Tag: Immigration policy
In inaugural address, Biden will appeal to national unity
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden will deliver an appeal to national unity when he is sworn in Wednesday and plans immediate moves to...
Biden outlines ‘Day One’ agenda of executive actions
WASHINGTON (AP) — In his first hours as president, Joe Biden plans to take executive action to roll back some of the most controversial...
Biden to prioritize legal status for millions of immigrants
SAN DIEGO (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden's decision to immediately ask Congress to offer legal status to an estimated 11 million people in the...
Honduran migrants trek north toward Guatemalan border
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (AP) — Hundreds of migrants hoping to reach the U.S. border gathered outside a bus station in this Honduran city...
Watchdog: DOJ bungled ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department leaders under President Donald Trump knew their 2018 “zero tolerance” border policy would result in family separations but pressed...
Denmark to hold impeachment trial vote on ex-minister
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark's ruling party said it would back a vote in parliament Thursday on whether a former immigration minister in the...
Trump Homeland Security chief abruptly quits at tense time
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s acting head of the Department of Homeland Security abruptly resigned Monday, leaving the post ahead of schedule as...
US judge blocks Trump administration’s sweeping asylum rules
PHOENIX (AP) — A U.S. judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s most sweeping set of asylum restrictions less than two weeks before President-elect...
Trump extends visa ban; court clears health insurance rule
SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday extended pandemic-related bans on green cards and work visas to large groups of applicants through...
Immigrants get help from states, cheer inclusion in US bill
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Lily Guido was having trouble hearing and she felt warm while talking to her co-worker at a California nursing...
Trump leaves mark on immigration policy, some of it lasting
WASHINGTON (AP) — When President Donald Trump was running for reelection, foreign-born U.S. residents were rushing to get their American citizenship before it might...
The Latest: Biden says months to fix Trump border policies
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Mexican president defends restrictive immigration policies
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Thursday defended Mexico’s restrictive immigration policy, which has prevented many Central American migrants...
US plans family deportations, including girl with broken arm
HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. government is preparing to deport more than a dozen children and their parents held at a Texas immigration detention...
California’s growth rate at record low as more people leave
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — More people are leaving California than moving here, continuing a trend that coupled with fewer births has slowed the growth...
Birth on a riverbank: Woman’s ordeal shows risks at border
HOUSTON (AP) — The Honduran woman walked alone through the dark brush of the South Texas borderlands after being pushed across a nearby river...
UK steps up compensation for victims of immigration scandal
LONDON (AP) — Britain will step up compensation for thousands of long-term U.K. residents originally from the Caribbean who were wrongly caught up in...
Biden’s Homeland Security pick faces questions on 2015 probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time Alejandro Mayorkas faced Senate confirmation, not a single Republican voted for him because there was an open investigation...
Biden’s Homeland Security pick faces questions on 2015 probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — The last time Alejandro Mayorkas faced Senate confirmation, not a single Republican voted for him because there was an open investigation...
EU warns Bosnia to help migrants as entire families on move
VELIKA KLADUSA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Entire migrant families are on the move in cold winter weather in Bosnia while trying to reach the West...
Biden adjusting agenda to reflect narrow divide in Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is adjusting the scope of his agenda to meet the challenges of governing with a narrowly divided Congress...
Search persists for parents of 628 kids separated at border
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A court-appointed committee has yet to find the parents of 628 children separated at the border early in the Trump...
Uproar in France over proposed limits on filming police
PARIS (AP) — French activists fear that a proposed new security law will deprive them of a potent weapon against abuse — cellphone videos...
US will appeal order barring expulsions of migrant children
HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. government on Wednesday appealed a judge's order barring the expulsions of immigrant children who crossed the border alone, a...
Police: Suspect in church stabbings has criminal history
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A man suspected in the fatal stabbings of two people and the wounding of three others at a San Francisco...
US agrees for now to stop deporting women who alleged abuse
HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. government has agreed temporarily not to deport detained immigrant women who have alleged being abused by a rural Georgia...
Report: Mobile fingerprinting a core tool in US deportations
BOSTON (AP) — A mobile fingerprinting app U.S. immigration agents use to run remote ID checks in the field has become a core tool...
Ex-Homeland Security official Mayorkas returns under Biden
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is turning to a veteran of the Department of Homeland Security to lead the agency created after the...
Lawyers: Children detained at border facing COVID exposure
HOUSTON (AP) — Border Patrol agents are detaining about 65 immigrant children at a station in South Texas in conditions that don't control the...
Federal judge blocks new criminal disqualifiers to asylum
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked a Trump administration rule about to take effect that would have put up new...
California inmate fought wildfires, now faces deportation
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Among the thousands of firefighters who battled record-setting wildfires in California this year was Bounchan Keola, a 39-year-old immigrant from...
Judge orders US to stop expelling children who cross border
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to stop expelling immigrant children who cross the southern border alone, halting...
Mexico to stop holding child migrants in detention centers
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The United Nations and other organizations are applauding changes to Mexico’s immigration law that would prohibit holding migrant children in...
US deports migrant women who alleged abuse by Georgia doctor
HOUSTON (AP) — The Trump administration is trying to deport several women who allege they were mistreated by a Georgia gynecologist at an immigration...
Some big, early shifts on immigration expected under Biden
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some dramatic moves on immigration are expected in the early days of the Biden administration. Joe Biden will likely use executive...
Some big, early shifts on immigration expected under Biden
WASHINGTON (AP) — Some dramatic moves on immigration are expected in the early days of the Biden administration. Joe Biden will likely use executive...
China, Iran join queue to scrutinize US at UN rights body
GENEVA (AP) — The United States faced its first review in five years at the U.N.’s main human rights body on Monday, with the...
Agency strips bargaining powers of immigration judges’ union
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal labor authority Tuesday ruled to strip the collective bargaining powers of a national union representing more than 450...
US judge blocks Trump immigration rule on public benefits
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge in Chicago struck down a key immigration rule Monday that would deny green cards to immigrants who use...
Report: US knew of problems family separation would cause
HOUSTON (AP) — Months before the Trump administration separated thousands of families at the U.S.-Mexico border, a “pilot program” in Texas left child-welfare officials...
Migrants quickly expelled by Trump try repeatedly to cross
TECATE, Calif. (AP) — Edgar Alexis Lopez looks well-rested in photos he took before crossing the border illegally in mountains east of San Diego,...
Under Trump, US no longer leads world on refugee protections
For decades, America led the world in humanitarian policies by creating a sanctuary for the oppressed, admitting more refugees annually than all other countries...
Top Trump adviser wants more nations to field asylum claims
SAN DIEGO (AP) — One of President Donald Trump's top priorities on immigration if he wins a second term would be to use agreements...
Trump administration adds criminal disqualifiers to asylum
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday that asylum-seekers will lose their bids if they are convicted of driving under the influence...
High court to review two cases involving Trump border policy
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear two cases involving Trump administration policies at the U.S.-Mexico border: one about a...
Black immigrants find camaraderie, divide amid protests
Inspired by the global protests against systemic racism and police brutality, Nigerian American blogger Nifesimi Akingbe donned a black shirt that read “I am...
A look at Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s notable opinions, votes
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, has written roughly 100 opinions in more than three years on...
Biden, Harris aim to tip battleground Arizona for Democrats
PHOENIX (AP) — Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, are campaigning together Thursday for the first time since the Democratic National Convention...
Trump administration turns to immigration as vote nears
WASHINGTON (AP) — It had the ingredients of a President Donald Trump campaign speech: dangerous immigrants, attacks on Democrat-run cities, even a mention of...
Trump administration to sharply limit skilled-worker visas
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced plans Tuesday to sharply limit visas for skilled workers from overseas, a move officials said was a...
Appeals court upholds ban on holding migrant kids in hotels
HOUSTON (AP) — An appeals court refused Sunday to allow the Trump administration to resume detaining immigrant children in hotel rooms before expelling them...
VP Pence ordered borders closed after CDC experts refused
NEW YORK (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence in March directed the nation’s top disease control agency to use its emergency powers to effectively...
Melania Trump praises care at detention centers in tape
WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Melania Trump expressed support for the care that migrant children separated from their families received in U.S. detention centers,...
California governor vetoes bill to aid low-income immigrants
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have authorized California to give low-income immigrants $600 to buy groceries.
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California governor vetoes bill that sought to give $600 to low-income immigrants to buy...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California governor vetoes bill that sought to give $600 to low-income immigrants to buy groceries.
A look at Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s notable opinions, votes
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, has been on the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals since 2017.
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Lawmakers who toured Georgia detention site raise concerns
Several members of Congress called for a detention facility in Georgia to be shut down pending investigation after women detainees told them of being...
Migrant women to no longer see doctor accused of misconduct
HOUSTON (AP) — Immigration authorities have stopped sending detained women to a rural Georgia gynecologist accused of performing surgeries without consent, a government spokesman...
More migrant women say they didn’t OK surgery in detention
HOUSTON (AP) — Sitting across from her lawyer at an immigration detention center in rural Georgia, Mileidy Cardentey Fernandez unbuttoned her jail jumpsuit to...
New California law expands tax credit for immigrants
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will give tax breaks to more immigrants — including those living in the country illegally — under a new...
Biden courts Latino voters in 1st trip to Florida as nominee
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Joe Biden made his first trip to Florida as the Democratic presidential nominee with an urgent mission to boost support...
Biden courts Latino voters in 1st trip to Florida as nominee
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — Joe Biden made his first trip to Florida as the Democratic presidential nominee on Tuesday with an urgent mission to...
Democrats to investigate forced surgery claims in Georgia
ATLANTA (AP) — Leading congressional Democrats reacted furiously Tuesday to lightly substantiated claims that immigrants held at a detention center in Georgia are undergoing...
Mexico diverted money from development to contain migration
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Under pressure from the United States to reduce migration, the Mexican government diverted money from a fund intended to spur...
Judge orders US to stop detaining migrant children in hotels
HOUSTON (AP) — A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Friday to stop detaining immigrant children in hotels before expelling them from the...
Trump administration plans expanded use of personal data
WASHINGTON (AP) — The...
US detaining more migrant children in hotels despite outcry
HOUSTON (AP) — The...
Trump: Acting homeland security secretary will lead agency
WASHINGTON (AP) — President...
Takeaways from GOP convention: Power, positivity and policy
WASHINGTON (AP) — The...
Watchdog: Homeland Security officials were wrongly appointed
WASHINGTON (AP) — The...
Private prison industry backs Trump, prepares if Biden wins
HOUSTON (AP) — Executives...
Joe Arpaio defeated in what’s likely his last political race
PHOENIX (AP) — This...
4 poultry plant execs indicted after 2019 immigration raid
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Seeking refuge in US, children fleeing danger are expelled
HOUSTON (AP) — When...
Former President Bush pays tribute to immigrants in new book
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Trump administration won’t accept new DACA applications
CHICAGO (AP) — The...
Despite judge’s order, migrant kids remain in ICE custody
HOUSTON (AP) — The...
US won’t expel migrant children detained in Texas hotel
HOUSTON (AP) — The...
US sued over expulsion of migrant children detained in hotel
HOUSTON (AP) — Legal...
Monitor calls on US to stop detaining migrant kids in hotels
HOUSTON (AP) — A...
House OKs repeal of Trump travel ban decried as anti-Muslim
The House on Wednesday...
Judge declines to order release of detained migrant families
HOUSTON (AP) — A...
AP Exclusive: Migrant kids held in US hotels, then expelled
HOUSTON (AP) — The...
Trump’s new immigration fight: how to redraw House districts
WASHINGTON (AP) — President...
Trump offers confusion, contradictions on immigration order
WASHINGTON (AP) — President...
Asylum rules test Trump’s legal skills to make new policy
SAN DIEGO (AP) —...
Judge delays deadline to free detained migrant children
HOUSTON (AP) — A...
Doctors not part of DHS review of migrant children’s deaths
HOUSTON (AP) — A...
Trump administration rescinds rule on foreign students
BOSTON (AP) — Facing...
Foreign students weigh studying in person vs. losing visas
PHOENIX (AP) — International...
Border authorities use pandemic powers to expel immigrants
SAN DIEGO (AP) —...
Mexico president heads to Washington for meeting with Trump
MEXICO CITY (AP) —...
Greece: Migrant children head to Portugal after appeal to EU
ATHENS, Greece (AP) —...
Immigration judges in lawsuit say US government muzzles them
Immigration judges said in...
Drive-up US citizenship eases backlog, but new threat looms
DETROIT (AP) — A...
Congress stalls out — again — dealing with national trauma
WASHINGTON (AP) — For...
Judge: US must free migrant children from family detention
HOUSTON (AP) — A...
