After an Oregon senator was denied access to a detention center in Brownsville, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said he’s planning to draft a bill that would guarantee access to federal lawmakers visiting such facilities. “It’s important because they’re housing vulnerable…
Washington (CNN)- If there’s one person besides President Donald Trump who’s associated with his immigration policies, it’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Regardless of whether it’s his agency’s core jurisdiction. Sessions and the Justice Department have taken a lead role in…
SANDUSKY, Ohio — U.S. immigration agents made more than 100 arrests Tuesday at a gardening and landscaping company, aided by about 200 law enforcement workers in one of the largest employer stings in recent years. The 114 arrests occurred at…
PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration cannot cut off grants to Philadelphia over the way the city deals with immigrants in the country illegally. U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson said in his ruling Wednesday that…
House Republicans head into a critical two days of immigration negotiations Wednesday without a clear way to resolve a years-long, intraparty policy disagreement over the legal status of so-called “Dreamers” as the threat of a discharge petition lingers in the…
Josselin Contreras and two of her younger brothers were lost and thirsty, wandering alone on the Texas side of the Rio Grande, when Customs and Border Patrol officers caught them in the summer of 2014. Contreras, then 16, and her…
Six counties in Georgia have joined a federal program known as 287(g) that deputizes local law enforcement to effectively act as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. CBS News went to the Gwinnett County Jail to see how the…
Sacramento County is out of the odious business of warehousing undocumented immigrants for profit. By a 3-2 vote on Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors voted not to renew a five-year-old contract that the county had with the U.S Department of…
Fleeing an abusive ex-husband in Brazil, Jocelyn and her fourteen-year-old son, James, made their way north last summer. On August 26, 2017, they reached the U.S.-Mexico border near Santa Teresa, New Mexico, just west of El Paso. They crossed the…
Washington (CNN)- US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley rebuked the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for “hypocrisy” in its call for an end to a Trump administration policy that could lead to the separation…