A Ninth Circuit judge on Wednesday demanded the Trump administration explain how its policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico squares with its duty not to send immigrants to places where they fear persecution.
Read moreMexican police and immigration agents detained hundreds of Central American migrants Monday in the largest single raid on a migrant caravan since the groups started moving through the country last year.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Wednesday scheduled a hearing for next week on whether to stop the Trump administration from forcing asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for their immigration court hearings.
Read moreA federal judge ruled against the Trump administration’s policy of forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while immigration officials process their cases.
Read morePresident Donald Trump held a roundtable discussion Friday ahead of his tour of a newly fortified 30-foot, 2.5-mile section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Calexico, California, capping off a week of pushback by California’s elected leaders against the president’s immigration policies.
Read moreAbandoning his threat to seal the southern border immediately, President Trump warned instead on Thursday that he’d slap tariffs on cars coming to the U.S. from Mexico unless the Mexicans do more to stop the flow of migrants and drugs to the U.S.
Read moreThe American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday asked a judge in California to block the Trump administration from building a border wall using funds obtained through his national emergency declaration.
Read moreA House panel has authorized a lawsuit over President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.
Read morePresident Trump eased up on his threats to close the southern border as officials across his administration explored half-measures that might satisfy the president’s urge for action, like stopping only foot traffic at certain crossings.
Read morePresident Trump’s threat to shut down the southern border raised fears Monday of dire economic consequences in the U.S. and an upheaval of daily life in a stretch of the country that relies on the international flow not just of goods and services but also students, families and workers.
Read moreThreatening drastic action against Mexico, President Donald Trump declared he is likely to shut down America’s southern border next week unless Mexican authorities immediately halt all illegal immigration.
Read moreThe number of immigrant families and children entering the United States from Mexico is so high that Border Patrol is releasing them immediately instead of transferring them to the agency responsible for their release, forcing local governments to help coordinate their housing, meals and travel.
Read moreFederal prosecutors say members of the Mexican Mafia formed an alliance with a drug trafficking organization in Michoacan, Mexico, to sell methamphetamine and marijuana in the United States, but during opening arguments Thursday defense attorneys told jurors a federal informant was the ringleader and was paid by the government the entire time.
Read moreWhen he implicated six FIFA media partners in 2017, a cooperating witness in the corruption scandal brought legal trouble to the doors of the largest mass-media company in the Spanish-speaking world.
Read moreA little over a month after an anonymous juror in the trial of convicted Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman spoke to VICE News about their experience sitting on the case, Guzman’s lawyers have filed a motion for a new trial.
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Foreshadowing a potential injunction against another Trump administration immigration policy, a federal judge suggested Friday that
Read moreThe Mexican government said Thursday it will use buoys to mark the reserve of the world’s most endangered marine mammal, in a bid to save the last remaining 10 or so vaquita marina porpoises.
Read moreA federal judge in San Francisco will scrutinize the Trump administration’s policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico during a court hearing Friday to help him decide whether to block the practice.
Read moreScheduling glitches led an immigration judge to deny the Trump administration’s request to order four Central American immigrants deported because they failed to show for initial hearings Wednesday in the U.S. while being forced to wait in Mexico.
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