylum claims to give up and return home, officials said this week, declaring the controversial policy a success.
President Trump’s border wall may eventually stop illegal immigrants, but right now it has created a new way for them to sneak into the U.S. thanks to the flurry of construction in Southern California.
The U.S. reached a deal with El Salvador on Monday granting more than 200,000 Salvadorans an additional year’s grace period before they would become illegal immigrants, in exchange for El Salvador’s cooperation in stemming this year’s border surge.
Homeland Security’s citizenship agency announced Friday it is streamlining the way migrants can apply for a discount on their immigration fees, saying that the old method unfairly gave an advantage to people living in some states.
DACA wasn’t supposed to be a pathway to citizenship, yet at least 14,000 illegal immigrant “Dreamers” managed to use the Obama-era deportation amnesty for exactly that purpose, the government revealed this week.
President Trump’s boast of building part of the border wall in Colorado is garnering attention in the state, including from the state’s governor, Democrat Jared Polis.
As many as 100 criminals a day are being released back onto the street in the Los Angeles area alone under California’s sanctuary city law, ICE’s top deportation official told Congress on Tuesday as he pleaded for lawmakers to do something.
The Justice Department announced Monday that it will require the Department of Homeland Security to collect DNA samples from the migrants it arrests, in a move that likely will add hundreds of thousands of names each year to the government’s criminal databases.
The Justice Department has brought more than 100,000 prosecutions for immigration-related border crimes in the past 12 months, setting an all-time record.
California’s governor announced Friday that he is pardoning three more immigrants facing the possibility they will be deported, continuing a string of such actions that challenge the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants who committed crimes.
Both men accused of a horrific gang-related murder in the Seattle area last week are illegal immigrants, ICE said Thursday, heaping more attention on the region’s sanctuary city policies.
The Justice Department set a record over the last year, prosecuting more criminal cases against illegal immigrants and migrant smugglers than any other year on record, officials announced Friday.
Senators gave a backhand approval Thursday to President Trump’s border emergency wall building plans by failing to override his veto, marking the latest instance when the White House has outmaneuvered Congress.
Congressional Democrats lashed out at President Trump on Wednesday over his border wall plans, saying they’ve learned he cut $129 million from funds to fight drug trafficking in Afghanistan and is spending it instead on the wall here at home.
The government’s citizenship chief said Wednesday that there’s no need to amend the Constitution to stop automatic citizenship being granted to immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally, though he said he’s not sure whether President Trump could act alone or if it would take a law from Congress.
New York authorities released a convicted child abuser into the community, defying an ICE request that he be held for deportation, and he went on to be arrested for yet another case of abuse, federal officials said Tuesday.
Prosecutors last week announced a second sanctuary city-related murder case involving an illegal immigrant in the Seattle area, but that has yet to shake local officials who despite the brutality of the slayings say they are not yet ready to begin working with ICE.
President Trump had been on a winning streak on immigration, but that progress is suddenly imperiled after a series of court setbacks and the departure of acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin K. McAleenan, the architect of much of the recent success.
President Trump’s proclamation declaring a border wall emergency is illegal, a federal judge in Texas ruled Friday, throwing a new hurdle in front of the government’s plans to build hundreds of miles of new barriers.
A federal judge on Friday blocked President Trump’s new rules requiring immigrants to prove they can support themselves, calling the administration’s plans “simply offensive.”
An illegal immigrant who’s been hiding in sanctuary in an Ohio church for the last two years said Friday she wants the Democratic presidential candidates, who are coming to the state for a debate next week, to come meet with her.
Homeland Security’s success in curbing the border crisis came at a cost: ICE saw its arrest numbers tumble over the last year, officials revealed Thursday, saying they had to pull personnel off their usual duties of tracking illegal immigrants and gangs to send them to the border.
The government’s top deportation official unloaded on a federal judge Thursday, accusing him of endangering American communities with a ruling late last month that curtailed ICE’s ability to ask local authorities to hold illegal immigrants for pickup.
An Oklahoma sheriff’s department defied ICE and released an accused rapist from jail this week — and within hours he was back at the door of his alleged victim, the agency said Thursday, saying the county’s sanctuary policy put the woman at risk.
Taxpayers could have to shell out nearly $23 billion a year to provide Obamacare coverage to illegal immigrants, according to a new analysis being released Thursday that puts a high price tag on one of the Democratic presidential candidates’ top election promises.
Police in the Seattle suburb of Bellevue had a chance to get Carlos Daniel Carillo-Lopez, an illegal immigrant, off the streets in March — but a local jail defied a deportation notification request from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and released him into the community.
Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said Wednesday that he’s “not surprised” he was shouted down by protesters during his speech at Georgetown University this week.
ICE said Tuesday it arrested an illegal immigrant who’d been making threats about trying to shoot deportation officers after repeatedly sneaking into — and being kicked out of — the U.S. Cesar Diaz-Rodriguez, 30, was snared in Houston on charges of illegal reentry.
Illegal immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border tumbled in September, officials said Tuesday, saying the administration has solved the migration crisis by stopping Central Americans before they ever reach the border.
Protesters shouted down acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan Monday morning, forcing him to cancel a speech he was trying to give at an immigration conference at Georgetown University Law Center.
Homeland Security spent millions of dollars on drug detection devices for use at the border even though the detectors can’t reliably spot the type of deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl that is pouring across the border, the department’s inspector general said in a report this week.
The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear arguments over whether a law prohibiting people from encouraging illegal immigration is so broad and vague that it would criminalize protected First Amendment speech.
Border agents nabbed an illegal immigrant this weekend after he crossed the border into Arizona using an ultralight aircraft, in yet another way technology is changing the face of illegal migration.
The American Civil Liberties Union went to court Thursday to demand the federal government pay damages to migrant families who were snared and separated by last year’s zero-tolerance border policy.
Stung by a public outcry, Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin C. Roessler Jr. announced Wednesday that he had canceled the suspension and restored to duty an officer who had turned an illegal immigrant over to ICE.
Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin C. Roessler Jr. said Tuesday he suspended an officer who cooperated with federal deportation officers by turning over an illegal immigrant he encountered during a traffic stop — a move the chief said violated department policy.
A federal appeals court expressed skepticism Tuesday over the Trump administration’s policymaking some asylum-seekers wait in Mexico, saying it’s troubling the government doesn’t even ask the migrants whether they might be in danger if they are forced back across the border.
The government’s special program granting a pathway to citizenship for immigrants who are victims of domestic abuse is rife with fraud, according to a new watchdog audit Monday that suggests migrants have figured out how to game the system.
The White House lashed out after Obama-appointed federal judges issued rulings undercut President Trump’s attempt to gain a handle on the migrant surge, derailing administration moves to give Homeland Security the power to detain and deport more people more quickly.
