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FILE – In this July 8, 2019, file photo, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers detain a man during an operation in Escondido, Calif. During the Trump administration’s final weeks, the Department of Homeland Security quietly signed agreements with at least four states that threaten to temporarily derail President Joe Biden’s efforts to undo his predecessor’s immigration policies. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File) NYAG401 NYAG401

January 25, 2021 at 2:22 pm

Trump agreements seek to tie Biden’s hands on immigration VIEW

During the Trump administration’s final weeks, the Department of Homeland Security quietly signed agreements with at least four states that threaten to temporarily derail President...

January 22, 2021 at 11:41 am

Texas sues Biden administration over halt to deportations

The federal lawsuit seeks a halt to the deportation moratorium “for certain noncitizens" that was to begin Friday, the product of an early executive order...

Graciela Uraga, a cleaning lady, watches President Joe Biden’s inauguration with other immigrants at the Workers Justice Center, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) NYKW103 NYKW103

January 20, 2021 at 3:02 pm

Immigrants cheered by possible citizenship path under Biden VIEW

Immigrants cheered President Joe Biden's plan to provide a path to U.S. citizenship for about 11 million people without legal status, mixing hope with guarded...

President-elect Joe Biden speaks at the Major Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III National Guard/Reserve Center, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in New Castle, Del. Itâ€™s a Twitter userâ€™s worst nightmare: Wake up to find most of your followers gone. But thatâ€™s exactly what will happen on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, to the official presidential accounts on Twitter. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) NYSB203 NYSB203

January 18, 2021 at 9:15 pm

Biden immigration plan opposed by GOP, conservative groups

Republican lawmakers and conservative groups opposed President-elect Joe Biden's forthcoming immigration plan as massive amnesty for people in the U.S. illegally, underscoring that the measure...

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FILE – In this June 23, 2020, file photo, President Donald Trump tours a section of the border wall in San Luis, Ariz. President Donald Trump is expected to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021 to highlight his administration’s work on the border wall, the White House said Saturday, (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File) NY118 NY118

January 11, 2021 at 9:38 pm

Trump takes no responsibility for riot, visits Texas VIEW

President Donald Trump's visit to Alamo, Texas -- no doubt intended to symbolize defiance -- comes after days of silence following the siege of the...

In this Nov. 4, 2019, photo, a woman is led into a building by officers from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, after illegally crossing the border from the United States at Roxham Road in Champlain, N.Y. Since early 2017, when people who despaired of finding a permanent safe haven in the United States began turning to Canada for help, around 50,000 people have illegally entered Canada, many through Roxham Road in upstate New York. A case being heard in a Toronto court this week could end the use of Roxham Road. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring)

December 29, 2020 at 4:44 am

Canada is turning asylum seekers away at the border. In the U.S., they face deportation.

When the U.S. and Canada in March closed their border to asylum seekers at unauthorized entry points, Canadian officials said they had received assurances that...

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Kevin Euceda, an asylum seeker from Honduras, in detention at Farmville, Va. As the novel coronavirus sickened detainees in the facility, Kevin wrestled with the question of whether he was better off pursuing his asylum claim or asking to be deported. (Michael S. Williamson / Washington Post).

December 28, 2020 at 7:00 pm

To stay or to go?

Amid coronavirus outbreaks, migrants face the starkest of choices: Risking their lives in U.S. detention or returning home to the dangers they fled.

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The Northwest Detention Center is shown, Wednesday, April 15, 2020, in Tacoma, Wash. on the day of a during a car-based protest showing support for detainees inside who were taking part in a hunger strike to protest conditions they say are inadequate to protect detainees from the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) OTK

December 11, 2020 at 1:20 pm

New COVID case reported at Northwest detention center; activists seek release of vulnerable detainees

Another detainee has tested positive for the coronavirus at the Northwest detention center, bringing the cases there to 22. Meanwhile, an immigrant rights organization says...

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Wearing “butterfly wings,” supporters of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program hold a tarp with an image of President Donald Trump as they march in support of DACA, Monday, March 5, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) DCJM103

December 4, 2020 at 3:42 pm

Federal judge restores DACA, orders DHS to accept first-time applications from immigrants

Thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children are immediately eligible to apply for an Obama-era program that grants them work permits, a...

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Authorities pass a border wall construction site, in Mission, Texas, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020. President-elect Joe Biden will face immediate pressure to fulfill his pledge to stop border wall construction. But he will confront a series of tough choices left behind by President Donald Trump, who’s ramped up construction in his final weeks. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) PNA710 PNA710

December 3, 2020 at 6:56 am

Biden is facing high hopes, tough choices on border wall VIEW

Biden will inherit a massive wall-building effort that accelerated in President Donald Trump's final year. The administration says it has completed 400 miles and locked...

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