US won’t expel migrant children detained in Texas hotel
The administration's reversal comes days after The Associated Press first reported on the U.S. government's secretive practice of detaining unaccompanied children in hotels before rapidly...
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Canadian court invalidates asylum agreement with the US
The legal challenge cited the widespread detention of asylum seekers who are turned back from Canada and the separation of parents and children as other...
AP Exclusive: Migrant kids held in US hotels, then expelled
Documents obtained by The Associated Press show a private contractor hired by Immigration and Customs Enforcement takes children as young as 1 to hotels, sometimes...
Business groups sue U.S. over H-1B, other worker visa rules
A lawsuit, filed in federal court against the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department, argues that President Trump exceeded his authority when he...
Trump’s new immigration fight: how to redraw House districts
The financial and political stakes in the 2020 Census are huge, with Democratic-leaning metropolitan areas with large immigrant populations worried about losing dollars and political...
Woman without a country: Adopted at birth and deportable at 30
An estimated 35,000 people in the country lack U.S. citizenship because their adoptive parents failed to secure it for them. Rebecca Trimble, who met her...
Appeals court: Trump wrongly diverted $2.5B for border wall
The 9th Circuit ruled that the Trump administration not only lacked the authority to authorize the transfer of funds, “but also violated an express constitutional...
In COVID-19 hotspot, Trump addresses young Republicans, turns attention to border wall VIEW
PHOENIX (AP) — It wasn’t quite one of his signature big-stadium rallies. But President Donald Trump drew something closer to the jam-packed audience of political...
Trump orders limits on foreign workers, extends immigration restrictions
The restrictions will apply to work visas that many companies use, especially in the technology sector, landscaping services and the forestry industry.
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