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— EMBARGO: NO ELECTRONIC DISTRIBUTION, WEB POSTING OR STREET SALES BEFORE 3:01 A.M. ET ON TUESDAY, MAY 16, 2023. NO EXCEPTIONS FOR ANY REASONS — A U.S. Border Patrol agent lines up migrants who had waited for days to be processed at a detention center in Jacumba, Calif., May 14, 2023. Fears of chaos at the southern border eased as arrivals ebbed after an initial surge of about 10,000 migrants just hours before the Title 42 pandemic immigration restrictions expired. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times) XNYT180 XNYT180

May 19, 2023 at 6:01 pm

Border crossings down, but many migrants released to U.S. to ease crowding

But unpublished data obtained by The Washington Post on Friday show far more migrants were released into the U.S. over the past week than deported...

Migrants from all over the world arrive in large groups in the middle of the night to surrender to the Border Patrol.

February 8, 2023 at 6:38 pm

Biden weighs border deal that would deport non-Mexicans to Mexico

With pandemic-related emergency border restrictions scheduled to expire, Biden officials are moving to implement a new enforcement model ahead of the presidential election.

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November 15, 2022 at 2:14 pm

Judge tosses migrant expulsion policy known as Title 42

The decision knocks down one of the last remaining barriers to asylum from the Trump administration, and poses an immediate challenge for his successor.

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July 28, 2022 at 6:58 pm

Jan. 6 texts missing for Trump Homeland Security’s Wolf and Cuccinelli

This discovery of missing records for the senior-most homeland security officials increases the volume of potential evidence that has vanished.

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Yolanda Olivares, mother of Yovani and Jair Valencia Olivares, arranges an altar with the photographs of her missing children, in front of her home in San Marcos Atexquilapan, Veracruz state, Mexico, Thursday, June 30, 2022. Neighbors prayed for the youths who are missing after confirming that they were traveling in the abandoned trailer in San Antonio, Texas, where more than 50 bodies of migrants were found. (AP Photo/Yerania Rolon) MXEV101 MXEV101

June 30, 2022 at 6:30 pm

Driver charged in truck smuggling tragedy was high on meth, official says

The alleged smuggler had tried to hide in the brush as authorities pulled the bodies of dozens of lifeless migrants from the 18-wheeler he'd just...

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May 20, 2022 at 3:34 pm

Federal judge in Louisiana blocks Biden administration from ending Title 42

The nationwide preliminary injunction means the Department of Homeland Security is expected to continue expelling migrants as the suit makes its way through the courts.

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April 13, 2022 at 11:26 am

First busload of migrants from Texas arrives in Washington, D.C.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials in Del Rio said they had no role in the Texas governor's plan.

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March 22, 2022 at 3:22 pm

Federal court partially blocks Biden ‘priority’ system for immigration enforcement

A federal judge has blocked some elements of the Biden administration's attempt to limit deportations — potentially leaving more people subject to arrest.

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FILE – A Border Patrol agent fills out paperwork for migrants who surrendered in Yuma, Ariz., Feb. 5, 2022, after crossing the border illegally from Los Algodones, Mexico. Chris Magnus has many challenges to overcome in his new role as commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection. In an interview on Feb. 8, with The Associated Press, Magnus acknowledged morale problems within the nation’s largest law enforcement agency but offered no quick answers to the heavy migration flow to the U.S., which attracts more asylum seekers than any other country. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat, File) NYPH903 NYPH903

March 4, 2022 at 1:06 pm

Court: U.S. may expel migrant families — but not to where they could face persecution

The ruling's impact on border proceedings was unclear, but analysts said it would require the government to introduce new screening procedures.

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FILE – Migrant teens eat lunch at a “tender-age” facility for babies, children and teens, in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, on Aug. 29, 2019, in San Benito, Texas. The American Civil Liberties Union says the Department of Justice has withdrawn from talks to settle lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who were separated under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance border enforcement policy. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) WX135 WX135

January 4, 2022 at 4:30 pm

Biden faces highly charged legal fight with migrants whose children were taken away under Trump

At least 19 lawsuits, and hundreds of administrative complaints, have been filed against the U.S. government by migrants who say their children were separated from...