Immigration

America has been considered the premier destination for international students, with the promise of an education at top-notch universities leading to job opportunities.

It was a debate topic Thursday night, the president said it was the Obama administration that built the so-called “cages” where kids awaited their hearings, but the former vice president argued the current administration is the one that expanded family separation. John Cádiz Klemack reports for NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on Oct. 23, 2020.

After allegations of forced hysterectomies and other disturbing medical practices were raised about a Georgia immigrant detention facility, the private company that runs this facility and others has come under scrutiny. Noah Bookbinder, the executive director of CREW, unpacks the allegations against LaSalle Corrections and why he hopes Congress will get involved.

A federal judge is urging the Trump administration to do more to help court-appointed researchers find hundreds of parents who are still separated from their children three years after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border

A federal judge has ordered the release of some detainees at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California following a COVID-19 outbreak at the facility and an ACLU lawsuit saying they were not being protected from the coronavirus. But ACLU attorney Ahilan Arulanantham says the safety precautions in place now are still not strong enough to keep them safe.

With the elections just around the corner, DACA recipients fear the program that benefits thousands of young immigrants will be completely eliminated, if President Donald Trump is reelected.

Lawyers appointed by a federal judge to identify migrant families who were separated by the Trump administration say they have yet to track down the parents of 545 children, and that approximately two-thirds of those parents were deported to Central America without their children, according to a filing from the ACLU on Tuesday.

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases involving Trump administration policies at the U.S.-Mexico border: one about a policy that makes asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for U.S. court hearings and a second about the administration’s use of money to fund the border wall

A new draft report by the Justice Department inspector general reveals that top officials in the Trump administration were a driving force behind the separation of thousands of migrant families at the U.S. border with Mexico. The CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, breaks down what this new report tells us about the motives behind this...

The Trump administration stealthily deported an unknown number of Venezuelans through a third country, possibly violating U.S. laws and undermining U.S. warnings about the socialist government’s human rights record

Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley is joining a growing chorus of voices seeking answers following an incident on Tuesday where a jogger recorded video of an encounter with federal agents in Boston. Pressley, a Democrat, sent a letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Thursday expressing concern over the incident, in which Bena Apreala, who is Black, said he was...

The Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced Wednesday that a statewide enforcement operation that wrapped up last weekend resulted in the arrests of more than 125 immigrants across California, nearly 100 of them in the Los Angeles area.

Ahead of tonight’s high-stake vice presidential debate, we looked into where Vice President Mike Pence and Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris stand on some key issues: health care, immigration and consumer protection.

Latino workers, especially those who are immigrants, continue to be at increased risk of dying on the job, according to a report published Tuesday by the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest federation of unions.

Top former Justice Department officials, including U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and deputy Rod Rosenstein, helped drive a Trump administration policy that resulted in the separation of children from their parents, a draft inspector general report shows.

First lady Melania Trump expressed support for the care that migrant children separated from their families received in U.S. detention centers and cast doubt on the authenticity of some immigrants’ stories of fleeing danger in their home countries during a series of recordings aired Thursday

A federal judge on Tuesday halted major fee increases for citizenship and other immigration benefits three days before they were to take effect, saying the last two chiefs of the Homeland Security Department were likely appointed illegally.

Four first-time voters who just became U.S. citizens share how they’re feeling ahead of the November election. “It’s the least that I could do for this country,” said Ashley Lagat, a New York nurse who came to the U.S. from the Philippines when she was 20.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Monday written by Assemblyman Todd Gloria, D-San Diego, which is intended to end the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s practice of accessing gas and electric customer utility data to facilitate deportations.

Tens of thousands of refugees fleeing wars and persecution who were welcomed into the U.S. are now American citizens voting the first time in what could be the most consequential presidential election of their lifetimes