Attorneys and judges in U.S. immigration courts are trying to protect themselves from the coronavirus with borrowed masks and hand sanitizer.

Children’s rights advocates Wednesday filed papers in Los Angeles federal court seeking the emergency release of children in immigration custody due to worries of exposure to the COVID-19 virus. The National Center for Youth Law and other groups applied for a temporary restraining order seeking emergency relief on behalf of children and youth in the custody of the Office...

To reduce coronavirus transmission, the federal government has stopped conducting visa interviews for temporary farmworkers from Mexico who want to work in the United States — a move that could disrupt America’s supply of fresh fruit and vegetables, NBC News reports.

A group of Democratic San Diego city leaders urged immigrants and refugees Thursday to seek medical attention if warranted amid the coronavirus outbreak without fear of retribution. “No one should be afraid of going to the doctor and seeking medical care if they need it,” San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher said at a press conference on Thursday. “In the…

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is scaling back the aggressive operations it launched under President Donald Trump as the country contends with the new coronavirus outbreak.

The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to continue enforcing a policy that makes asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for U.S. court hearings, despite lower court rulings that the policy probably is illegal

The U.S. government says it’s sending 160 military police and engineers to two official border crossings to deal with asylum seekers in case a federal appeals court strikes down one of the Trump administration’s key policies

Peter Pan Bus Lines, a major Northeast carrier, will continue to allow federal immigration officials on its buses to conduct routine checks for immigrants living in the country illegally, saying it could help stem human trafficking, the company said this week. Peter Pan, based in Springfield, Massachusetts, “has always and will continue to cooperate with law enforcement,” Christopher Crean, vice…

The administration is seeking a sweeping ruling that it could potentially use to deport millions of people, even those arrested far from the border and who have been in the country for years, experts on the issue said.

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel voted unanimously Friday to suspend an order it issued earlier in the day to block a central pillar of the Trump administration’s policy requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. courts

The Trump administration can withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants to force states to cooperate with U.S. immigration enforcement, a federal appeals court in New York ruled Wednesday in a decision that conflicted with three other federal appeals courts. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan overturned a lower court’s decision ordering...

Advocates say new guidelines that disqualify more people from green cards if they use government benefits is prompting droves of immigrants to drop government social services

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) took the rare step of serving four subpoenas to the San Diego Sheriff’s Department (SDSO) last week.

Greyhound, the nation’s largest bus company, says it will stop allowing Border Patrol agents without a warrant to board its buses to conduct routine immigration checks

Greyhound, the nation’s largest bus company, says it will stop allowing Border Patrol agents without a warrant to board its buses to conduct routine immigration checks

U.S. immigration agents arrested at least three people at a Northern California courthouse, including a man detained in a hallway on his way to a hearing, in a move that appeared to flout a new state law requiring a judicial warrant to make immigration arrests inside such facilities.

A Venezuelan teenager has been forced back to Mexico by U.S. government authorities who denied her claims that she was fleeing political repression and violence, even after they accepted the same claims from her father.

For the first time, federal immigration authorities Friday served subpoenas on a local law enforcement agency in California in a bid to obtain migrant-arrest information protected by the state’s sanctuary state laws

Presidential candidate Joe Biden says it was a “big mistake” for the Obama administration to have deported hundreds of thousands of people without criminal records

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva is blasting reports the Trump administration plans to dispatch dozens of elite U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to so-called “sanctuary cities,” including Los Angeles, to enforce immigration laws. According to The New York Times, the agents are part of the Border Patrol Tactical Unit, or BORTAC. “I strongly oppose this irresponsible deployment...