President Donald Trump suggested Monday that his threat to ship immigrants to so-called sanctuary cities is taking effect, even though it remains unclear whether such a plan is feasible.
Read moreThe White House considered a plan to release detained immigrants into “sanctuary cities,” three people familiar with the idea confirmed Friday — a plan that critics branded as an effort to use migrants as pawns to go after political opponents.
Read moreMotel 6 will pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit with Washington state over claims that the motel chain regularly gave its guest lists to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
Read moreThe Italian news agency ANSA is reporting that another infant boy has died in Italy as the result of a circumcision performed at home.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court took up a challenge Monday over whether Kansas can prosecute undocumented workers who used other people’s Social Security numbers on everything from tax documents to apartment leases.
Read moreThe federal government’s immigration enforcement agency is using mass surveillance techniques to track immigrants and local police agencies are participating, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.
Read moreThe U.S. government said Tuesday it has expanded a program requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases proceed through immigration court. Officials also reported that 240 migrants seeking asylum have been returned to Mexico under the program.
Read moreAs tens of thousands of migrants, mostly from Central and South America, make their way through Mexico toward the United States, many of them don’t know what to expect. One advocate from Arizona is bringing technology to help.
Read moreThree attorneys claim in a federal lawsuit that the State Bar of Texas is using members’ mandatory dues to help undocumented immigrants seeking asylum, coercing lawyers to support its political agenda in violation of their free-speech rights.
Read moreFive Muslims accused immigration officials at a Florida detention facility of denying them access to the Quran and restricting prayer in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Read moreThe American dream lives in immigrants who, according to figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday, hold more college degrees than native-born citizens.
Read moreSeven slaughterhouse workers who were caught up in a workplace immigration raid in Tennessee last year filed a class action Thursday against the federal agents who carried it out, claiming they were racially profiled and arrested using a warrant that only authorized a search for documents.
Read moreOn the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Friday announcement that it will decide whether the 2020 census can ask a citizenship question, a federal judge in San Francisco blasted what he called Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’ disingenuous reasoning for including it.
Read moreThe San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to sue the federal government for releasing asylum-seeking families in the U.S. without temporary shelter or travel plans for reaching family members and sponsors across the country.
Read moreSeparating children from their parents at the border can easily be seen as a constitutional issue, a Fifth Circuit judge said Tuesday during a hearing about five children who were separated from their parents “indefinitely” after the parents were charged with misdemeanor offenses for crossing into the U.S. illegally.
Read moreBlocking the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 census, a federal judge blasted Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Tuesday with a ruling that says the Trump appointee “violated the public trust.”
Read moreA 28-year-old Mexican immigrant who had a heart attack and died in a truck just across the U.S. border might have just as easily “died while sitting at a table,” an attorney for the driver and his accomplice brother told a Fifth Circuit panel Friday.
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s fiery comments and immigration policies took center stage Wednesday on the second full day of a bench trial over the push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
Read moreIn a bipartisan effort, San Diego County’s mostly Republican Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday on a handful of measures to temporarily house asylum-seekers, including asking the state to reimburse local government for footing the bill.
Read moreThe push to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census will shrink an already undercounted group of immigrants in the decennial survey and weaken the political power of areas with a high concentration of non-citizens, a survey expert testified in federal court Monday.
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