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May 22, 2018 at 5:49 pm

Companies squeezed by labor shortage welcome immigrants

With baby boomers retiring and U.S. birthrates and migration from Mexico falling, the nation is relying on a mixture of immigrants and refugees to keep...

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May 22, 2018 at 11:57 am

Attorney: Mexican man wrongly detained at marriage interview

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Lawyers for a 37-year-old Mexican man who was taken into custody during a mandatory marriage interview at immigration offices in Philadelphia said...

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May 8, 2018 at 10:33 am

Oregon jail changes immigration policy after suit settlement

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon jail is no longer honoring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers for people entering the jail on local charges....

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Members of a caravan of migrants from Central America who traveled through Mexico wait outside Tijuana’s border crossing with the U.S., in Mexico, April 30, 2018. The migrants were told Sunday afternoon that the immigration officials could not process their claims, and they would have to spend the night on the Mexican side of the border. (Meghan Dhaliwal/The New York Times) XNYT117 XNYT117

May 1, 2018 at 11:53 am

Q&A: The migrant caravan at the U.S. border

A Q & A about this year's large, visible caravan of asylum-seeking migrants currently at the border between the U.S. and Mexico.

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Migrants from Central America who traveled through Mexico camp at Tijuana’s pedestrian west border crossing with the U.S., in Mexico, April 29, 2018. The migrants were told Sunday afternoon that the immigration officials could not process their claims, and they would have to spend the night on the Mexican side of the border. (Meghan Dhaliwal/The New York Times) XNYT107 XNYT107

April 30, 2018 at 11:33 pm

Tensions simmer in Mexico as asylum seekers wait at border VIEW

U.S. border inspectors allowed some of the Central American asylum-seekers to enter the country for processing, ending a brief impasse over lack of space. Now,...

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Hundreds of migrants from Central America who traveled as a caravan en masse through Mexico gather with supporters at the border wall with the U.S., where it ends at the Pacific Ocean, in Tijuana, Mexico April 29, 2018. On Friday and Saturday, volunteer immigration lawyers and paralegals met with some of the migrants individually to review their asylum requests to enter the U.S. (Meghan Dhaliwal/The New York Times) XNYT24 XNYT24

April 29, 2018 at 10:19 pm

Migrants in caravan criticized by Trump start seeking asylum VIEW

After traveling through Mexico for a month under the Trump administration's watchful eye, nearly 200 Central American migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. were stopped...

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A bus carrying migrants in Tijuana, Mexico, April 25, 2018. The hope of sanctuary in the United States had sustained hundreds of migrants who traveled en masse across Mexico, and, for many, one person now stood in the way: President Donald Trump. (Meghan Dhaliwal/The New York Times) XNYT167 XNYT167

April 27, 2018 at 12:17 am

Migrant ‘caravan’ gathers on U.S.-Mexico border VIEW

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — About 170 migrants in a caravan of Central American asylum-seekers have arrived in Tijuana, joining about nearly 200 others on their...

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March 16, 2018 at 4:12 am

Fact check: Would President Trump’s border wall pay for itself?

"According to the Center for Immigration Studies, the $18 billion wall will pay for itself by curbing the importation of crime, drugs and illegal immigrants...

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Lauren Rees holds up a sign during a rally against a upcoming scheduled visit by President Donald Trump Tuesday, March 13, 2018, in San Diego. Protesters chanted, â€œNo ban! No wall!â€ near the San Ysidro border crossing, where tens of thousands of people enter the U.S. daily from Tijuana, Mexico, many on their way to work or school in San Diego. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong) CAKG101 CAKG101

March 13, 2018 at 11:10 am

Trump’s visit to California sparks protests, rallies VIEW

SAN DIEGO (AP) — President Donald Trump's motorcade Tuesday zipped past demonstrators who both jeered and cheered him and his plans for a "big beautiful...

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FILE – This Oct. 26, 2017 file photo shows prototypes of border walls in San Diego. President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to prevent construction of a border wall with Mexico in California that the state sued to stop, his latest attack on the state over its positions on immigration enforcement. (AP Photo/Elliott Spagat, File) WX111 WX111

March 12, 2018 at 4:36 am

Walls work, Trump officials say, but they’re not sure to what extent that’s true

More than a year after the government's top oversight body urged the Department of Homeland Security to develop a way to measure the effectiveness of...

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