Immigration

The case of an Afghan man who represented himself in U.S. immigration court offers a rare look in that system’s proceedings.

Pope Francis is challenging French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders to open their ports to people fleeing hardship and poverty.

The 23-year-old man and his pet squirrel are an unusual but blunt reflection of the emotional choices migrants make over what to take — and what to leave behind — as they embark on the dangerous trip north. Here’s their touching story.

A pediatrician tasked by the federal court in Los Angeles to monitor the conditions of migrant children in U.S. government custody revealed in a recent court filing that some children were temporarily separated from their parents while in Border Patrol custody this summer due to overcrowding. 

The proposal would reform the H-2A visa program, under which hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mostly from Mexico, take on seasonal jobs in the U.S. agriculture industry.

The U.S. has more than 9 million open roles and only 5.8 million job seekers. Here’s why some economists think the immigration and labor crises are related.

A federal judge on Tuesday will consider whether Texas can keep a floating barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border as both the Biden administration and Mexico push to remove Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest hardline measure to deter migrants from crossing.

Thousands of migrants from the West African country of Mauritania have arrived in the U.S. in recent months, following a new route taking them to Nicaragua and up through the southern border.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ administration wants to house migrants in a notorious federal jail that was closed after disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide there led to its squalid conditions being deemed unsafe for humans.

The boat was found with seven bodies off the Atlantic archipelago of Cape Verde, off the coast of Senegal.

An appeals court is allowing a rule restricting asylum at the southern border to temporarily stay in place in a major win for the Biden administration.

Mexican authorities are trying to identify two bodies found in the Rio Grande this week, including one that was spotted along the floating barrier that Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott had installed recently in the Rio Grande, across from Eagle Pass, Texas.

A North Carolina man who drove his car into a group of migrant workers in a Walmart parking lot, injuring six men, turned himself in to police Monday night.

Police in North Carolina say six migrant workers were intentionally hit by an SUV in a Walmart parking lot.

The new Biden administration initiative comes two months after the expiration of pandemic-era border restriction known as Title 42 in May

Dozens of people who apparently were smuggled into the United States were found working and living in “horrible” conditions at an illegal marijuana plant in California’s Central Valley, authorities said Thursday.

According to the Department of Homeland Security, about 85,000 migrants have been “repatriated” since Title 42 was lifted. That’s up 65% since the same period last year.

The increase adds to concern among some senior Biden administration officials that overall migrant border crossings, which had fallen after Title 42 ended, might be rising again.

The court ruling Tuesday takes away a key enforcement tool that President Joe Biden’s administration set in place when coronavirus-based restrictions expired in May.

Under the rule, migrants are generally presumed ineligible for asylum unless they use a government app to get an appointment or they’ve already tried to seek protection in another country.