immigration policy

A federal judge on Friday did not issue an immediate ruling on whether the Biden administration can end pandemic-related restrictions on migrants seeking asylum.

NBC 5’s Lili Zheng explains Title 42 and the concerns of whether its ending could open the floodgates to people trying to enter the U.S. at the southern border.

The former U.S. special envoy to Haiti who resigned last month said he did so after learning on the news about the deportation of Haitian migrants. 

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said immigration officers can no longer detain and deport people solely because they’re undocumented. 

The U.S. special envoy to Haiti has resigned, citing what he calls the United States’ “inhumane, counterproductive” response to the Haitian migrant surge.

Released photos of crowded holding facilities for migrants at the border has turned the country’s eyes on the Biden Administration’s handling of the border crisis. The White House and state department officials will travel to Mexico and Guatemala to discuss the cause of the sudden influx of migrants, and how to slow it down.

House lawmakers passed two bills that would create a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. Their fate in the Senate is unclear.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is officially accepting new applications for the first time in three years after a federal judge fully reinstated the program. LX News welcomed DACA recipient Osiris Ordaz and Andrea Anaya, who is now eligible to apply for the first time, to discuss what the restoration of the Obama signature immigration policy means to them...

A federal judge in Chicago has struck down a Trump administration rule that would deny green cards to immigrants who use food stamps or other public benefits

The administration is seeking a sweeping ruling that it could potentially use to deport millions of people, even those arrested far from the border and who have been in the country for years, experts on the issue said.

A Venezuelan teenager has been forced back to Mexico by U.S. government authorities who denied her claims that she was fleeing political repression and violence, even after they accepted the same claims from her father.