immigration

U.S. Agency Tightens Immigration Rules To Spotlight Child Marriage

6:07pm February 15, 2019

by Sasha Ingber

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services released new rules for officers to identify visa petitions in which spouses are minors. No minimum age requirement for such requests currently exists.

Politics & Government

As Local Agencies Drop Ties, ICE Steps Up Detentions In NC

2:04pm February 11, 2019

by Paul Garber

Federal immigration agents arrested hundreds of immigrants last week that they say are in the country illegally.

President Trump speaks on a deal to end the partial government shutdown last month. While Trump is expected to maintain his demand for border wall funding in his State of the Union speech, he is also expected to mention issues that carry bipartisan suppor

Politics & Government

In The Shadow Of The Wall, Trump Will Deliver The State Of The Union

5:01am February 05, 2019

by Tamara Keith

The border wall fight has swamped all else on President Trump's agenda for weeks. Tuesday night's address could be a chance for him to reset the conversation. But will it?

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Muneer Subaihani at the airport in Baghdad on Tuesday, waiting to board the first of his flights back to the United States.

Iraqi Has Returned To U.S. After ICE Deported Him Against Court Orders

7:13pm January 31, 2019

Muneer Subaihani says immigration agents told him he would be in jail for life if he didn't agree to be deported to Iraq. On Tuesday, in a rare event, he was admitted back into the U.S.

Carlos Catarldo Gomez, of Honduras, center, is escorted by Mexican officials after leaving the United States, the first person returned to Mexico to wait for his asylum trial date, in Tijuana, Mexico

Trump Administration Begins 'Remain In Mexico' Policy, Sending Asylum-Seekers Back

10:37pm January 29, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

The new procedure is designed to prevent applicants from remaining in the U.S. while they await a hearing before an immigration judge.

Children of Mexican immigrants wait to receive a free health checkup inside a mobile clinic at the Mexican Consulate in Denver, Colo., in 2009. The Trump administration wants to ratchet up scrutiny of the use of social services by immigrants. That's alrea

Fear Of Deportation Or Green Card Denial Deters Some Parents From Getting Kids Care

7:40am January 26, 2019

by Ashley Lopez

A Texas girl needs autism treatment, but her immigrant mother is afraid of turning to Medicaid. As more U.S. children go without health coverage, border watchers partly blame politics of intimidation.

Honduran asylum seekers enter the U.S. at San Diego's Otay Mesa port of entry, as seen from Tijuana, Mexico.

National

U.S. Plans To Enforce 'Remain In Mexico' Policy on Central American Asylum Seekers

10:37pm January 24, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

The plan, expected to meet with a swift legal challenge, comes out of talks with Mexican officials. The administration plans to roll it out first at the San Ysidro, Calif., port of entry.

An image of a boy is painted on the bars of the border wall, in front of coils of razor wire, seen from Tijuana, Mexico. President Trump's proposal to end the partial government shutdown includes funding for more border wall, but also provisions that furt

National

The Border Wall Isn't The Only Reason Democrats Oppose Plan To End The Shutdown

11:21pm January 22, 2019

by Joel Rose

Democrats and immigrant rights advocates say the President's proposal to end the shutdown contains big changes to asylum law that they're calling a "poison pill."

Honduran migrants wait in line to cross over the border checkpoint into Guatemala in Agua Caliente, Honduras. A new caravan of at least several hundred Hondurans has set off toward the United States on foot or in vehicles. Some have already crossed into G

Honduran Caravan Crosses Guatemala, Traveling Toward U.S.

10:22am January 16, 2019

by Matthew S. Schwartz

The caravan, which could consist of up to 2,000 migrants, began its journey from Honduras on Monday. The migrants have already become symbols in the ongoing battle over border security.

An employee of Tokyo Electric Power Co. works at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant to decontaminate the area after the 2011 nuclear meltdown. A Vietnamese laborer in Japan on a training program says he was also put to work cleaning up the sit

World News

As Japan Tries Out Immigration, Migrant Workers Complain Of Exploitation

2:24pm January 15, 2019

A Vietnamese laborer tells NPR he was led to believe he would learn construction work but ended up cleaning up the Fukushima nuclear site. Migrant advocates say Japan needs to overhaul the program.