Immigration

In a camp at the U.S.-Mexico border, some asylum seekers were told by officials that the U.S. government would reopen their cases and they would eventually be able to enter the U.S. to wait out the asylum process

U.S. immigration authorities will no longer use a small detention center in Berks County, Pennsylvania, to hold parents and children seeking asylum

Busloads of asylum seekers have started to arrive in Tucson, Arizona, for the first time since President Joe Biden began reversing border policies implemented by former President Donald Trump, city officials said.

The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to dismiss three lawsuits over a Trump-era immigration policy that led some areas to declare themselves “sanctuary cities,” NBC News reports.

The Supreme Court has made it harder for longtime immigrants who have been convicted of a crime to avoid deportation

U.S. Customs and Border Protection had 1,763 unaccompanied migrant children in its custody as of Tuesday, 625 of whom had been held more than 72 hours, the legal limit for holding children in CBP’s border processing facilities, according to internal CBP data obtained by NBC News.

Many youths who could benefit from the DACA program are not taking advantage of an immigration opportunity.

The move comes as President Biden and Democrats in Congress look to immigration as one of their next major legislative priorities.

The Biden administration’s task force for reuniting migrant families separated by the Trump administration will allow separated families “the option of being reunified either in the United States or their county of origin,” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said at a news briefing on Monday.

They’ve spent nearly two years in tent encampments in Mexico along the border with the U.S. and on Friday, some of the first migrants who are now allowed to come into the country under new rules from the Biden administration, will cross over.

President Joe Biden has lifted a Trump-era ban issued during the pandemic that lawyers said was blocking most legal immigration

The lawyers working to reunite immigrant parents and children separated by the Trump administration reported on Wednesday that they have found the parents of 105 children in the past month, NBC News reports.

A federal judge has indefinitely banned President Joe Biden’s administration from enforcing a 100-day moratorium on most deportations

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday filed a lawsuit against Libre by Nexus, claiming the company trapped immigrants into paying expensive fees.

The first small group of asylum-seekers to be allowed into the United States under the Biden administration’s recent changes will come into the country Friday through a U.S.-Mexico border crossing in south San Diego County.

The bill would provide millions with a pathway to citizenship. Jonathan Gonzalez reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021.

The Biden administration is moving to restore the asylum system to the way it worked for decades by releasing a group of asylum-seekers into the U.S. It ends their long wait in Mexico and unravels a key anti-immigration policy of former President Donald Trump

The delays constitute another challenge to the country’s ability to recruit and retain highly educated, highly skilled students and workers from abroad.

Congressional Democrats and the Biden administration have unveiled a broad immigration bill that would provide an eight-year pathway to citizenship for 11 million people living in the country without legal status

Edith Espinal, an undocumented immigrant who had to live in a church for the last three years to avoid deportation, has been cleared to leave and live with her family.