U.S. Immigration and Border News

The ruling by a federal judge is the latest setback for G.O.P.-controlled states that have passed their own laws on immigration.

Donald J. Trump accused immigrants of stealing “Black jobs” and “Hispanic jobs” during Thursday’s debate, prompting criticism from Democrats and other social media users.

Former President Donald J. Trump continued to spread fear of immigrants, while the president did not define any broader strategy on the issue.

The plan giving temporary protected status to people from the Caribbean island who arrived after November 2022 comes amid a flurry of recent immigration moves by the president.

What you need to know about the economy before Thursday’s showdown between President Biden and Donald J. Trump.

The killing of 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray in Houston has become the latest crime seized on by Republicans to attack President Biden over his immigration policies.

The men were arrested after the F.B.I. quietly began an investigation that stretched across the country and involved scores of bureau personnel.

Immigration, the economy, democracy and abortion rights: Here are the main ways each candidate is likely to slam the other at Thursday’s high-stakes confrontation.

Mr. Trump said his suggestion to Dana White, who runs the Ultimate Fighting Championship, was not well received. But, he added, “It’s not the worst idea I’ve ever had.”

Mr. Trump’s promise to Silicon Valley investors was a sharp departure from immigration curbs he enacted during his presidency. His campaign walked it back soon after.

A new Biden administration measure enables “Dreamers” to get work visas that could free them from relying on the DACA program, whose survival is in doubt.

Undocumented spouses of American citizens will be shielded from deportation, provided work permits and given a pathway to citizenship, according to officials briefed on the plan.

An emerging coalition that views Donald J. Trump’s agenda as a threat to democracy is laying the groundwork to push back if he wins in November, taking extraordinary pre-emptive actions.

A majority of the justices found that the government had fulfilled its duty to tell immigrants about their court dates, even when the information was incomplete.

An annual count by the city found more than 4,100 people sleeping on streets and in subways. It was the most since the city began keeping track nearly two decades ago.

The steps under consideration include protecting them from deportation and providing access to work permits, according to three officials with knowledge of the discussions.

Shelters along the border were quieter on Friday and Saturday compared with previous months, but many hoping to cross into the U.S. felt stranded and fearful.

Parents with children represent 40 percent of migrants who crossed the southern border this year. Now, they will be turned back within days, according to a memo obtained by The New York Times.

Trump’s Latino outreach effort aims to emphasize citizenship as he makes inroads with these voters, even as he ramps up inflammatory talk about immigrants.

There are still ways for people to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, particularly without any new resources to help guard the 2,000-mile frontier.

The new time constraint comes after President Biden announced a near-total ban on asylum on the southern border.

The president issued an executive order that essentially blocks asylum claims at the southern border, a major shift in how the United States has handled claims for protection.

President Biden’s executive action addresses one of his most serious political vulnerabilities ahead of the presidential election.

Asylum seekers from around the world are trying to enter the United States through California, and immigrant traffic there has reached its highest level in decades.

The move, expected on Tuesday, would allow the president to temporarily close the border and suspend longtime protections for asylum seekers in the United States.

As the 2024 presidential election ramps up, here is what polls say about public views on the growing number of migrants.

Charities that feed, clothe and shelter border crossers fear for the safety of their employees and volunteers as the election nears and the vitriol over immigration intensifies.

Bhutanese Americans are the newest citizens of Asian descent. But many do not identify strongly as Asian Americans, reflecting the complexity of the label.

The party is pursuing a “sword and shield” political strategy as Senator Chuck Schumer pushes showdown votes on border security and abortion rights ahead of this year’s elections.

The provision was part of an effort to discourage unauthorized immigrants from living and working in Florida.

The evictions are part of an aggressive strategy to force some adult migrants out of city shelters after 30 or 60 days.

The bipartisan border enforcement compromise, blocked by Republicans in February, is all but certain to be thwarted again. Democrats aim to tag the G.O.P. as the culprit in its failure.

A record number of new migrants has left many with legitimate asylum cases unable to find a lawyer to keep them from being deported.

Mayor Adams said that his comment, which drew criticism from the right and the left, was based on numerous conversations he has had with migrants.

The announcement of visa restrictions and sanctions against Nicaraguan organizations reflects the White House’s concern that a surge of migrants could threaten President Biden’s re-election.

Bernie Moreno, the Republican challenging Senator Sherrod Brown in Ohio, tells a riches-to-rags-to-riches tale. But the reality isn’t so tidy.

As President Biden considers sweeping changes to the U.S. asylum system, he is also taking smaller steps to try to control the backlogs.

The political arms of five organizations are coordinating their efforts to mobilize Hispanic Democrats, saying that defeating the former president is their top goal.

President Biden also referred to Russia and China, saying they “don’t want immigrants.” A spokesman said the president was trying to make a comment about America’s immigrant “DNA,” not insult other countries.

A flier urging migrants to vote for President Biden rocketed around right-wing social media. But was it authentic?

In an interview with Time magazine, the former president said he planned to use the military to deport migrants and would not dismiss the possibility of political violence after this year’s election.

Democrats quickly swept aside the articles of impeachment accusing the homeland security secretary of refusing to enforce immigration laws and breach of public trust, calling them unconstitutional.

Republicans are demanding a full trial of the homeland security secretary, but Democrats have made it clear they will try to dismiss the charges quickly and with little fanfare.

Ruben Gallego has long embraced his progressive background. Now, with his state newly in the spotlight over abortion politics, he’s getting tough on the border and targeting swing voters.

At rallies, Donald Trump frequently laments migrants from a list of countries from Africa, Asia and the Middle East as he stokes fears around the surge at the border.

The arrest marked at least the second time in the last year that National Guard members in Texas had been caught trying to transport migrants from the border.

The former president held up the death of a young Michigan woman at a campaign rally as an example of what he calls “migrant crime,” and claimed to have spoken to her family.

President Biden is restoring resources and staffing for the refugee program, which was gutted during the Trump administration.

The former president has tried to stoke fear around immigration and border security throughout his 2024 campaign, as he has done in the past.

The governor of Maryland said that the search for missing victims would resume when the conditions for divers improve.

New migrants from Africa have joined a changing community in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where they have injected more youthful energy but also brought challenges.

The six men who were killed were all immigrants from Latin America. Their deaths have shaken the growing Hispanic community in and around Baltimore.

They argue that quickly dispensing with the charges, as senators in both parties are inclined to do, would be an affront to Americans.

The museum, opened 34 years ago in a 19th-century building, will be refurbished and reimagined, the president of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation said.

The decision in favor of the federal government left in place a trial court injunction while courts determine whether the measure is legal.

The Texas governor, Greg Abbott, has spent $10 billion building his own border security network. In Eagle Pass, where it has been concentrated, far fewer migrants have been crossing this year.

Iowa lawmakers passed a similar bill on Tuesday, and several other states are hoping to follow suit.

The flurry of recent back-and-forth legal orders left law enforcement leaders hesitant on how they plan to enforce the law, if it ever takes effect.

As dizzying legal developments sowed confusion along the border, an appeals court panel appeared split over whether Texas’ migrant arrest law should remain on hold while the court fight continues.

The Texas governor has rallied Republicans by pushing the boundaries of what a governor can do when it comes to immigration. Now he’s in a head-to-head confrontation with the Biden administration.

The clash between P.S. 145 and West Prep Academy reflects trends in the New York City school system right now.

The treacherous migrant crossing in Panama is drawing packs of American activists who are distorting how immigration is perceived, and debated, at home.

There was no immediate response along the border after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for Texas police to arrest and deport migrants. Officials have not said when enforcement would begin.

The Supreme Court eventually struck down portions of Arizona’s law, which had set off a torrent of fear and anger.

Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican, said she would sign the measure into law.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has a reputation for issuing decisions too conservative even for the six-justice supermajority of Republican appointees.

The president’s sharp-elbowed pitch came as polls show former President Donald J. Trump gaining ground with the crucial voting bloc.

The city has negotiated a deal that will limit single migrants to 30-day shelter stays. Officials hope it will ease the crunch without increasing street homelessness.

The schools share a building in Manhattan, but their paths forward have diverged as they contend with two major crises challenging urban school districts.

The suspect and the 15-year-old were both living in a hotel that currently serves as a migrants shelter. The charge comes amid heightened scrutiny over America’s immigration policy.

Local lore says that one 82-year-old professor has probably taught more Afghan women drivers in a California town than there are in all Afghanistan. For them, it’s not about empowerment; it’s for groceries.

The goal of the program is to keep people from skipping out on their asylum hearings, joining the millions of undocumented people who stay in the country indefinitely.

Letting children work in the train system during school hours breaks several laws and rules. But a series of agencies said it was not their place to stop the practice.

The president had used the word in an unscripted exchange with Republicans during his State of the Union address on Thursday.

The initiative allows up to 360,000 people a year from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to live and work in the United States if supported by a financial sponsor.

The documents have been sought by the Heritage Foundation in a freedom of information lawsuit. The group wants to know if the prince’s drug use was considered in granting him a U.S. visa.

President Biden’s State of the Union address and former President Donald Trump’s victory speech on Super Tuesday conjured diametrically opposed visions of America’s past, present and future.

The far-right representative from Georgia with a history of interrupting the president at the State of the Union, shouted at Mr. Biden about crimes committed by undocumented migrants, leading him to go off script.

The president made it clear in a State of the Union address that he sees the election as an existential struggle between democracy and extremism.

Thirty-seven Democrats joined Republicans in support of the legislation, which has little chance of enactment but offered the G.O.P. a chance to attack President Biden and Democrats on immigration.

After racking up a series of wins that cleared the field, former President Donald J. Trump moved to a general election message. Here’s a fact check.

As 15 states hold primaries on Super Tuesday, we asked voters what they would do about immigration and how it was affecting their decisions.

The bill was passed by Republicans, and the veto came on the same day that the Supreme Court agreed to weigh in on a similar law in Texas.

Both sides claimed victory after a mixed decision that said voters must provide proof of citizenship in state elections, but not in some federal ones.

At rallies in North Carolina and Virginia, former President Donald J. Trump asserted without evidence that President Biden was urging migrants to enter the country and vote illegally in November.

The 2015 killing of Ms. Steinle on a San Francisco pier brought national attention to illegal immigration and sanctuary cities.

The ruling halts implementation of a law that would allow police officers to arrest and expel migrants, a victory for the federal government in its clash with Texas over immigration powers.

President Biden dared former President Donald J. Trump to “join me” in tightening security, while Mr. Trump blamed Mr. Biden for the country’s broken immigration system.

After leaving Venezuela, he entered the U.S. through Texas and stopped in New York before living in Georgia.

As residents lamented the killing of a 22-year-old woman, immigration policies in Georgia have come under renewed scrutiny, with state Republicans calling for stricter legislation.