WASHINGTON – Mayors of Tucson and Mesa agreed Wednesday that immigration reform is badly needed to address the current situation at the border, but they are not confident it can get done in the current fractured political climate. The comments…
Ann Finch said that when she saw news stories about what was happening in Afghanistan after U.S. troops pulled out in August, she knew she wanted to do something to help. She started calling around her church, the Westlake United…
Asylum seekers pleading their immigration cases in Houston are among the least likely to win their cases to lawfully remain in the United States, according to a new report looking at 62 immigration courts across the country. Despite Houston’s reputation…
CHICAGO (AP) — An Illinois law aimed at ending federal immigration detention in the New Year has hit another legal snag, delaying a change immigrant rights activists had celebrated as historic. Local governments in Illinois cannot enter into new federal…
(CNN) – President Joe Biden kicked off his administration with lofty goals to revamp America’s immigration system, but with the end of the year approaching, lawsuits and infighting have stalled policy changes, officials have fielded criticism from allies and critics…
While Texas AG Ken Paxton casts unauthorized immigrants as costly “burden,” experts say they actually generate a net benefit for the state. The last official look – not updated – is 15 years old. AUSTIN — As he celebrated an…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – As Gov. Ron DeSantis launched another broadside against the federal government’s immigration policies, the state on Friday said it is dropping a legal challenge against the Biden administration over immigration directives issued early this year. Attorney General…
Operation Lone Star is “ironically allowing some of our clients to access asylum proceedings” that they normally would have been cut off from, one attorney said. A border operation launched by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to arrest undocumented immigrants has…
The Maryland General Assembly overrode Gov. Larry Hogan’s vetoes on bills designed to protect immigrants earlier this year during its special legislative session Tuesday. Earlier this year, the Maryland legislature passed two bills, HB16 and HB23. Both bills aimed to…
BATON ROUGE, La. – Detention facilities in Louisiana that lost population and funding under Gov. John Bel Edwards criminal justice reform measures have benefited contracts to house asylum seekers. In some cases, facilities did not meet the federal goverment’s criteria…
