IMMIGRATION

Immigration arrests along the U.S. southern border rose in May to the highest levels ever recorded, as growing numbers of migrants arrived from outside the Western Hemisphere, U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures show.

The federal program for young immigrants known as “dreamers” turns 10 on Wednesday, facing legal challenges that could end it before Congress decides whether to provide a path to U.S. citizenship.

The Biden administration next week will begin its overhauled process for screening migrants seeking humanitarian protection along the U.S. border.

The Biden administration’s plan to lift covid-era border restrictions Monday has triggered a debate where partisans tend to depict the policy known as Title 42 in sweeping terms.

In a series of public meetings Greene County, Iowa, a rural community, has been weighing how to stop its steep population decline, and this mostly White, mostly Republican stronghold has concluded that the only way to grow is to recruit Latino residents.

Statistics unveiled in the journal JAMA Surgery offer one of the first attempts to measure the toll of injury and death resulting from falls along new sections of the wall.

Better known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, it requires some asylum seekers who enter the country illegally to return to Mexico while they await a hearing.

It was unclear what effect, if any, the pending order could have on states’ efforts to force the White House to extend the pandemic-related restrictions on the border beyond May 23.

Spec. Bishop E. Evans, 22, died while trying to rescue migrants attempting to cross the border at the river, officials said.

A Texas National Guard soldier drowned early Friday as he attempted to rescue migrants caught in the swift currents of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Tex. The Guard member was deployed as part of Gov. Greg Abbott's border security initiative, Operation Lone Star.

The Republican governor of Texas is spearheading polarizing spectacles at the U.S.-Mexico border as he runs for reelection and looks ahead to 2024.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott last week said he would start sending migrants caught crossing the state's southern border to the U.S. Capitol.

Cuban migrants are coming to the United States in the highest numbers since the 1980 Mariel boatlift, this time arriving across the U.S. southern border, not by sea.

The Trump administration implemented the Title 42 order in March 2020, characterizing the measure as an emergency safeguard to prevent the spread of infection inside detention cells, border stations and other crowded settings.

Department of Homeland Security officials are making contingency plans for a record-breaking border surge in the coming weeks if the Biden administration allows the pandemic-era Title 42 public health order to lapse

After U.S. Customs and Border Protection denied entry to a single mother and her three children from Ukraine, top Senate Democrats demanded the end of a Trump-era expulsion policy.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump alleged that safety violations had “caused unspeakable loss of life and injury to these families, mostly from Africa.”

Following a court order, and after months of negotiations with Mexico, the Biden administration relaunched “Remain in Mexico” in early December. Immigration advocates were furious, but two months after its restart, the new version of the program bears little resemblance to President Donald Trump’s.