Latest Immigration News

Judge partially ends court oversight of migrant children, chipping away at 27-year arrangement

Jun. 28, 2024 22:35 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Friday approved the Biden administration’s request to partially end a nearly three-decade-old agreement to provide court oversight of how the government cares for migrant children in its custody. U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee ruled that...

Federal judge temporarily stops Oklahoma from enforcing new anti-immigration law

Jun. 28, 2024 21:06 PM EDT

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge granted a motion Friday to temporarily stop Oklahoma from enforcing its new anti-immigration law that would make it a crime to live in the state without legal immigration status. U.S. District Judge Bernard M. Jones issued a preliminary...

Driver convicted in deaths of 8 people struck by SUV outside migrant shelter sentenced to 60 years

Jun. 28, 2024 19:34 PM EDT

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury on Friday found a driver guilty of intoxication manslaughter over the deaths of eight people who were struck by an SUV that plowed into a crowded bus stop outside a migrant shelter on the U.S.-Mexico border. George Alvarez, 35, was found...

Trump's debate references to 'Black jobs' and 'Hispanic jobs' stir Democratic anger

Jun. 28, 2024 18:04 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump warned during his debate with Joe Biden and again at a Friday rally that migrants were taking “Black jobs” and “Hispanic jobs” from Americans, angering critics who called it a racist and insulting attempt to expand his appeal beyond his white conservative...

Shares of Trump Media swing wildly after first US presidential debate, fall 10%

Jun. 28, 2024 16:45 PM EDT

Trump Media fell more than 10% Friday after the first U.S. presidential debate, demonstrating another of the wild swings that have made its stock one of the more volatile on Wall Street. Shares in the owner of social networking site Truth Social jumped 5% at the opening bell and...

Nigel Farage criticizes racist remarks by Reform UK worker. But he later called it a 'stitch-up'

Jun. 28, 2024 14:09 PM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Anti-immigration British politician Nigel Farage on Friday criticized a worker for his Reform UK party who suggested migrants crossing the English Channel in boats should be used for “target practice.” But Farage later suggested that the episode had been a...

Emails sent to a Chinese dissident in the Netherlands about his family were fake, officials say

Jun. 28, 2024 11:53 AM EDT

BANGKOK (AP) — Emails sent to a Chinese dissident living in the Netherlands over his petition for asylum for his family members detained last year in Thailand were apparently fake, Dutch authorities said Friday. The announcement was the first public statement from officials in the...

Debate takeaways: Trump confident, even when wrong, Biden halting, even with facts on his side

Jun. 28, 2024 09:32 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The presidential debate was a re-run that featured two candidates with a combined age of 159, but it went especially poorly for one of them, President Joe Biden. Already fighting voter concerns about his age, Biden, 81, was halting and seemed to lose his train of...

FACT FOCUS: Here's a look at some of the false claims made during Biden and Trump's first debate

Jun. 28, 2024 06:28 AM EDT

President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump traded barbs and a variety of false and misleading information as they faced off in their first debate of the 2024 election. Trump falsely represented the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as a relatively small number of people...

Indonesia detains 103 Taiwanese in a raid in Bali involving suspected cybercrime

Jun. 28, 2024 00:00 AM EDT

DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian immigration authorities have detained 103 Taiwanese people after a raid at a villa on the resort island of Bali, officials said Friday. They were accused of misusing their visas and residence permits and are suspected of possible cybercrimes,...