Immigration

The city of Brownsville signed a disaster declaration after nearly 15,000 migrants crossed through the area, with many of them screened and released from federal custody and into the city.

The Biden administration is announcing new measures meant to stop migrants from illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, both by cracking down on those who do come, and by creating new pathways meant to offer an alternative to the dangerous journey. The measures were announced Thursday. They include things like setting up migration centers in foreign countries, increasing the number of...

The Border Patrol has been releasing people with notices to appear at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office.

About two dozen makeshift tents were set ablaze and destroyed at a migrant camp across the border from Texas this week, witnesses said Friday, a sign of the extreme risk that comes with being stuck in Mexico as the Biden administration increasingly relies on that country to host people fleeing poverty and violence.

Wednesday marks three weeks until the expected end of the controversial COVID-era public health policy used since 2020 to turn away hundreds of thousands of migrants at the southern border.

President Joe Biden announced Thursday that hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children will now be able to apply for Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security says migrants entering the country illegally will be screened by asylum officers while in custody under a limited experiment that provides them access to legal counsel.

The top Mexican immigration official in the state where a detention center fire killed at least 39 migrants allegedly was informed of the fire by phone and ordered that the migrants not be released.

Mexican officials appeared to place blame for the deaths in the fire late Monday largely on private, subcontracted security guards at the detention center in Ciudad Juarez.

Video shows guards walking away from where a fire started during a blaze that killed at least 39 asylum-seekers at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez. Mekahlo Medina reports March 28, 2023. 

Migrants fearing deportation set mattresses ablaze at an immigration detention center in northern Mexico, starting a fire that killed at least 38 people.

As migrants cross illegally into the U.S. from Canada at historically high levels, U.S. officials have begun flying migrants apprehended at the northern border south to Texas. 

From Oct. 1 to Feb. 28, about 2,000 migrants crossed the border between Canada and New Hampshire, Vermont and New York south through the forests, compared to just 200 crossings in the same period the previous year.

Republican lawmakers in Texas are proposing legislation that would make it a state felony to cross the border from Mexico illegally and create a new border police force that could deputize private citizens, the latest in the state’s continued push to test the limits of the federal government’s authority over immigration.

Such rumors are a recurrent problem. Last month, messages began circulating “that there were going to be buses on the U.S. side to take them to Canada … and when they arrived, they were told it was a lie,” a U.N. official said

A federal judge has ordered the Biden administration to end the expedited releases of migrants entering the United States from Mexico, potentially straining already stretched holding facilities.

Blaming the border crisis on the president has been a popular talking point among the his critics.

A months-long, multi-nation fiasco is finally over for a Plano woman.

The Biden administration says it will generally deny asylum to migrants who show up at the U.S. southern border without first seeking protection in a country they passed through

“Let’s come together on immigration,” President Joe Biden said Tuesday. “Let’s at least pass my plan to provide the equipment and officers to secure the border and a pathway to citizenship for DREAMers.