Immigration

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee last week.

House stalls impeachment of Homeland Secretary Mayorkas for handling of immigration

7:24am November 14, 2023

by The Associated Press

Hard-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene forced a vote on impeaching Mayorkas to the floor, but eight Republicans joined with Democrats to vote 209-201 to send Greene's resolution to committees.

A migrant family shows their paperwork to Mexican immigration officials to proceed with their CBP One asylum appointments at the Chaparral pedestrian border in Tijuana, Mexico to cross to the U.S. on Thursday.

Migrants are showing up at the U.S. Southern border in historic numbers. Here's why

1:20pm November 12, 2023

by Jasmine Garsd

The migrant surge at the Southern border hit a record of over 2.4 million. Republicans say it's a failure of Biden's policies. The U.N. says, globally, there's never been so many displaced people.

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The Aurora ICE Processing Center in Colorado currently holds more than 600 immigrant detainees on behalf of the federal government. The facility is operated by GEO Group, a for-profit government contractor.

Politics & Government

ICE releases investigation into immigrant's death after months of 'inexcusable' delay

9:26pm November 08, 2023

by Tom Dreisbach

Under pressure, the government released a report examining the death of an immigrant in ICE custody. The report found multiple failures, but did not indicate they caused the migrant's death.

Ángel Marín, his wife Carolina and their 4-year-old son, Matías, left Venezuela to try to start a life in the U.S.

World News

Why one family is joining a historic wave of Venezuelans migrating to the U.S.

11:07am October 31, 2023

by John Otis

Millions of Venezuelans have migrated to escape authoritarian rule and their country's worst economic crisis. For the first time, they're the largest group detained for entering the U.S. irregularly.

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Hundreds of migrants go to a Mexican migration office seeking information about victims of a fire inside a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, on March 28.

World News

A survivor recalls horrors of Mexico's migrant center fire that almost killed him

6:00am October 14, 2023

by James Fredrick

A man from El Salvador describes inhumane treatment by Mexican authorities leading up to the deadly fire at a migration detention in Mexico in March.

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Gabriel Berrio Fabré, 18, looks out the window of his room in Los Pocitos, Havana. He is a visual artist, and like most of his friends, he wants to leave Cuba once he finishes his studies.

The Farewell Generation: A look into the Cuban youth exodus through love stories

6:15am October 12, 2023

More Cubans have fled to live in the United States in 2022 and 2023 than the waves of migration in the '80s and '90s. Three couples' stories show the complex realities of the current exodus.

Immigrants from Venezuela crossed the Rio Grande from Mexico into the U.S. last month in Eagle Pass, Texas.

U.S. will resume deportation flights to Venezuela even as thousands flee that country

5:28pm October 05, 2023

by Joel Rose

The Biden administration says flights will resume immediately, its latest attempt to discourage Venezuelan migrants from making the dangerous journey to the U.S.-Mexico border.

Hundreds of people sleep in tents each day outside Bajo Chiquito, the first village that migrants encounter in Panama after making the grueling trek across the Darién jungle.

World News

A record 400K migrants have crossed the treacherous Darién jungle to reach the U.S.

5:11am October 05, 2023

by Manuel Rueda

Crossings of the dangerous Darién Gap have reached another record, as migrants seek protection or a better future in the United States but lack safer routes to get there.

Staten Island residents protest outside a closed Catholic school-turned-migrant shelter on Staten Island, N.Y., on Aug. 28.

National

On N.Y.'s Staten Island, anti-immigration protests intensify as migrants stream in

6:50am September 27, 2023

by Jasmine Garsd

New York City has been housing migrants in makeshift shelters throughout the city. In some areas, it has led to protests and court challenges.

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A family of five who said they were from Guatemala and a man in a pink shirt from Peru walk through the desert after crossing in the Tucson Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border last month.

National

Despite efforts of 3 U.S. administrations, migrant families keep crossing the border

8:17am September 23, 2023

by Joel Rose

Immigration authorities arrested more families in August than in any month on record. U.S. officials have long grappled with discouraging families from coming — and found there are no easy solutions.

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