McALLEN, Texas —Texas’ plan to arrest migrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally is on hold while the Supreme Court considers a challenge to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s latest move over immigration. The nation’s highest court put the law on ...
Jozef has set up a new center to keep up with the new migrants that she has welcomed into Southern California. Since May, Los Angeles has welcomed 1,300 people from Texas. Jozef said organizations like hers have helped the vast majority connect with sponsors or even found them places ...
Migrants spend the night outside, near the U.S.-Mexico border fence while waiting to make asylum claims in El Paso, Texas on Dec. 21, 2022 as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.John Moore/Getty Images, FILE Eleanor Acer, the director of Refugee Protection at Human Rights First...
Once in custody, migrants could either agree to a Texas judge’s order to leave the U.S. or be prosecuted on misdemeanor charges of illegal entry. The law says they are to be sent to ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border, even if they are ...
While helping fuel economic growth, immigrants also lie at the heart of an incendiary election-year debate over the control of the nation's Southern border. In his bid to return to the White House, Donald Trump has attacked migrants in often-degrading terms,characterizing...
It's one of many spots along the Texas border where coils of sharp wire have been going up ever since Gov. Abbott launched Operation Lone Star in 2021. Since then, thousands of migrants have been arrested and detained on trespassing charges. ...
Trump has repeatedly attacked Biden’s immigration policy over the surge in migrants at the Southern border. Only about 27% of the 3.3 million foreigners who entered the United States last year did so through as “lawful permanent residents’’ or on temporary visas, according to Edelbe...
A Mission Police Dept. officer and a U.S. Border Patrol agent watch over a group of Central American asylum seekers before taking them into custody, June 12, 2018, near McAllen, Texas.John Moore/Getty Images How many migrant children are detained in the EU?
Migrants didn’t arrive in busloads, as the Texas governor threatened. And though there were some arrests, violence didn’t consume the events of the week. POLITICO asked Mayor Brandon Johnson if he had been worried about how the week might go: “I don’t know what worrying ...
While the administration has said many Ukrainians are only looking for a temporary safe haven, those who decide to stay in the U.S. permanently after being granted parole could find themselves facing the same legal limbo faced bytens of thousandsof Afghan evacuees who entered the U.S. under...