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A preliminary investigation has punctured the horrific claim that a doctor was performing “mass” hysterectomies on migrant women at an ICE facility in Georgia, with just two procedures performed over the last four years, a top official told Congress on Thursday.
Federal agents say they finally have caught an undocumented immigrant they’ve been after for several years but who was released 10 times by police in New York under sanctuary city policies.
More stash houses means there’s a glut of migrants who have managed to sneak across the border, but it also means the smugglers are having a tricky time getting them deeper into the U.S., officials said. That’s created a pileup of migrants in U.S. border areas.
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to stop using hotels to hold migrant children and families caught at the border during the coronavirus pandemic, ruling that the conditions aren’t good enough.
Federal agents nabbed nearly 50,000 illegal immigrants along the southern border in August, marking the worst month in a year as the clampdown that had accompanied the coronavirus pandemic begins to fade.
Homeland Security announced Tuesday that it is working on a new rule to use eye scans, voice patterns or facial identity to verify migrants’ identities, saying the tools are needed to screen out bogus applicants.
Deportation officers moved into communities in a summertime surge to catch undocumented immigrants, netting more than 2,000 people they said were responsible for victimizing more than 1,900 people in their neighborhoods.
The Border Patrol followed policy in deploying tear gas to stop caravans of migrants who breached the border en masse in 2018 and 2019, an audit found — though the agency didn’t properly certify all of the agents who used less-lethal force in those incidents.
The Los Angeles County sheriff’s new policy banning his department from turning over any illegal immigrant criminals to ICE, no matter how serious the crimes, will result in innocent people — often migrants themselves — being killed or raped, Homeland Security’s No. 2 official said.
The man who stabbed a New York City police officer in early June was an illegal immigrant from Bosnia who was motivated by support for violent Islamic extremism, the Justice Department revealed Wednesday in bringing charges against the man.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said Tuesday that it will avert a massive furlough of its workforce — but the price will be severe cuts to services, including delaying naturalizations.
The government’s facilities that detain migrant children are running at just 7% capacity during coronavirus, officials revealed this week, as Homeland Security and the Health and Human Services Department work to try to prevent a devastating outbreak.
An illegal immigrant caught at the border last month while infected with the coronavirus died Monday, Homeland Security said.
Federal prosecutors hauled an illegal immigrant to court Monday on charges of unlawful possession of a firearm after police said they saw him pull out a handgun and shoot it in the sky, near where police and media helicopters were circling, during racial justice protests in May.
The government’s legal immigration agency said Monday that it will give strict scrutiny to DACA recipients who try to use a backdoor path to citizenship, as the Department of Homeland Security finalized plans for restarting the program after a Supreme Court decision this summer.
President Trump has overseen the strictest immigration policy of any president in modern political times, and Hispanic community leaders have said that will kill his chances to attract Hispanic voters.
The illegal immigrant mother Democrats used Wednesday as a case study of cruelty in President Trump’s policies was first deported during the Clinton administration, then flagged for deportation again under the Obama-Biden administration.
Leading Democrats called on the top two officials at Homeland Security to step down after Congress’s watchdog ruled they were both illegally installed in their jobs, and called into question all the weighty decisions the two men have made in the months since they took office.
Federal prosecutors charged a Border Patrol agent Monday with drug smuggling after they tracked him making a run from the border in to Phoenix and dropping off packages that agents later found to be filled with cocaine, heroin and fentanyl.
Border Patrol agents said Monday that they found more than $300,000 in methamphetamine that had just been dropped by an ultralight aircraft that sneaked over the border in southern California.
A new book by former President George W. Bush will highlight an issue that now sets him apart from many of his fellow Republicans — immigration.
Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan on Friday said presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden is telling illegal immigrants and drug cartels that it will essentially be open season if he’s elected president.
An incomplete tunnel found stretching from Arizona to Mexico appears to be “the most sophisticated tunnel in U.S. history,” authorities said.
The administration’s top border official said Thursday that illegal immigrants have a duty to the world to stop coming to the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying some of them are making the trip knowing they have the disease and risk spreading it far and wide.
Homeland Security is building the border wall faster than ever before, the department’s border chief said Thursday.
A federal judge set an exceptionally fast schedule Wednesday in a case challenging President Trump’s new executive memo deleting immigrants who are in the country illegally from the upcoming census apportionment count, saying he fears immigrants may stop replying to the census as long as the order is out there.
An illegal immigrant succumbed this weekend to injuries from a fall from the border wall in Arizona, federal authorities said Sunday.
The man who designed the method Homeland Security uses to estimate the number of illegal immigrants says there’s just too much margin for error to use it to carry out President Trump’s new executive order to strip illegal immigrants out of the census count used to apportion congressional seats.
The Supreme Court said Friday that President Trump can continue to build the border wall even as legal challenges work their way through lower courts, rejecting a demand by the ACLU and environmental groups for an immediate halt.
Matthew Albence, who’s led U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over the last 15 months, overseeing an agency at the center of the national immigration debate — and increasingly under attack by Democrats — will retire at the end of August.
A federal judge issued an injunction Wednesday blocking the Trump administration’s “public charge” rule aimed at making immigrants self-sufficient, ruling it would not be safe to try to punish migrants for using welfare or other benefits during the coronavirus pandemic.
Attorney General William P. Barr has finally revoked an Obama-era Justice Department legal opinion used to give legal backing to the DACA program.
The Trump administration announced a major rewrite of DACA on Tuesday, saying it will keep the program going — for now — but all new applications will be rejected and those renewing their status will be limited to just one year.
As COVID-19 cases surge across the border, new questions are being asked about the nexus of immigration and the spread of the coronavirus.
The House on Friday passed a first tranche of 2021 spending bills to fund parts of the federal government past September, with Democrats eager to lay down markers and push back on President Trump on issues ranging from the U.S.-Mexico border wall to the Confederate flag.
A federal judge rejected a demand for to free all illegal immigrant families being held in detention during coronavirus, ruling Wednesday that even with heightened risks of the disease in detention facilities, it was too far of a leap to do a “blanket release.”
President Trump signed an executive action on Tuesday to prevent illegal immigrants from being included in the 2020 census for congressional apportionment, saying the U.S. shouldn’t give political power “to people who should not be here at all.”
