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CHICAGO (AP) -- The massive Border Patrol presence on a recent Saturday morning in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood didn't faze Ofelia Herrera even though she and her husband are in the United States illegally.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he plans to offer a "gold card" visa with a path to citizenship for $5 million, replacing a 35-year-old visa for investors.
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The Trump administration fired 20 immigration judges without explanation, a union official said Saturday amid sweeping moves to shrink the size of the federal government.
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Dozens of Marines unfurled coils of concertina wire -- one on the ground and one slightly above -- making it more difficult to climb a border wall separating Tijuana from San Diego. They worked with speed and efficiency amid a weekend rush of cars nearby at the busiest border crossing between the U.S. and Mexico.
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) -- A nurse who fled Cuba as part of the Caribbean nation's largest exodus in more than six decades needed a place to stay in Mexico as she waited to legally enter the U.S. using a government app. A woman who had lived her whole life in the same Tijuana neighborhood was desperate for medical help after...
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico in December are little changed from a month earlier, a U.S. official said Monday, hovering near the lowest levels since July 2020 and indicating that an anticipated surge ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration as president hasn't happened.
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The sheriff of the nation's fifth-largest county on Tuesday defied a new policy to limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, setting up a showdown over a new obstacle to President-elect Donald Trump's mass deportation plans.
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The nation's fifth most populous county decided Tuesday to limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities beyond what California law dictates, allying itself with jurisdictions around the country that are raising new obstacles to President-elect Donald Trump's plans for mass deportations.
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico fell 7% in September to a more than four-year low, authorities said Tuesday. It was likely the last monthly gauge during a presidential campaign in which Republican nominee Donald Trump has made immigration a signature issue.
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Donald Trump has long pledged to deport millions of people, but he's bringing more specifics to his current bid for the White House: invoking wartime powers, relying on like-minded governors and using the military.
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico during August are expected to rise slightly from July, officials said, possibly ending a streak of five straight monthly declines but the numbers are hovering near four-year lows.
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico during August are expected to rise slightly from July, officials said, likely ending five straight months of declines.
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Arrests of migrants for illegally crossing the border to the United States from Mexico plummeted about 30% in July to a new low for Joe Biden's presidency, U.S. authorities said, raising prospects that a temporary ban on asylum may be lifted soon.
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- United States-Mexico border arrests have plummeted about 30% in July to a new low for Joe Biden's presidency, U.S. authorities said, raising prospects that a temporary ban on asylum may be lifted soon.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- Posters inside a complex of giant, white tents tell migrants in English, Spanish, Mandarin and Hindi they should tell an officer if they fear being deported and "your claim will be heard." On a side wall where migrants are seated in a processing area, a video conveys the same message on a loop.
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Donald Trump has reached the greatest political heights while linking immigration to violent crime, but he's hardly the first American politician to promote the unfounded narrative.
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The Border Patrol arrested Gerardo Henao 14 hours after President Joe Biden suspended asylum processing at the U.S. border with Mexico this week. But instead of being summarily deported, he was dropped off by agents the next day at a San Diego bus stop, where he caught a train to the airport for a flight to...