immigration

Republican Lawmakers Propose New Law To Reduce Legal Immigration

10:48pm February 07, 2017

by John Burnett

Republican senators have introduced a bill to reduce legal immigration numbers to the U.S. With the ascendance of Trump, an anti-immigrant faction has moved from the fringe into the mainstream.

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Can The Trump Adminstration Reinstate Its Travel Ban? It's In Judges' Hands

10:10pm February 07, 2017

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Tuesday over whether the ban should remain on hold. Here are the points lawyers for the U.S. and Washington state governments tried to make.

Betsy Jenson sorts through donated kitchenware, bed sheets and other household goods inside a storage area for the Nationalities Service Center in Philadelphia. The refugee resettlement agency uses donations to furnish apartments for newly arrived refugee

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Resettlement Groups Glad For Stay Of Trump's Refugee Plan, But Still Worried

10:50pm February 06, 2017

by Hansi Lo Wang

Refugees and resettlement agencies around the U.S. are facing uncertainty as the courts decide what happens to the U.S. refugee program, but donations for refugees are piling up as agencies wait.

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Lufthansa airplanes parked in front of an airport in Munich, Germany, in November 2016. Lufthansa is among the airlines that have announced they will resume boarding travelers affected by President Trump's executive order.

DOJ Files Notice To Appeal Ruling That Blocks Trump's Immigration Order

8:58pm February 04, 2017

by Colin Dwyer

The Trump administration plans to appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the Feb. 3 ruling by Judge James Robart in Washington state.

President Trump speaks on the phone with Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, during the first official phone talks in the Oval Office last Saturday.

Fact Checking This Week In The Trump Administration

2:44pm February 04, 2017

The White House made inaccurate assertions about the president's travel ban, the reshuffling of the National Security Council and even about a massacre — that never took place.

An employee delivers new passports at the main Baghdad Passport office in the Iraqi capital in 2015.

Trump Backers Want Ideology Test For Extreme Vetting

9:48am February 04, 2017

What could "extreme vetting" mean in practice? For some who've helped form President Trump's refugee policies, it's not about stricter security screening. It's about something else.

Ali Vayeghan (left), an Iranian citizen with a valid U.S. visa, arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on Thursday after initially being turned away. He was allowed to come back under a federal judge's order.

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Federal Judge Stays Trump Travel Order, But Many Visas Already Revoked

10:46pm February 03, 2017

by Rebecca Hersher

Some 60,000 visas were canceled, says the State Department, a number higher than previous estimates of how many people had been barred from entering. The White House promised a quick legal response.

Khalif Abdi Nur and his family sold their home and shop to buy suitcases for their move to the U.S.

'Only God And Trump Knows' Our Fate: A Dispatch From World's Largest Refugee Camp

3:02pm February 03, 2017

by Eyder Peralta

With the stroke of a pen, the new U.S. president threw thousands of lives into disarray. At the Dadaab camp in Kenya, people who have been in the resettlement process for years were at a loss.

A Yemeni business owner closes the gate to his store Thursday in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Across the city, Yemeni-owned bodega and grocery stores will shut down from noon to 8 p.m. to protest President Trump's executive order banning immigra

New York City Bodegas Strike To Protest Trump's Travel Ban

7:26pm February 02, 2017

by Maria Godoy

Yemeni-owned shops shut their doors for eight hours across the five boroughs. Organizers say many owners were personally affected by the ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations.

Politics & Government

Where Does Your Member Of Congress Stand On Trump's Immigration Order?

3:38pm February 01, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley, Brett Neely

NPR and dozens of member stations wanted to help the public understand where its lawmakers stand on the issue. Find our interactive tracker here.