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September 17, 2019

Ken Cuccinelli: This Constitution Week, America welcomes 34,000 new legal citizens

Across the country this week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' (USCIS) will welcome over 34,000 new citizens at more than 300 special naturalization ceremonies in celebration of Constitution Week.

August 22, 2019

Bus companies reject calls to ban immigration agents from boarding

Despite calls for bus companies to refuse to allow federal immigration officials onboard, several coach companies say they will continue to cooperate.

June 21, 2019

Officials: Agents in impending ICE raid shouldn't expect cooperation from local authorities

Federal immigration agents can expect pushback from some public officials when they begin a mass roundup of migrant families with deportation orders, an operation slated to begin Sunday at the direction of President Trump.

April 19, 2019

New Mexico militia detains migrants at gunpoint until Border Patrol arrives: report

An armed right-wing militia group operating along the U.S.-Mexico border posted several videos to social media this week, including one in which they held about 200 asylum-seeking migrants at gunpoint near Sunland Park, NM until U.S. Border Patrol agents arrived, according to a report.

April 17, 2019

Barr rules to keep asylum seekers in detention during deportation proceedings

Attorney General William Barr has ruled that asylum seekers facing removal who show they have a “credible fear” of being returned to their homeland will no longer be eligible for release on bond -- meaning they will have to remain in detention while their cases are pending. 

March 19, 2019

Supreme Court hands Trump administration a victory in immigration battle

The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed the Trump administration a victory in its battle to clamp down on illegal immigration by making it easier to detain immigrants with criminal records.

March 7, 2019

9th Circuit rules asylum applicant has right to go before judge, setting up Supreme Court showdown

In a major break from another key appellate court, the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday ruled that a Sri Lankan man who failed his initial asylum screening has the constitutional right to go before a judge -- threatening to further clog the immigration court system with tens of thousands of similar claims, and setting up a virtually certain Supreme Court showdown.

November 8, 2018

What is DACA and what does the Trump administration want to do with it?

The Trump administration is dismantling an Obama-era program that, in part, allows for hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants to remain in the country.

July 9, 2018

Judge denies US claim on 2 of 3 California immigration laws

A federal judge has dismissed the federal government's claim that U.S. law trumps two California laws intended to protect immigrants who are in the country illegally.

July 2, 2018

Nonprofit operator of shelters for immigrant kids facing more questions

In the last decade, a Texas-based nonprofit that runs the nation’s largest network of shelters for migrant children saw the annual amount of money it got through federal contracts soar from $31 million to $459 million.