Latest Immigration News

Homeland Security says border arrests fall more than 40% since Biden's halt to asylum processing

Jun. 26, 2024 07:28 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Arrests for illegal border crossings dropped more than 40% during the three weeks that asylum processing has been suspended, the Homeland Security Department said Wednesday. The Border Patrol's average daily arrests over a seven-day period have fallen below 2,400,...

Fed up with the UK Conservatives, some voters turn to the anti-immigration Reform party for answers

Jun. 26, 2024 07:21 AM EDT

CLACTON-ON-SEA, England (AP) — Dorothy Carr is fed up with how things are run in her hometown. It’s impossible to get a doctor's appointment through Britain's state-run health care system. Local buses have been canceled. There isn’t enough public housing. Like many others in...

Judge sets $10M bond for second Venezuelan man accused of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl

Jun. 25, 2024 15:10 PM EDT

HOUSTON (AP) — A second Venezuelan man living in the U.S. illegally and accused of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl was ordered on Tuesday to be held on a $10 million bond. Johan Jose Martinez-Rangel, 22, is one of two men charged with capital murder in Jocelyn Nungaray’s...

Judge sets $10 million bond for Venezuelan man accused of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl

Jun. 24, 2024 19:13 PM EDT

HOUSTON (AP) — A judge in Texas set bond of $10 million Monday for an undocumented Venezuelan man accused of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl whose body was found in a creek after she disappeared during a walk to a convenience store. Franklin Jose Peña Ramos, 26, is one of two...

Trump endorses Ten Commandments in schools, implores evangelical Christians to vote in November

Jun. 22, 2024 21:13 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump told a group of evangelicals they “cannot afford to sit on the sidelines” of the 2024 election, imploring them at one point to “go and vote, Christians, please!" Trump also endorsed displaying the Ten Commandments in schools and elsewhere while...

Attorneys say Biden administration’s new safety standards for migrant children in custody not enough

Jun. 21, 2024 17:04 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Attorneys for migrant children who arrived to the United States on their own say the Biden administration’s new rules are not enough to ensure their safety while they are in U.S. custody and should not replace a decades-old agreement from a court settlement that requires...

Capital murder charges filed against 2 Venezuelan men in the death of a 12-year-old girl in Houston

Jun. 21, 2024 16:59 PM EDT

Prosecutors filed capital murder charges Friday against two men suspected of killing a 12-year-old Houston girl whose body was found in a creek after she disappeared during a walk to a convenience store. The charging documents filed in Harris County, Texas, court do not list...

The Supreme Court rules against California woman whose husband was denied entry to US

Jun. 21, 2024 16:33 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday ruled against a California woman who said her rights were violated after federal officials refused to allow her husband into the country, in part, because of the way his tattoos were interpreted. The 6-3 decision along ideological...

Biden's 2 steps on immigration could reframe how US voters see a major political problem for him

Jun. 21, 2024 13:41 PM EDT

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Over the course of two weeks, President Joe Biden has imposed significant restrictions on immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. while also offering potential citizenship to hundreds of thousands of people without legal status already living in the country. The...

Trump proposes green cards for foreign grads of US colleges, departing from anti-immigrant rhetoric

Jun. 20, 2024 22:25 PM EDT

MIAMI (AP) — Former President Donald Trump said in an interview posted Thursday he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. colleges, a sharp departure from the anti-immigrant rhetoric he typically uses on the campaign trail. Trump was asked...