As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, many elected officials in Republican and Democratic states are preparing to either aid or oppose his policies
January 12, 2025
Trump border czar privately tempers Republican lawmaker expectations on administration’s initial deportation operation
January 11, 2025
15 years after Haiti earthquake, survivor fights to make U.S. his permanent home
January 11, 2025
Newly in the minority, Democrats voted with Republicans on Thursday to advance legislation that would require federal authorities to detain unauthorized immigrants who have been accused of certain crimes — signaling that they will try and find spots to work with President-elect Donald Trump while simultaneously trying to block much of his agenda
January 09, 2025
Democrats join with Republicans to take major step toward Senate passage of GOP-led immigration bill
January 09, 2025
For many Americans, stricter immigration policy is not enough. Many would justify civilian and government violence against immigrants to seal the southern US border.
January 06, 2025
As Democratic governors across the country adapt to President-elect Donald Trump’s plans, some are trying to build a friendly relationship while others are strategizing ways to resist
January 08, 2025
Schools around the country are reviewing what to do if immigration agents come knocking as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office after campaigning on a pledge to deport millions of people
January 07, 2025
GOP-led immigration legislation passes House in first bill of new Congress, but faces uncertain future in Senate
January 07, 2025
Two weeks ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration, Mexico continues dissolving attention-grabbing migrant caravans and dispersing migrants throughout the country to keep them far from the U.S. border, while simultaneously limiting how many accumulate in any one place
January 07, 2025
More Americans say immigration should be a top focus for the U.S. government in 2025, as the country heads toward a new Republican administration in which President-elect Donald Trump has promised the mass deportations of migrants and an end to birthright citizenship
January 07, 2025
The number of migrants arrested illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in December was lower than when President-elect Donald Trump ended his first term in 2020
January 07, 2025
Trump’s push for quick passage of ‘one powerful bill’ meets realities on Capitol Hill
January 06, 2025
Novak Djokovic says he still feels a bit of trauma when he travels to Australia
January 06, 2025
Austria could soon have its first government led by the far right since World War II
January 06, 2025
U.S.
January 05, 2025
Republicans are stepping up their scrutiny of dozens of shelters run by aid groups on the U.S. border with Mexico
January 05, 2025
Mexico opens possibility of receiving non-Mexican deportees from Trump
January 04, 2025It took police more than a week to publicly identify 57-year-old Debrina Kawam as the woman who was fatally set on fire in a New York subway train on Dec. 22
January 03, 2025
Dominican Republic deported more than 276,000 people in 2024
January 02, 2025
Trump falsely links New Orleans terror attack to migrants after erroneous Fox News report
January 02, 2025
The European Union could submit a proposal as soon as March on the creation of so-called 'return hubs' to expedite the removal of illegal migrants, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson
January 02, 2025
There were roughly 46.1 million people employed in Germany in 2024 on an annual average, the highest number since German reunification, the statistics office said on Thursday.
January 02, 2025
The incoming US president is intent on pushing through policies that may provoke Mexico to respond with tariffs of their own − or other measures that would hurt American consumers and US interests.
December 31, 2024
Hundreds of migrants waited in long lines outside an immigration office in southern Mexico on Monday, hoping to secure safe passage north and enter the U.S.
December 30, 2024
Chancellor Olaf Scholz appealed to his fellow Germans to vote in snap elections in February as the country argues over immigration and the rise of the far-right Alternative for
December 30, 2024
Trump defends foreign worker visas, siding with Musk amid MAGA backlash
December 28, 2024
She was set on fire and no one knows her name. How homelessness, crime and a broken immigration system met in a subway car
December 29, 2024
An online spat between factions of Donald Trump’s supporters over immigration and the tech industry has thrown internal divisions in the president-elect’s political movement into public display
December 27, 2024
CalMatters shares insights about Trump's mass deportation plans in terms of the risk federal financial aid applications for college present to students with undocumented parents.
December 23, 2024
Guatemala is open to receiving
December 26, 2024
Spanish King Felipe VI has used his traditional Christmas Eve speech to remember the victims of the catastrophic Valencia flash floods
December 24, 2024President-elect Donald Trump won a return to the White House in part by promising big changes in economic policy — more tax cuts, huge tariffs on imports, mass deportations of immigrants working in the United States illegally
December 23, 2024
A spontaneous memorial created by grieving families and local residents at a church overlooking Magdeburg's Christmas market evolved during Saturday
December 21, 2024
A sheriff in rural, coastal Oregon says he's concerned about letters asking residents to collect information on immigrants
December 20, 2024
Gang-related kidnapping at apartment puts Colorado city back in national immigration debate
December 18, 2024
The European Union and Switzerland - the bloc's fourth largest export market - reached a political deal on Friday to overhaul their trade ties, setting in motion a lengthy approval
December 20, 2024
A court in Sicily is expected to announce its verdict on whether Italy’s vice premier, Matteo Salvini, is guilty of illegally detaining 100 migrants aboard a humanitarian rescue ship when he was interior minister
December 20, 2024
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it deported more than 270,000 people over a recent 12-month period, the highest annual tally in a decade
December 19, 2024
Biden carried out the highest level of deportations since 2014, new report says
December 19, 2024
Donald Trump has said he plans to end birthright citizenship as part of his promised crackdown on immigration when he becomes president on Jan. 20.
December 19, 2024
Trump’s border czar says he’ll need funding and at least 100K beds to carry out deportation plans
December 19, 2024
By Ted Hesson, Ben Kellerman and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump plans to launch a mass deportation operation targeting millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally and
December 18, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump is threatening tariffs on Mexico and Canada as he seeks to portray them as responsible for illegal immigration and drug smuggling
November 26, 2024
Some parts of Trump’s deportation plan may be ‘Obama-esque.’ There’s a reason for that
December 18, 2024
Mayotte was already struggling with overcrowding, illness and poverty before a devastating cyclone hit the French island territory at the
December 18, 2024
Four Canadian ministers publicly unveiled on Tuesday a border security plan they had privately presented to U.S.
December 17, 2024
Democratic-led states that have vowed to challenge President-elect Donald Trump's initiatives will face a tough legal landscape after his first-term appointments reshaped
December 17, 2024
China extends visa-free transit policy to 10 days as part of efforts to lure more foreign tourists
December 17, 2024
Fact check: Trump makes false claims about immigration, tariffs and global conflicts
December 16, 2024
Ohio's Republican secretary of state and attorney general sought to reassure voters before the November election that the state's elections were being vigorously protected against the possibility of immigrants voting illegally
December 15, 2024
Prosecutors in Texas will seek the death penalty for two Venezuelan men who are accused of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl after they entered the U.S. illegally
December 13, 2024
Trump has threatened the visas of international student protesters. A post-grad at risk shares his fears
December 13, 2024
Sweeping deportations pledged by President-elect Donald Trump could pose an economic shock for the restaurant industry in ways that echo the pandemic: pricier menus,
December 13, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump discussed childhood vaccines, his deportation plans and Ukraine's use of U.S.-supplied missiles in a lengthy Time
December 12, 2024
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump will use the U.S. military to the fullest extent of the law to support his mass deportation effort, he told TIME magazine in an interview
December 12, 2024
The European Union revoked a visa-free travel agreement with a country over its 'golden passport' program for the first time on Thursday, ending the
December 12, 2024
Americans have grown less welcoming toward immigrants living in the U.S. illegally since Donald Trump's first presidency but remain wary of harsh
December 12, 2024
New Zealand's Associate Immigration Minister Chris Penk has overturned a visa refusal for the U_S_ conservative commentator Candace Owens, citing “the importance of free speech."
December 12, 2024
Democratic senators are urging President Joe Biden to extend temporary protections for migrants in the U.S. before he leaves office
December 11, 2024
The sheriff of the nation’s fifth-largest county on Tuesday defied a new policy to limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, setting up a showdown over a new obstacle to President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans
December 11, 2024
Nearly a decade after hundreds of thousands of Syrians arrived in Germany, many are now well-integrated and settled in jobs — and tens of thousands have gained German citizenship
December 10, 2024
Why the US has birthright citizenship and how Trump could challenge it
December 10, 2024Governors and lawmakers in Republican-led states are rolling out plans that could aid President-elect Donald Trump's effort to deport millions of people living in the U.S. illegally
December 10, 2024
Croatia said it had temporarily suspended asylum applications from Syrians, following the lead of other European governments, after rebels ousted President Bashar al-Assad after 13 years
December 10, 2024
The Swiss government said it was suspending asylum procedures for Syrians until it can better assess the situation in the Middle Eastern country following the capture of Damascus by
December 10, 2024
United States and Guatemalan authorities have announced the arrest of six people charged with human smuggling linked to a semi-trailer truck crash in Mexico in 2021 that killed more than 50 migrants
December 09, 2024
Key lines: Trump’s ‘not playing games,’ he says in interview laying out 100-day agenda
December 09, 2024European countries put asylum applications from Syrians on hold until further notice on Monday after rebels seized the Syrian capital and President Bashar al-Assad
December 09, 2024
U.S.
December 08, 2024
Trump lays out sweeping early acts on deportation and January 6 pardons, says Cheney and others ‘should go to jail’
December 08, 2024
Donald Trump says he can’t guarantee his promised tariffs on key U.S. foreign trade partners won’t raise prices for American consumers
December 08, 2024
Fact check: Trump, repeating old lies on ‘Meet the Press,’ falsely claims US is the only country with birthright citizenship
December 08, 2024The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Saturday nominated co-leader Alice Weidel as its first chancellor candidate in the party's 11-year history, setting out
December 07, 2024
Andre Iwan and his wife moved to a village in Hungary from eastern Germany a few months ago, complaining of high taxes and a
December 06, 2024
Mexico wants a deal with Trump to avoid receiving non-Mexican deportees
December 06, 2024
Chinatowns once served as gateways for early Chinese immigrants. But the suburbs are the center of cultural and commercial life for new immigrants and later generations.
August 01, 2023African immigrant writers possess particularly acute insights into the way race and racism affect daily life in the US.
October 06, 2023
The U.S. will offer migrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under then-President Donald Trump temporary legal status and other benefits while barring similar
April 26, 2024
Chicago’s new police chief says the city’s use of police stations as temporary housing for thousands of migrants seeking asylum has been a “burden” on the nation’s second-largest police department
October 18, 2023
Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged on Thursday to deliver on his priorities to rebuild Britain by offering voters targets for improved
December 04, 2024
The monthly number of Chinese migrants crossing through Panama's Darién Gap jungle has risen this year as more people from the world's most populous country look to immigrate to the U.S. The number has risen from 913 in January to 2,588 in September
October 30, 2023
As nationalist leader Marine Le Pen orchestrated the overthrow of France's government on Wednesday, several thousand people lined up
December 05, 2024
The Biden administration is urging an appeals court to allow sweeping new restrictions on asylum to stay in place, warning that halting them would be “highly disruptive” at the border
November 08, 2023
Canada's fiscal targets over the next few years will be tougher to achieve as a promised Christmas handout last month by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau amplifies
December 05, 2024
The Biden administration’s plan to build new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border in South Texas calls for a “movable” design that frustrates both environmentalists and advocates of stronger border enforcement
November 11, 2023
A U.S. judge on Thursday rejected a bid by Texas to block federal immigration authorities from destroying razor wire fencing that the state placed along the border with
April 26, 2024
A new study says that about half of Nicaragua's population of 6.2 million want to leave their homeland because of a mix of economic decline and repression from President Daniel Ortega's government
November 30, 2023
The jungle between Colombia and Panama used to be impenetrable for migrants heading north from Latin America
December 17, 2023
Time slipping, White House and Senate negotiators are struggling to reach a U.S. border security deal that would unlock President Joe Biden’s request for billions of dollars worth in military aid for Ukraine and national security
December 17, 2023
President Joe Biden’s push to have Congress replenish wartime aid for Ukraine as part of a deal on border and immigration policy changes will almost certainly drag into next year
December 19, 2023
A proposal by U.S.
December 04, 2024
Amid grueling negotiations between senators and the White House, the contours of a bipartisan border security and immigration deal are beginning to take shape
December 21, 2023
Mexico's president says he is willing to help with a crush of migrants that led to the closure of border crossings with the United States
December 22, 2023
A new program that allows groups of U.S. citizens to name the specific refugees they would like to sponsor to come to America is giving a family in Texas hope of a reunification
December 26, 2023
Thousands of people from a 4,000-strong migrant caravan that has been crossing southern Mexico by foot since Christmas Eve dispersed on Tuesday as they
July 02, 2024
Mexico has increased immigration enforcement in recent weeks
January 07, 2024
Canada has announced a two-year cap on international student visas to ease the pressure on housing, health care and other services at a time of record immigration
January 22, 2024The Biden administration is renewing demands for Texas to give Border Patrol access to a riverfront park that is a popular corridor for migrants illegally entering the U.S. A letter sent Tuesday to Texas officials continues a clash between the state and the Biden administration over immigration enforcement
January 24, 2024
A bipartisan Senate deal to pair border enforcement measures and Ukraine aid faces potential collapse
January 25, 2024
U.S. authorities say arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico reached an all-time high in December since monthly numbers have been released, exposing a growing vulnerability for President Joe Biden in his campaign for a second term
January 27, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has praised Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for defying the Biden administration over immigration
January 28, 2024
President Joe Biden has made some strong claims about shutting down the U.S.-Mexico border over the past few days
January 29, 2024
Senate leaders are attempting to push forward a deal to pair new policies at the southern border with wartime aid for Ukraine and other American allies, but they will have to overcome heavy skepticism from Republicans
February 01, 2024
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is heading back to the Eagle Pass border to highlight his escalating attempts to curb illegal crossings on the U.S.-Mexico border
February 04, 2024
A bipartisan border security bill headed to a U.S.
July 02, 2024
The House of Representatives is gearing up to decide whether to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
February 06, 2024
A bipartisan $118 billion U.S.
April 26, 2024
Efforts by Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott to stem a record number of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has set off a series of legal battles with
April 26, 2024
The Republican-controlled House is set to vote on whether to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S.-Mexico border
February 13, 2024
The White House is considering using provisions of federal immigration law repeatedly tapped by former President Donald Trump to unilaterally enact a sweeping crackdown at the southern border
February 22, 2024
Buses dropped off hundreds of migrants at a San Diego bus stop instead of at a reception center that had been serving as a staging area because it ran out of local funding sooner than expected
February 23, 2024
Federal authorities say the brother of a man who is charged with killing a Georgia nursing student has been accused of presenting a fake green card to police
February 24, 2024
President Joe Biden will travel to the U.S.-Mexico border this week
February 26, 2024
Students at two Georgia colleges are grappling with the killing of a nursing student killed in a violent act that Republicans including former President Donald Trump and Gov. Brian Kemp blamed on the immigration policies of President Joe Biden
February 26, 2024
The suspect in the killing of a nursing student on the University of Georgia campus used an object as a weapon in the crime, and he’s also accused of “disfiguring her skull."
February 27, 2024
The killing of nursing student in Georgia has become an issue in the 2024 presidential campaign
February 27, 2024
Canada will reinstate some visa requirements for Mexican nationals from Thursday to stem the flow of asylum seekers from the Latin American country, the Canadian immigration
April 26, 2024
Family, friends and classmates of a nursing student found slain on the University of Georgia campus plan to gather to say farewell
March 01, 2024
A Venezuelan man who became the subject of national attention for allegedly kicking a police officer in Times Square, then flipping off news cameras on his way out of court, was cleared of wrongdoing on Friday
March 02, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court has temporarily halted a new Texas law that allows police to arrest migrants who enter the country illegally
March 04, 2024
A U.S. judge in Texas on Friday rejected a challenge by Republican-led states to a Biden administration program that allows hundreds of thousands of
April 26, 2024
The U.S. government has started requiring migrants without passports to submit to facial recognition technology to take domestic flights under a change that prompted confusion this week among immigrants and advocacy groups in Texas
March 14, 2024
House Republicans are demanding to know what led to a Justice Department order that a union of immigration judges get supervisor approval before speaking about the heavily backlogged courts
March 18, 2024
Federal authorities have charged a Rwandan man they accused of repeatedly lying about his involvement in murders and rapes amid the country’s 1994 genocide to win asylum and citizenship in the U.S. Authorities say Eric Nshimiye, of Ohio, was arrested Thursday on charges that include falsifying information, obstruction of justice and perjury
March 21, 2024A Rwandan man who authorities say took part in the country’s 1994 genocide before making his way to the U.S. has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston
March 26, 2024A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday kept on hold a Republican-backed Texas law that would let state authorities arrest and prosecute people suspected of illegally crossing
July 02, 2024
A federal appeals court has refused to lift an order that blocks Texas from arresting and deporting migrants suspected of illegally crossing the border
March 27, 2024
A federal judge sharply questions the Biden administration’s position that it bears no responsibility for housing and feeding migrant children who are waiting for agents in makeshift camps
March 29, 2024
In Donald Trump's speeches and online posts, the Republican presidential candidate has ramped up anti-immigrant rhetoric and his messaging often relies on falsehoods about migration
April 01, 2024
A company that provides services for immigrants in federal detention has been ordered to pay more than $811 million in restitution and penalties in a lawsuit alleging it used deceptive and abusive tactics
April 02, 2024
A judge has ruled that migrant children in makeshift camps along the U.S.-Mexico border waiting to be processed by Border Patrol are in the agency’s custody
April 04, 2024
More than half of the foreign-born population in the United States lives in just four states — California, Texas, Florida and New York
April 09, 2024
Local leaders from the San Diego area called for more U.S. border enforcement on Monday after a motor boat loaded with migrants navigated between
April 16, 2024Performing in the U.S. for international musicians just got a lot more complicated
April 16, 2024
Black immigrants have turned out in the hundreds across from a City Hall, drawing attention to racial inequities in the city’s shelter and immigrant support systems
April 16, 2024
Chicago is one of several big American cities grappling with a surge of migrants
April 19, 2024
The coincidence of presidential elections in the U.S. and Mexico every 12 years provides a valuable way to compare the two countries
April 27, 2024
California's population increased in 2023 for the first time in three years
April 30, 2024
Britain has sent its first asylum seeker to Rwanda under a voluntary scheme, The Sun Newspaper reported on Tuesday, saying the unnamed migrant was flown out of the
May 16, 2024
Indonesia may offer dual citizenship to people of Indonesian descent to entice more skilled workers into the country, a senior cabinet minister said on Tuesday.
May 15, 2024
British police have charged two men with immigration offences after five migrants, including a child, died when a small boat crossed the English Channel from France earlier this
May 12, 2024
The White House is weighing ways to provide temporary legal status and work permits to immigrants in the U.S. illegally who are married to American citizens, three
May 07, 2024
Jailers in Georgia must now check the immigration status of inmates and apply to help enforce federal immigration law
May 01, 2024
On a noisy factory floor in Columbus, Ohio, trade union apprentice Jorge Herrera moved quickly as he assembled ventilation ducts to be
May 02, 2024
Japan and India have decried remarks by U.S. President Joe Biden describing them as “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants while he was speaking during a campaign fundraising event earlier in the week
May 04, 2024
A Georgia man has been indicted on murder charges by a grand jury that said he intended to rape a nursing student whose body was found near a running trail on the University of Georgia campus
May 08, 2024The Biden administration plans to partially end the 27-year-old court supervision of how the federal government cares for child migrants, shortly after producing its own list of safeguards against mistreatment
May 09, 2024
The administration of U.S.
May 24, 2024
A new U.S. asylum change announced on Thursday aims to more quickly reject asylum seekers caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border if they pose certain
May 24, 2024
Ireland will this week consider making cuts to state support for asylum seekers and refugees, including those who arrived from Ukraine, in a bid to bring the system more in line
May 28, 2024
Belfast's High Court ruled on Monday that parts of the United Kingdom's flagship immigration policy should not apply in Northern Ireland as they undermine human rights protections
July 02, 2024
The Netherlands was set to have its most right-wing government in recent history after anti-immigration populist Geert Wilders said he was close to working out a deal with
May 30, 2024
The Biden administration is preparing more changes to the nation’s asylum system meant to speed up processing and potential removal of migrants who continue to arrive at the southern border
May 15, 2024
In recent months, the specter of people who aren't American citizens and are voting in the United States has become a rallying cry for Republicans
May 18, 2024
Germany granted citizenship to a record number of people last year, due largely to a jump in the number of Syrians who qualified for a passport after fleeing their country around a
June 12, 2024The White House is finalizing plans for a U.S.-Mexico border clampdown that would shut off asylum requests and automatically deny entrance to migrants once the number of people encountered by American border officials exceeded a new daily threshold
May 30, 2024
Former President Donald Trump’s campaign says the Biden administration's upcoming executive order to limit border crossings is ineffective and that President Joe Biden could completely close the border “with a swipe of the same pen.”
June 03, 2024
The U.N.’s International Organization for Migration is responding to President Joe Biden's effort to restrict asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border by acknowledging challenges posed by increasing migrant crossings
June 04, 2024
Arizona voters will be able to decide in the Nov. 5 election if they support or reject a Republican-led measure that would make it a crime to
June 20, 2024
Biden’s executive order won’t apply to undocumented minors who enter the US alone. And the order will require the help of Mexico and other countries.
June 05, 2024
Jessica Leon, an asylum-seeker from Ecuador, scaled a border wall on Tuesday with her 3-year-old daughter, setting foot on U.S. soil in San Diego, California,
June 22, 2024
A sense of uncertainty prevails among migrants after President Joe Biden invoked powers to suspend asylum for people who cross the border illegally
June 06, 2024
Germany will tighten its rules so that the glorification of terrorist offences can be sufficient grounds for deportation, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Thursday
June 23, 2024
A cluster of tarp-covered tents in a grassy lot south of Seattle highlights the strain facing many communities are facing
June 07, 2024
Authorities say seven people have been arrested after smuggling 26 migrants near San Antonio, Texas, in a secret compartment of a trailer with little water and in sweltering heat
June 07, 2024
Wall Street isn’t buying Trump’s deportation threats or Elon Musk’s spending cut claims
December 03, 2024
Mexican authorities are using a simple but harsh tactic to deal with migrants trying to get to the U.S. They're wearing them out until they give up
June 11, 2024
One late afternoon in mid-May, a half dozen Hispanic day laborers were paid $20 each to parade in front of the White House on camera,
June 28, 2024
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar has warned that migrants who do not opt for a legal pathway into the United States will face consequences
June 13, 2024
Some shelters south of the U.S. border are caring for many more migrants now that the Biden administration stopped considering most asylum requests
June 14, 2024
A federal judge has temporarily blocked an Iowa law that allows law enforcement in the state to file criminal charges against people with outstanding deportation orders or who previously had been denied entry to the United States
June 17, 2024
President Joe Biden has ordered an expansive election-year step to offer relief to potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S. It comes after the Democratic president's own aggressive immigration crackdown at the southern border earlier this month
June 18, 2024
President Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a sweeping effort to provide a path to citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S.
July 02, 2024
The federal government has long had sole authority over U.S. immigration policy, but several Republican-led states are pushing for a role in enforcing regulations
June 18, 2024
Biden’s executive action will shield approximately 500,000 undocumented spouses of US citizens, as well as 50,000 children, from deportation and give them the legal right to stay in the US.
June 18, 2024
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants had reason to rejoice when President Joe Biden unveiled a highly expansive plan to extend legal status to spouses of U.S. citizens but, inevitably, some were left out
June 19, 2024
A group of migrants walked into Mexico on Saturday against pedestrian traffic on the international bridge between El Paso and
July 02, 2024
Herders carved names, slogans, nude silhouettes and more into the trees around them during lonely seasons in the mountains. Now, researchers rush to find and record the arborglyphs before they disappear.
June 20, 2024
Preliminary federal government figures show the number of people arrested by Border Patrol agents fell by 25% since President Joe Biden announced new rules restricting asylum access two weeks ago
June 20, 2024
A second Venezuelan man living in the U.S. illegally and accused of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl has been ordered to be held on a $10 million bond
June 25, 2024
The German government agreed on Wednesday a draft law to make it easier to deport people for praising or promoting "terrorist crimes", the interior ministry said.
June 26, 2024
In the English coastal town of Clacton-on-Sea, many Conservative voters are considering switching to the anti-immigration Reform UK party in next week’s national election
June 26, 2024
A growing proportion of non-European Union citizens ordered to leave EU territory are being returned to countries outside the bloc as part of efforts to rein in irregular
June 28, 2024
Minutes before going on stage for the first presidential debate on Thursday, Donald Trump received a phone call from the mother of 12-year-old
June 30, 2024
A federal judge in Los Angeles partially terminated a nearly 30-year-old settlement agreement that established minimum standards for housing unaccompanied migrant
July 01, 2024
Japan faces a shortage of almost one million foreign workers in 2040 if the government wants to achieve its economic growth goals as the population dwindles, an estimate from a state
July 04, 2024
37 people become official US citizens at Locust Grove on Fourth of July
July 05, 2024
Trump-aligned Republicans make noncitizen voting – already illegal in federal elections – a top 2024 target
July 10, 2024
The U.S. House of Representatives is poised to vote on a proof-of-citizenship requirement for voter registration
July 10, 2024
For many French voters of diverse backgrounds, last Sunday’s parliamentary election results were a relief
July 11, 2024
Panama installs barbed wire to block migrants traveling through the Darién Gap
July 11, 2024
Donald Trump is blaming migrants in the U.S. illegally for fueling violent crime as part of his presidential campaign and Republicans plan to
April 11, 2024
Biden Administration Sees Major Success as Border Arrests Decline Sharply
July 16, 2024Donald Trump may link immigration to violent crime more effectively than any American politician before him, but he’s hardly the first to promote the unfounded narrative
July 16, 2024
Asylum-seekers have gravitated to working food delivery in New York and other major cities, drawn by an abundance of customers and ease of getting started
July 18, 2024
Mexico's president has called Donald Trump “a friend,” and says he will write the former U.S. president a letter to warn him against pledging to close the border or blaming migrants for bringing drugs into the United States
July 19, 2024
Threats by President-elect Donald Trump to impose U.S. tariffs on its immediate neighbors appear to have created a split between Canada and Mexico, after Canadian officials said problems with the two countries' borders were not comparable
December 02, 2024
Britain's new Labour interior minister on Monday accused the previous, Conservative government of concealing the fact that it expected to spend 10 billion pounds
July 22, 2024
Britain's new Labour government will end the use of the controversial Bibby Stockholm barge to house migrants off the south coast of England as part of its overhaul of the asylum
July 23, 2024
A group of 2,000 migrants from dozens of countries have set out on foot from Tapachula, a city in southern Mexico, as they attempt to reach the U.S.
July 23, 2024
Indonesia launched a long-term visa scheme on Thursday intended to attract foreign investors, President Joko Widodo said, with amounts of up to $10 million giving them a 10-year
July 25, 2024
Here’s what a Harris presidency could look like
July 27, 2024
A floating barrier in the Rio Grande meant to discourage migrants from trying to cross from Mexico into Texas can stay for now, a full federal appeals court has ruled
July 31, 2024
Once presenting itself as one of the world's most welcoming countries to refugees and immigrants, Canada is launching a global online ad campaign cautioning
December 02, 2024
14-year-old alleged smuggler leads Texas DPS trooper on high-speed chase
August 02, 2024
Dozens arrested in violent UK protests over Southport stabbings
August 03, 2024
Violent disorder swept across several British cities on Saturday, injuring police and damaging property in the most
August 03, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday condemned what he described as "far-right thuggery" and said perpetrators would face the full force of the law after days of violent
August 04, 2024
While visiting the key battleground state of Ohio, CNN's Manu Raju speaks to Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, whose seat is up for reelection, to hear his reaction to Kamala Harris' presidency bid and question why Brown is distancing himself from the Harris campaign.
August 04, 2024
‘They tried to kill people:’ Rotherham residents despair after riot at hotel housing asylum seekers
August 06, 2024
Riots have erupted at anti-immigration protests in towns and cities across Britain in the last week, with attacks by far-right groups on hotels housing asylum seekers and on mosques
August 07, 2024
British police remained on alert on Thursday after a heavy security presence, rapid arrests and displays of unity by people across Britain on
August 08, 2024
Fifteen states have sued the Biden administration over a rule that is expected to allow 100,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to enroll next year in the federal Affordable Care Act’s health insurance
August 08, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris drew on her prosecutorial background to make her first expansive pitch on immigration to border-state voters as she and her new running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, attracted thousands to a campaign rally in Arizona during their tour of battleground states
August 09, 2024
GOP launches new immigration attacks on Harris highlighting Walz’s policies
August 09, 2024
5 years after nation’s largest immigration raid, families still picking up the pieces
August 09, 2024
Remembering the largest ICE raids in U.S. history five years later
August 09, 2024
Donald Trump is putting immigration at the heart of his campaign to retake the White House
August 10, 2024
Canada's temporary foreign worker program is not fatally flawed but is "in need of reform," the country's immigration minister told Reuters on Tuesday,
August 13, 2024Refugee Olympic Team’s historic first medalist Cindy Ngamba hopes to inspire millions
August 14, 2024
By 2100, China’s population will likely be half its current size. It will also be a lot older, with fewer working-age men and women.
August 15, 2024
Immigration tops the list of issues that Britons consider most important for the first time since 2016 - when Britain voted to leave the European Union - following riots this month
August 16, 2024The running mates of Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris are coming under greater scrutiny as the presidential election heats up
August 16, 2024
U.S. authorities say arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico plummeted 33% in July to the lowest level since September 2020, a result of asylum being temporarily suspended
August 16, 2024
A new Biden administration program will allow some spouses of U.S. citizens living in the U.S. illegally to gain legal status without leaving the country
August 17, 2024
Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO), which opinion polls make favourite to win the country's general election on Sept. 29, presented its campaign manifesto on Wednesday, setting out
August 21, 2024
Guatemalan police have arrested seven Guatemalans accused of having smuggled 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America who died of asphyxiation in 2022 in Texas after being abandoned in a tractor trailer in the scorching summer heat
August 21, 2024
The number of British visas granted to foreign health and care workers and family members of international students fell sharply after the previous Conservative government imposed
August 22, 2024Hundreds of migrants from India, Nepal and Vietnam have been stuck in Sao Paulo's international airport for weeks in alarming conditions,
August 23, 2024
A 26-year-old Syrian man has been ordered held on suspicion of murder and membership in a terrorist organization in connection with the Solingen knife attack
August 25, 2024
Canada is reducing by tens of thousands the number of temporary foreign workers it brings in, reversing some expansions to the program it made in 2022 as the
August 26, 2024
Fact check: How Trump uses a deceptive chart to lie about the border
August 26, 2024
Immigration attorneys say families are in limbo after a federal judge in Texas paused a Biden administration program that would provide immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens a pathway to citizenship
August 27, 2024
As the far-right Alternative for Germany gains more power in eastern Germany, companies there find it increasingly hard to attract the skilled foreign workers they desperately need
August 28, 2024
Undocumented woman reacts to Trump's mass deportation plans
August 28, 2024
In an interview with CNN's Dana Bash, Vice President Kamala Harris addressed former President Donald Trump's remarks last month, where he implied that she "happened to turn Black" for political purposes. Harris dismissed Trump's comments as part of his "same old tired playbook".
August 30, 2024
Last year, at least 686 migrants died trying to cross into the US from Mexico. Many had the option to call 911 but were too afraid of detection and deportation to seek help.
August 30, 2024
Fact check: New Trump ad uses edited quote to attack nonexistent Harris immigration proposal
August 31, 2024For more than a year, religious organizations have lobbied Congress and the Biden administration to fix a sudden procedural change in how the government processes green cards for religious workers from abroad
August 31, 2024
A far-right party has won a state election for the first time in post-World War II Germany in the country’s east, while it looks set to finish a very close second to mainstream conservatives in a second vote
September 01, 2024
AfD becomes first far-right party to win German state election since 1945
September 02, 2024
Czech police detained some 30 migrants and found one dead person in a truck near Prague on a highway to Germany on Monday evening, police and emergency service said on social
September 02, 2024Deported veterans in Phoenix push for change
September 04, 2024
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will debate for the first — and perhaps, last — time next week as the presidential candidates fight to sway voters on the biggest stage in U.S. politics
September 05, 2024
Brazil's has guaranteed 32 immigrants of various nationalities who are at Sao Paulo's Guarulhos Airport the right not to be forcibly repatriated, according to
September 06, 2024
Why playing it safe on immigration and crime could be a big risk for Harris
September 09, 2024Germany's government presented a plan on Tuesday to implement more rigorously European rules on asylum that would see more people turned away at its
September 10, 2024
Recipients of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are bracing for potential challenges to their status in the country during President-elect Donald Trump's second term in the White House
December 01, 2024
Kamala Harris pressed a forceful case against Donald Trump on Tuesday in their first and perhaps only debate before the presidential election, repeatedly goading him in an event that showcased their starkly different visions for the country on abortion, immigration and American democracy
September 11, 2024
Rose Joseph and Banal Oreus followed different paths from Haiti to this struggling Midwestern industrial city that suddenly finds itself at the center
September 11, 2024
CNN's Omar Jimenez visits Springfield, Ohio, where former President Donald Trump falsely claimed migrants are eating people's pets.
September 19, 2024
It’s a practice that’s about as American as apple pie — accusing immigrant and minority communities of engaging in bizarre or disgusting behaviors when it comes to what and how they eat and drink
September 12, 2024
Buttigieg: Trump and Vance ‘demonizing immigrants’ to distract from their record
September 13, 2024
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September 13, 2024
CNN's Erin Burnett speaks with Marc Caputo, national reporter for "The Bulwark," about the growing relationship between former President Donald Trump and far-right agitator Laura Loomer.
September 14, 2024
Springfield, Ohio, schools open Tuesday with increased security amid threats linked to false claims about Haitian immigrants
September 17, 2024
What to know about the false rumor targeting Haitian immigrants in Ohio town
September 17, 2024
'Parole in Place' aims to help with temporary immigration status
September 17, 2024
Tensions flared last fall in western Wisconsin’s Chippewa Valley with news that several dozen refugees would be resettled in and around the city of Eau Claire, one of several midsize cities across the U.S. that has grappled with refugee resettlement
September 17, 2024
‘Why Springfield?’ How a small Ohio city became home for thousands of Haitians
September 19, 2024
Jake Tapper reports
September 20, 2024
The politics of immigration look different from communities on the Southwest border that are voting in hotly contested congressional races
September 20, 2024
First-time applications from people seeking asylum in European Union countries declined in June, with Syrians, Venezuelans, and Afghans being the primary applicants, a report from the
September 20, 2024
Vance’s team was told Haitian immigrant rumors were false before debate, Springfield mayor confirms
September 20, 2024
Virtually everyone calls the U.S. immigration system broken
September 20, 2024
It started with an informal pick-up game. Now, this organized soccer club is a lifeline for many asylum-seekers
September 21, 2024
Here’s what these young voters say are their top issues in the 2024 election
September 22, 2024
Trump’s allegation about immigrants eating pets is part of a long history of slurs demonizing people for what they do and don’t eat.
September 24, 2024
CNN Poll: Harris and Trump locked in exceedingly close presidential race
September 24, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona on Friday as her campaign tries to turn the larger issue of immigration from a liability into a strength and hopes to counter a line of frequent political attacks from former President Donald Trump
September 25, 2024
Former President Donald Trump is warning that he would kick out hundreds of thousands of people who entered the country under two key Biden administration programs if he’s reelected
September 25, 2024
A growing share of GOP voters see diversity as threatening to American culture, CNN poll finds
September 25, 2024
GOP Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana is facing a censure vote over a since-deleted social media post calling Haitian migrants “thugs” and “slapstick gangsters” who needed to get “their a** out of our country.” CNN's Anderson Cooper explains.
September 25, 2024
Icelanders are electing a new parliament after disagreements over immigration, energy policy and the economy forced Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson to pull the plug on his coalition government and call early elections
November 30, 2024
A strange moment in American politics surfaced at the U.N. General Assembly, brought up by a top Haitian official
September 26, 2024
Venezuelans trekking across the Darien Gap – a rugged jungle passage between Colombia and Panama – say they’re making the perilous journey because they lost hope for change following a contentious presidential election in which President Nicolás Maduro was declared winner despite vote tallies released by the opposition showing that his competitor won by a landslide
September 26, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris has used her first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee to try to project a tougher stance on illegal migration
September 27, 2024
Harris goes to the border to take Trump to task for blocking bill to fix migration issues: ‘He prefers to run on a problem’
September 27, 2024
Austrian voters handed a first-ever general election victory to the far-right Freedom Party on Sunday, preliminary results showed, illustrating
September 28, 2024
Elon Musk is one of illegal immigration’s harshest critics. He once described his past immigration status as a ‘gray area’
September 29, 2024
Fact check: To attack Harris, Trump falsely describes new stats on immigrants and homicide
September 29, 2024
President Joe Biden will keep the administration's target of accepting 125,000 refugees next year, according to a memo delivered to the U.S. State Department on Monday.
September 30, 2024
Luca Pirveli grew up in Austria as the son of Georgian refugees, but the 19-year-old believes immigration is out of control and should be curbed.
October 01, 2024
CBS News cut GOP Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's microphones after a contentious back-and-forth over Haitian migrants in Ohio that included a fact check from moderators.
October 02, 2024
Takeaways from the vice presidential debate between Vance and Walz
October 02, 2024
A program that helps refugees resettle in the United States has expanded to include LGBTQ+ people who have been threatened and harassed in their home countries
October 02, 2024
Immigrant students in San Francisco overcoming barriers to higher education
October 02, 2024Donald Trump is fond of a data chart that shows the stark contrast of the U.S.-Mexico border crossings between his time in the White House and President Joe Biden’s tenure
October 03, 2024
Trump says he would revoke Temporary Protected Status for Haitian migrants in Springfield if elected
October 03, 2024
As record numbers of South Americans come to the U.S. seeking better economic opportunities, many are landing in communities that are unprepared for them — and sometimes outright hostile
October 04, 2024
By Ted Hesson, Kristina Cooke and M.B.Pell CHARLEROI, Pennsylvania - Dana Smith had been teaching first grade at the public school in the small Pennsylvania town of Charleroi for more than 16 years
October 05, 2024
European far-right leaders rallied on Sunday to the side of Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, who faces a possible six-year jail term for refusing to let a migrant boat
October 06, 2024
Former President Donald Trump on Monday suggested undocumented immigrants who commit murder have “bad genes,” in the latest example of the former president using dehumanizing rhetoric as he tries to stoke fears about those in the country illegally. Republican strategist and CNN political commentator Ana Navarro joins Anderson Cooper to discuss the impact of Trump's rhetoric.
October 08, 2024
In some of the closest House races in the country, Democratic candidates are leaning into an issue that Republicans have made a centerpiece of their pitch to voters — immigration
October 09, 2024
One American physician's long journey to becoming a family doctor in Canada
October 09, 2024In closing stretch, Trump is defying polls and betting that voters care more about immigration than the economy
October 11, 2024
The Federal Reserve's road ahead appeared crystal clear in September, but the picture is far foggier than many thought and the past and future impact of immigration on
October 11, 2024The man accused of killing a nursing student whose body was found on the University of Georgia campus appeared Friday at a court hearing to hear motions in the case as his trial looms next month
October 11, 2024According to a new poll, Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults are more likely than the overall U.S. population to view legal immigration as an asset to the country’s economy and workforce
October 14, 2024
Trump campaign tries to push immigration issue over Bill Clinton’s comments on Laken Riley
October 14, 2024
Donald Trump has vowed that if voters return him to the White House, “inflation will vanish completely.”
October 14, 2024
New Mexico authorities are grappling with a growing number of migrants dying in the state's border region, with the remains of more than 100 found in the first eight months of the year in the state
October 15, 2024
Two neighboring Texas cities illustrate the divide in American politics between the diverse, potential electorate in the country and the actual electorate, which is heavily white and wealthier
October 19, 2024
Immigrants, as well as those who work closely with them, say both sides’ efforts to crack down on the border have clouded the larger immigration issue in ways often too nuanced to break down cleanly along ideological lines
October 21, 2024
U.S. authorities say arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico fell 7% in September to a more than four-year low
October 22, 2024
The Netherlands looks set to introduce border controls as part of a raft of measures aimed at limiting immigration, Dutch broadcaster RTL reported on Wednesday, citing government
October 23, 2024Trump says US is ‘like a garbage can for the world’ as he rails against illegal immigration
October 25, 2024
Donald Trump has promised to stage the largest mass deportation in U.S. history if elected
October 27, 2024
As Black immigrants, Haitians are doubly marginalized by structural racism embedded in US immigration policies and the broader societal racism experienced by Black Americans.
October 28, 2024
Elon Musk is sharing some details about his immigration path. Experts say they still have questions
October 28, 2024
The owner of two Boston-area pizza shops convicted of forced labor for using physical violence and threats of reprisal or deportation against employees living in the country illegally has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison
October 28, 2024How voter purge disputes have fueled the GOP ‘narrative’ of noncitizen voting
October 29, 2024
The U.S. House race in Colorado's 8th Congressional District is one of the closest in the nation and a testing ground for Republicans' and Democrats' strategies to reach Latino voters
October 29, 2024
Trump’s comments against immigrants of color have prompted comparisons to the Nazis. But American and British theorists coined the theory of eugenics long before the Nazis rose to power.
October 29, 2024
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October 30, 2024
Across Ecuador, gangs have unleashed a wave of violence and extortion, upending lives and spurring an unprecedented exodus
October 30, 2024Richard Jones is one of the most outspoken sheriffs in America when it comes to illegal immigration and crime, echoing themes pushed by Donald Trump in the 2024
October 31, 2024
Immigration is a core issue for voters
October 31, 2024
Immigration is a core issue for voters
October 31, 2024
At noon on Sundays in Worthington, Minnesota, an overflow crowd is still swaying to the Guatemalan band at Spanish-language Catholic Mass, Ethiopian Orthodox Christians are wrapping up their six-hour-long service, and at town’s edge among the cornfields, refugees from Southeast Asia gather to pray and sing in Karen at the Baptist church founded by Swedish farmers
October 31, 2024
Hong Kong leader opposes 'coercion and bullying' by foreign governments
BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street ask court to dismiss US antitrust lawsuit
Hong Kong stocks and kiwi rise on China outlook
Israel launches deadly wave of airstrikes across Gaza, killing at least 200 after truce talks stall
Israel consulted US on its strikes in Gaza, White House told Fox News
Oil prices muted as slowdown worries offset China data, Mideast risks
Heat-Knicks game is delayed after Tracy Morgan gets sick at Madison Square Garden
Trump uses Kennedy Center visit to criticize the venue and tout his efforts to remake it
NCAA agrees to lift name, image and likeness recruitment ban