Texas trooper alleges inhumane treatment of migrants along border
Efforts by Texas officials to deter illegal crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border have placed migrants at risk of drowning or being cut by razor wire, a Texas trooper alleged.
U.S. has accepted half a million migrants under legal migration expansion
The Biden administration has used a little-known law to admit hundreds of thousands of Afghan evacuees, Latin American migrants and Ukrainian refugees in less than two years.
Migrant crossings along U.S.-Mexico border plummeted in June
The last time Border Patrol apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border were lower was in February 2021, President Biden's first full month in the White House.
Migrant child dies in U.S. custody, the 4th such death this year
The girl from Guatemala with a pre-existing medical condition died in U.S. custody earlier this week after crossing the southern border in May.
U.S. opens new legal path for Central American, Colombian immigrants
The Biden administration has made the expansion of legal migration a cornerstone of its revamped strategy to reduce unauthorized border crossings.
Watchdog faults "ineffective" process for release of migrant on terror watchlist
A report from the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general focused on the release of a migrant in 2022 who was later found to be on the FBI's terrorist watchlist.
Migrant boat disaster: What to know about the tragedy off Greece's coast
While 100 migrants were rescued at sea, Greek officials have confirmed over 80 drownings and roughly 500 people are still missing and feared to be dead.
Migrant children to be housed in former North Carolina boarding school
The former home of a boarding school, the campus will house migrant boys and girls between the ages of 13 and 17 who entered U.S. border custody without their parents.
Supreme Court allows Biden administration to limit immigration arrests
The court found that Texas and Louisiana, the two states that brought the suit, lacked standing to challenge the administration's guidelines.
Child evacuated from Afghanistan in 2021 dies in federal U.S. custody
The boy was one of hundreds of Afghan children who arrived to the U.S. in 2021 without their parents after being evacuated from Afghanistan.
Border concerns prompted U.S. officials to decline granting status to migrants
A proposal to give nearly 400,000 migrants the opportunity to live and work in the U.S. legally was not authorized due to concerns about triggering a spike in border crossings.
U.S. extends temporary legal status Trump sought to end for certain immigrants
The move will allow 337,000 immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua to continue living in the U.S. under the Temporary Protected Status policy.
Nurse denied ambulance requests before migrant child died, officials say
Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who suffered from sickle cell anemia and heart disease, died after she and her family spent over a week in Border Patrol custody.
Asylum limits justified given "sheer number" of migrants, top official says
The rules ban many migrants from asylum if they don't wait for an appointment to enter the U.S. at an official border crossing.
U.S. plans to admit nearly 40,000 asylum-seekers per month through app
U.S. officials are preparing to distribute 1,250 appointments each day to migrants in Mexico so they can present themselves at ports of entry for an opportunity to be allowed to seek asylum.