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Venezuelan migrants in Colombia walk toward the border amid the coronavirus lockdown. Colombian officials say 12,000 Venezuelans have taken buses back to their home country since Colombia imposed restrictions to stop the outbreak.

Thousands Of Migrants Head Back To Venezuela To Flee Colombia's COVID-19 Lockdown

1:41pm April 28, 2020

by John Otis

Colombian officials say 12,000 Venezuelans have taken buses back to their home country since Colombia imposed restrictions to stop the coronavirus outbreak. Many other Venezuelans are fleeing on foot.

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Women wearing face masks stand at a safe distance to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus, as they wait for food assigned to their children outside a school in Xesuj, Guatemala, where many residents depend on remittances, largely from the U.S. The

COVID-19 Is Cutting Into Vital Money U.S. Migrant Workers Send Back Home

5:24pm April 17, 2020

by Carrie Kahn

A remittances expert estimates the money sent back to Latin America and the Caribbean could decline by 7%.

A sign on a vehicle during a protest outside an ICE detention center in Colorado. Immigration lawyers are calling for the release of detainees as the coronavirus spreads at ICE facilities around the country.

ICE Releases Hundreds Of Immigrants As Coronavirus Spreads in Detention Centers

1:21pm April 16, 2020

by Matt Katz

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, concerns have risen about safety in immigration detention centers, where social distancing is difficult.

An immigration worker in an orange jacket carries a young Guatemalan deported from the U.S., followed by another deportee, at La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City on March 12.

Official Alleges The U.S. Has Deported Many COVID-19-Positive Migrants To Guatemala

11:43pm April 15, 2020

by Maria Martin

Health Minister Hugo Monroy said deportees from the United States now account for a large number of coronavirus cases in the country, although Guatemala's president has cited only four cases.

The Senate Relief Bill Provides Economic Relief — But Not To Some Immigrants

7:21pm March 26, 2020

by Joel Rose

Immigrant advocates are unhappy that the Senate bill excludes undocumented and mixed-status families from one-time cash payments and access to health care.

Clothing hangs to dry at a makeshift migrant camp for asylum seekers in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, Mexico, on earlier this month. About 60,000 migrants live in filthy and dangerous conditions as they await their day in U.S. immigration court.

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U.S. Supreme Court Allows 'Remain In Mexico' Program To Continue

6:47pm March 11, 2020

by Vanessa Romo

The high court will allow the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" policy to stand across the entire southern border. The decision marks another immigration victory for the White House.

Honduran migrants wait in line to plead their asylum cases earlier this month at a border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico.

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Court Blocks Trump's 'Remain In Mexico' Policy Along Part Of The Border

1:43pm March 05, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

The 9th Circuit said the policy, which forces asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico, may violate the law. But judges were prepared to block the policy in two states only, starting next week.

Politics & Government

ICE Detains 3 Winston-Salem Residents

11:49am March 03, 2020

by Neal Charnoff

Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have detained three Winston-Salem residents suspected of being in the country illegally.

Ken Cuccinelli speaks on Feb. 7 in Washington, D.C. A federal judge said his appointment to lead USCIS was unlawful.

Judge Says Ken Cuccinelli Was Appointed Unlawfully To Top Immigration Post

11:23pm March 01, 2020

by James Doubek

The ruling by a federal judge on Sunday invalidates two directives issued by Cuccinelli at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that were designed to tighten federal asylum guidelines.

Migrants, pictured in September 2019, apply for asylum in the United States in a tent courtroom in Laredo, Texas. On Jan. 2, the U.S. government began sending asylum-seekers back to Nogales, Mexico, to await court hearings that will be scheduled roughly 3

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Federal Court Suspends Injunction On Trump's 'Remain In Mexico' Program

11:43pm February 28, 2020

by Vanessa Romo

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals first ruled to uphold a lower-court's injunction on the controversial policy, but later the same day voted to suspend its own order to allow more time for arguments.