Immigration

Republicans in swing state Arizona are broadcasting a tough border security stance with legislation aimed at punishing migrants who enter the U.S. illegally. The proponent of one bill has suggested it would allow property owners to shoot and kill migrants criminally trespassing on their property.

A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that allows police to arrest migrants suspected of entering the U.S. illegally.

First responders in Eagle Pass, Texas, say they are traumatized by what they see at the U.S.-Mexico border: parents drowned or dying, their children barely holding onto life after attempting to cross the Rio Grande.

The White House is considering using provisions of federal immigration law repeatedly tapped by former President Donald Trump to unilaterally enact a sweeping crackdown at the southern border, according to three people familiar with the deliberations.

A recent decline in arrests for illegal crossings on the U.S. border with Mexico may prove only temporary.

The Biden administration is considering taking executive action to deter illegal migration across the southern border, two U.S. officials told NBC News.

Beginning April 1, the cost for some common immigration applications will rise with new adjustments.

This is the first group since January 2022 and was comprised of men, women and children mostly from inland and southern Honduras, where many farm workers lost their jobs due to the closure of some plantations.

Texas is refusing to comply with a cease-and-desist letter from the Biden administration over actions by the state that have impeded U.S. Border Patrol agents from accessing part of the border with Mexico.

About 261,000 cases of migrants placed in removal proceedings are pending in the Miami court — the largest docket in the country.

Two men have been arrested for allegedly staging armed robberies at convenience stores and fast food restaurants so the “victims” could apply for a special visa for victims of criminal activity, federal prosecutors in Boston announced Friday. The pair of men, from New York City, are accused of staging armed robberies at at least four places in Massachusetts and at…

An estimated 8,000 people left southern Mexico in a caravan Christmas Eve with the hopes of reaching the U.S. border.

A new program that allows groups of U.S. citizens to name the specific refugees they would like to sponsor to come to America is giving a family in Texas hope of a reunification.

The number of immigrants to the U.S. jumped to the highest level in two decades this year, driving the nation’s overall population growth, according to estimates released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Children had been dispersed to shelters across the country that didn’t know who their parents were or how to find them.

Border security is a key component of a broader legislative deal that lawmakers are rushing to complete before the end of the year.

A paralegal in Sheepshead Bay is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from immigrants she falsely promised to provide legal services to at a lower rate — when she did no legal work for them or file petitions on their behalf, and at times falsely said she was an attorney, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said. Brooklyn District Attorney Eric…

Biden’s administration said it plans to have “multiple” deportation flights a week to Venezuela, according to a U.S. Transportation Department waiver on travel restrictions.

The Biden administration and more than 4,000 migrants who were separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border by the Trump administration reached a legal settlement Monday that allows the families to live and work in the U.S. for three years while receiving housing, mental health and legal assistance to apply for asylum.

U.S. officials can continue to refuse asylum-seekers at border crossings with Mexico if they don’t have appointments on a mobile phone app.