The White House corrected some misconceptions Friday after President Trump suggested he was working on an executive order that would attempt to grant citizenship rights to illegal immigrant “Dreamers,” saying President Trump is actually talking about two different issues.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday formally embraced citizenship rights for 11 million illegal immigrants and a full erasure of all of President Trump’s effective border policies, as part of the party’s new "unity platform".
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has begun highlighting the results of its 287(g) partnerships in a monthly online report. The reports detail examples of enforcement actions made as a direct result of the cooperation agreements between state and local law enforcement partners and the federal agency.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) introduced a new bill to outlaw birth tourism, a practice popular among wealthy foreigners who obtain American citizenship for their children by giving birth on U.S. soil while on vacation.
Barriers along America's south -western border significantly reduce illegal immigration, especially by low-skilled migrants, a new study argues.
Supporters of mass immigration, illegal or otherwise, often say that immigrants take the jobs Americans just won't do, but most voters don’t agree. 54% of Likely U.S. Voters believe Americans would fill construction, technology, hospitality and other service jobs now taken by immigrants if the pay and working conditions were improved.
Despite growing anti-ICE sentiment and some high-profile defections, the Trump administration has managed to expand the number of jurisdictions that have agreed to cooperate with the Homeland Security Department to spot illegal aliens with criminal records who should be deported.
A federal judge in Washington struck down a Trump administration rule that would require migrants seeking to enter the U.S. to first seek asylum in countries they travel through on their way to the southern border.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) expressed support for President Donald Trump’s recent proclamation extending and expanding a temporary freeze on certain categories of visas as millions of American workers remain sidelined by the ongoing pandemic.
The Supreme Court upheld federal law on Thursday with a 7-2 ruling that asylum-seekers have no right to a federal court hearing before being removed from the U.S. The majority comprised all but two of the court’s more left-leaning justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, who dissented.