Immigration

Migrants wait along a border wall on Aug. 23, 2022, after crossing from Mexico near Yuma, Ariz. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) YE210 YE210

December 7, 2022 at 2:33 pm

US appeals ruling that would lift asylum restrictions

The U.S. government says it will appeal a court ruling that would lift asylum restrictions that have become the cornerstone of border enforcement.

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Alem Birhan Taye, works on tidying the Lumen Field Event Center during his shift on Nov. 16, 2022.

December 3, 2022 at 6:00 am

How a 71-year-old immigrant in Seattle got his citizenship — and a job at Lumen Field VIEW

Alem Birhan Taye learned English and job skills — keys to supporting his family — through an agency helped by reader donations to The Seattle...

FILE – Detainees talk on telephones at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in Adelanto, Calif., Aug. 28, 2019. A federal appeals court on Tuesday, April 26, 2022, agreed to reconsider a ruling that rejected the stateâ€™s first-in-the-nation ban on for-profit private prisons and immigration detention facilities. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

November 30, 2022 at 1:23 pm

Unprecedented ICE data dump has put asylum-seekers at further risk

ICE deleted the data Monday after Human Rights First notified the agency that it was posted. Lives have been put at further risk, says an...

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Light illuminates part of the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. The Biden administration plans to ask the Supreme Court to reinstate the president’s student debt cancellation plan, according to a Thursday legal filing warning that Americans will face financial strain if the plan remains stalled in court when loan payments are scheduled to restart in January. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) DCPS203 DCPS203

November 28, 2022 at 12:07 pm

Supreme Court to hear arguments on immigration; huge impact on federal policy possible

On Tuesday, the court will hear arguments in a case that could bolster or curtail the power of states to challenge federal immigration policies.

FILE – Silvia Moreno del Castillo, center, of Lima, Peru, holds her daughter Brisa, 3, by the hand, followed by her husband Gerardo Puente, as the family who is seeking asylum from Peru is greeted by Derick Alegria, left, and Orlando Andara, both with the nonprofit SAMU First Response, as a bus of asylum seekers who were sent from Arizona to Washington arrives, Aug. 11, 2022, to a church on Capitol Hill in Washington. A coalition of conservative-leaning states are making a last-ditch effort to keep in place a Trump-era public health rule that allows many asylum seekers to be turned away at the southern U.S. border. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File) DCJM301 DCJM301

November 22, 2022 at 7:07 am

States move to keep court from lifting Trump asylum policy

A coalition of conservative-leaning states is trying to keep in place a Trump-era public health rule that allows many asylum seekers to be turned away...

November 15, 2022 at 3:48 pm

Judge orders end to Trump-era asylum restrictions at border

A federal judge has ordered the Biden administration to lift Trump-era asylum restrictions that have been a cornerstone of border enforcement since the beginning of...

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.