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Immigrant field workers have been told to keep working despite stay-at-home directives, and given letters attesting to their “critical” role in feeding the country.

The court upheld an injunction blocking a policy that requires asylum applicants to wait in Mexico until their cases are decided. But a stay on the order means the policy could remain in effect.

A U.S. federal appeals court on Wednesday put on hold a lower court ruling that blocked President Donald Trump's administration from using $3.6 billion in military construction funds to build a wall on the country's border with Mexico

The number of people apprehended or deemed “inadmissible” by U.S. border authorities along the southern border fell to 40,620 last month, down 72 percent from May, when the Trump administration declared it was at the height of a border crisis

El gobierno del presidente Donald Trump jamás consultó a las autoridades mexicanas antes de determinar que enviaría a los solicitantes de asilo mexicanos a Guatemala, razón por la cual ya se ha presentado una inconformidad, según informó este martes la embajadora de México en Estados Unidos, Martha Bárcena

The information would go into a massive criminal database run by the FBI, where it would be held indefinitely. A memo outlining the program published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security said U.S. citizens and permanent residents holding a “green card” who are detained could be subject to DNA testing, as well as asylum seekers and people entering the country without authorization

La iniciativa, presentada el viernes en la Cámara de Representantes de Estados Unidos, contempla la designación de hasta cinco agregados para observar el cumplimiento de una reciente reforma laboral local, como parte de la implementación del tratado comercial, en el que también participa Canadá

The report published Thursday says poor medical care contributed to two preventable surgeries and contributed to four deaths in detention. It renewed harsh criticism from migrant advocates and Democrats of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, during which there have been reports of squalid conditions in packed cells and crying children left to fend for themselves after being taken from their parents

The administration says the tent courts are designed to help the immigration system move more quickly through cases, providing asylum faster for qualified applicants and turning away the rest—many of whom, the administration says, have submitted fraudulent claims

When President Donald Trump threatened to impose crippling tariffs on all Mexican goods if the government did not stem the flow of mostly Central American migrants crossing its territory. Mexico responded in June by deploying thousands of members of its newly created National Guard along the country’s principal migration routes to make it more difficult for migrants to arrive at the U.S. border

El Subsecretario de Relaciones Exteriores, Jesús Seade, admitió que Estados Unidos sí pretende tener un agregado que monitoreará la reforma laboral mexicana. "Ese agregado laboral servirá para monitorear qué está pasando en México por la reforma laboral. Ojalá que no se meta en conflictos específicos", dijo Seade al comparecer ante senadores

The importance of Hispanic women in the workforce is expected to increase. By 2028, they are forecast to account for 9.2% of the total labor force, up from 7.5% in 2018, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Latinos -- both women and men -- will account for a fifth of the worker pool by then

La reunión trilateral asistirán el representante comercial de Estados Unidos, Robert Lighthizer; el yerno del presidente Donald Trump y asesor principal, Jared Kushner; la vice primera ministra canadiense, Chrystia Freeland, y funcionarios mexicanos

Immigration arrests along the U.S. southern border fell for the sixth consecutive month in November, according to statistics released Monday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection that show a significant easing of the migration pressures the Trump administration faced last spring

A crackdown on illegal immigration has sharply curbed the number of Central Americans and others trying to enter the United States. But Mexicans, who have not been bound by some of the same restrictions, have been showing up at the border in greater numbers, in many cases fleeing the escalating violence in their country

The U.S. government said Friday it had sent nine Venezuelans — including two families — back to Mexico after they tried to make an asylum claim by driving up to a customs officer instead of lingering south of the border on a list waiting to be called up under a Trump administration policy targeting asylum-seekers

El movimiento obrero en el país se reagrupa para transitar hacia los nuevos cambios que demanda la reforma laboral; pero también para defenderse de las presiones que ejercen las organizaciones sindicales norteamericanas en el marco del tratado comercial con Estados Unidos y Canadá

Attorney General William Barr will meet with Mexico’s president and law enforcement officials about one week after President Donald Trump suggested that the United States would seek to classify Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations

Las remesas familiares que ingresaron al país ascendieron a 3 mil 125 millones de dólares durante octubre, informó este lunes el Banco de México (Banxico). De esta forma, las remesas reportaron un incremento de 3.6 por ciento en comparación del mismo mes del año anterior

The topic of immigration has the potential to rally or dampen efforts to turn out the growing Latino electorate, a group that showed its potential in the 2018 midterms and is critical to winning up and down the ballot in several key states

When the school year begins, the refugee and immigrant children often don’t know the rules. A kid might be fascinated with a light switch they excitedly turn off and on. Another is startled by a whistle or a helicopter buzzing overhead that recalls conflict back home

The U.S. government separated thousands of families despite knowing it lacked the technology to document and track their whereabouts, according to a report released Wednesday by an internal government watchdog

El domingo, fue enviada una solicitud a la Casa Blanca en la que se pide al gobierno de Estados Unidos señalar a los cárteles mexicanos como “organizaciones terroristas extranjeras”, luego de los hechos violentos en los que murieron 3 mujeres y 6 niños de las familias LeBarón y Langford. El secretario de Relaciones Exteriores insistió en que no se le puede llamar “narcoterrorismo”, toda vez que tendría una implicación jurídica con un impacto internacional

The U.S. long resettled more refugees than any other country, raising its ceiling to 110,000 during President Barack Obama’s last year in office. That practice has been sharply curtailed since Trump took office, with the country planning to resettle no more than 18,000 refugees in 2020

The program initially will be applied at a U.S. Border Patrol station in El Paso, Texas. The first phase will target adults from Honduras and El Salvador and the aim will be to process them within 72 hours, according to the three officials and notes from a training session of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) asylum officers taken by one of the officials

The doctors sent a letter to the chiefs of U.S. Homeland Security and Health and Human Services earlier this month noting that the flu mortality rate among migrant children in Border Patrol custody was nine times that of the general population last year and giving them until Tuesday to respond to their offer. By late Tuesday, there was no indication Border Patrol would accept

The United States has the world’s highest rate of children in detention, including more than 100,000 in immigration-related custody that violates international law, the author of a United Nations study said on Monday

According to the latest snapshot of ICE’s prisoner population, from early November, nearly 70 percent of the inmates had no prior criminal conviction. More than 14,000 are people the U.S. government has determined have a reasonable fear of persecution or torture if deported

In years past, migrants moved quickly through this violent territory on their way to the United States. Now, due to Trump administration policies, they remain there for weeks and sometimes months as they await their U.S. court dates, often in the hands of the gangsters who hold the area in a vise-like grip

A spokesman for the union that represents some 13,000 Citizenship and Immigration Services employees said Stephens is believed to be the first asylum officer to formally refuse to conduct interviews under the program officially known as Migrant Protection Protocols. But across the country — according to asylum officers, including Stephens, as well as government officials — asylum officers are calling in sick, requesting transfers, retiring earlier than planned and quitting — all to resist Trump administration immigration policies

Mexico has outpaced the Central American countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to become the largest single source of migrants taken into custody along the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Thursday

Most new asylum seekers would no longer be permitted to work while they wait for their claims to be processed, under a proposal by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency that handles asylum claim

To allow the Trump administration to end the protections would shatter the lives of young people who are Americans in virtually all ways, Napolitano said in remarks after the high court heard oral arguments on whether the Trump administration had followed proper procedures to shut down the program

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump, who made immigration his signature issue, pledged to end the program dubbed "Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals," arguing that the executive action that brought the program to fruition was an overreach of authority. A few months into his presidency, and with a lawsuit looming, Trump followed through on that campaign promise, calling for the wind down of protections

Tras las primeras indagatorias sobre la emboscada de un grupo armado a un convoy de la familia LeBarón, el secretario de Seguridad y Protección Ciudadana (SSPC), Alfonso Durazo, informó que han sido reconocidos casquillos de procedencia estadunidense

El mandatario señaló que si encuentran alguna vía en materia de cooperación que pueda ser aplicada en este caso, apelará por ello, esto tras el ataque a la familia LeBarón, donde murieron 9 personas

The United States is unsafe for would-be refugees and a Canada-U.S. agreement that compels asylum seekers to first apply for U.S. sanctuary ought to be ripped up, lawyers for refugees and rights groups argued in a Canadian federal court on Monday

U.S. District Judge Michael Simon in Portland, Ore., issued a temporary restraining order Saturday, the day before the policy was set to go into effect. But immigration attorneys and health officials said the move does not alleviate uncertainty among existing and would-be immigrants

El vicepresidente estadounidense Mike Pence destacó este sábado la necesidad de que el Congreso ratifique el Tratado México, Estados Unidos y Canadá (T-MEC), al que calificó como el mayor acuerdo comercial en la historia de este país

Translators and aid workers have been at evacuation centers, interviewing families and scouting out items they need, such as baby formula, diapers or medication. Groups are raising funds and distributing cash for those out of work

U.S. President Donald Trump's re-election campaign has run more than 3,000 Facebook ads in English asking for support to curb illegal immigration in the past six months, often asking people to sign online petitions to "deport illegals." But Republican Trump's more than 1,200 Facebook ads in Spanish during the same period hardly mention his signature campaign promise to be tough on immigration

Border Patrol agents arrested more than 851,000 people crossing the U.S.’s southwest border during the fiscal year ended in September, a 12-year high and more than double the previous year’s total, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said on Tuesday

The adult children of poor Mexican and Dominican immigrants in the country legally today achieve about the same relative economic success as children of poor immigrants from Finland or Scotland did a century ago. All of them, in their respective eras, have fared better than the children of poor native-born Americans

Durante los trabajos de la Reunión Interparlamentaria México-Estados Unidos, que tienen lugar este fin de semana, Delgado informó que el congresista demócrata Henry Cuellar se dijo optimista porque legisladores demócratas ven posible la ratificación del nuevo tratado comercial antes de concluir el año

Al grito de "esta es nuestra casa", dos centenares de jóvenes "dreamers" y activistas promigración iniciaron este sábado una marcha de 370 kilómetros y 18 días desde Nueva York hasta Washington, donde el 12 de noviembre comienza un juicio decisivo sobre el programa DACA, que evita sus deportaciones

Naturalized citizens — who share the full legal rights of natural-born citizens, except for the ability to become president — cast more than 8% of the ballots in the 2018 midterm elections, almost double their share in the 1996 presidential contest, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates

La Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) manifestó este martes su preocupación por la propuesta que dio a conocer el Departamento de justicia de Estados Unidos que permitiría al Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (Department of Homeland Security) recolectar muestras de ADN de detenidos no estadounidenses

El comisionado del Instituto Nacional de Migración, Francisco Garduño, dijo que la repatriación de 311 migrantes de la India es una advertencia de que quien ingrese a México y no cumpla la normativa, será regresado a su país de origen

El presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador afirmó este sábado que el mandatario de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, manifestó su solidaridad con México por los enfrentamientos registrados el jueves en Culiacán, Sinaloa. El mandatario afirmó, en su cuenta de Twitter, haber recibido una llamada telefónica de su par estadounidense

El ombudsman, Luis Raúl González Pérez, pide al Gobierno federal salvaguardar a indocumentados; condena que EU niegue servicios básicos a refugiados

President Trump has agreed to release $143 million in foreign aid to Central America, money the president froze earlier this year to put pressure on the governments of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador during a migration surge at the U.S. southern border

La medida tomaría 129 millones de dólares para la construcción del muro sacándolos de los esfuerzos antinarcóticos en Afganistán _ la fuente de probablemente 90 por ciento de toda la heroína del mundo _ además de 90 millones de dólares liberados por la aprobación de un ley de financiamiento temporal, dijeron importantes demócratas en una carta dirigida a Mark Esper, el secretario de Defensa

Three federal courts on Friday blocked a sweeping regulation that would've made it easier for the Trump administration to reject green card and visa applications filed by low-income immigrants whom the government determines are or might become a burden on U.S. taxpayers

Immigration and Customs Enforcement moved more than 700 women, some of whom have critical medical conditions, out of a Texas detention center in September without giving their lawyers any way of finding them, according to immigrant rights attorneys

Throughout his campaign, Trump had labeled migrants from Mexico as rapists, criminals and drug traffickers. That rhetoric set the stage for Trump’s first months in office, as he took measures to crack down on both legal and illegal immigration, much of it flowing from Mexico and Central America

Border officials came across about 52,000 migrants at the border last month — down about 65% from the peak in May of about 144,000, Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan said. That number includes both people who have crossed between borders illegally and people who sought admission into the U.S. at an official port of entry but were deemed inadmissible

Estados Unidos anunció que lanzará a inicios de 2020 un plan para promover el desarrollo económico de Guatemala, Honduras y El Salvador, una vez que los tres países del llamado Triángulo Norte han suscrito acuerdos migratorios bilaterales

The proclamation says immigrants will be barred from entering the country unless they are to be covered by health insurance within 30 days of entering or have enough financial resources to pay for any medical costs. The measure will be effective Nov. 3

Sheltering migrant children has become a growing business for the Florida-based government contractor. More than 50 babies, toddlers and teens were closely watched on this day inside this clean, well-lit shelter surrounded by chain link fences

The effort is separate from and much broader than the rapid DNA testing done on families at the U.S.-Mexico border to help detect adults falsely posing as parents. Not much else is known yet about the increased testing, including its purpose and whether it would apply to children crossing alone or to asylum seekers

In June, the Mexican government further stepped up its enforcement efforts by deploying its newly formed National Guard to its southern border. Mexico soon heralded its efforts a success, as the rate of migrant apprehensions on the U.S. border dropped by 62 percent between May and August

This exodus comes in the wake of demands by grassroots activists — many under the banner of the #FamiliesBelongTogether coalition — shareholders, policymakers, and investors. Major banks supporting the private prisons behind mass incarceration and immigrant detention have now committed to not renew $2.4B in credit lines and term loans to industry giants GEO Group and CoreCivic

The Trump administration reversed its decision Thursday to stop considering requests from immigrants seeking to defer deportation for medical treatment and other hardships, following weeks of public outcry and a congressional inquiry into the decision

The growing backlog is due in part to the surge of Central American families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border this year, with more people crossing illegally in May than during any other month in a decade. The Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration has also contributed, experts say

Asylum cases can take years, but the tent courts that recently opened here and in Brownsville, Texas, were designed to reduce that to as little as 40 days, the average time it takes for migrants in detention, according to Acting Border Patrol Commissioner Mark Morgan, who toured the tent with other Homeland Security officials Tuesday

Overall, the number of uninsured in the U.S. rose by 1.9 million people in 2018, the agency report this past week. It was the first jump in nearly a decade. An estimated 27.5 million people, or 8.5% of the population, lacked coverage the entire year. Such increases are considered unusual in a strong economy

Mr. Neal’s decision follows a shake-up at the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the court system that adjudicates the country’s immigration cases, including asylum cases. It is part of the Justice Department, not the judicial branch

The deployment began in La Hachadura along the country's border with Guatemala, 78 miles west (126 kilometers) of the capital, and is part of an agreement between the Salvadoran government and acting U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan to slow the flow of migrants trying to reach the United States

The Trump administration announced Wednesday that new immigration courts in tents on the Texas border with Mexico will be closed to legal observers, the press and the public. Immigration lawyers condemned the restrictions as a violation of the due process rights of asylum seekers

A day after touting a decline in unauthorized immigration, the White House sought to redouble pressure on Mexico to interdict migrants, illustrating the sensitive balance for the administration as President Trump seeks to demonstrate progress on a key campaign promise

A federal judge said the government cannot require asylum seekers to ask for shelter in another country before coming to the U.S. The Supreme Court is expected to weigh in soon

Iris is one in the soaring number of migrants seeking refuge throughout the Americas. And while the United States remains the world’s top recipient of asylum petitions, countries such as Mexico, with much smaller asylum systems, are seeing far greater increases

Al actualizar los resultados de la estrategia aplicada, a raíz del acuerdo para evitar gravámenes a todos los productos mexicanos, Ebrard dijo que la región que tiene el descenso más importante, de más de 70 %, es la de Tijuana y Mexicali, en el fronterizo estado de Baja California. En segundo lugar está Ciudad Juárez, en Chihuahua, y por último Tamaulipas

To avoid the tariffs, and threats of even more draconian tactics, the government of Mexico dispatched more than 20,000 police officers and Guard personnel to cover its southern border and the highways running north through the nation

Desde que las primeras caravanas de centroamericanos empezaron a recorrer México el año pasado, las presiones de la administración de Donald Trump crecieron sobre el Gobierno de Andrés Manuel López Obrador para que frenara el flujo de migrantes

U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw ruled that government agents unlawfully prevented those parents from pursuing asylum cases. In some cases, Sabraw found, agents coerced parents to drop their claims and accept deportation by having them sign documents they didn’t understand or telling them that asylum laws had changed

Según el informe anual "Procesos migratorios en México; nuevos rostros, mismas dinámicas", en 2018 fueron atendidos 36 mil 190 migrantes en 23 comedores, estancias y albergues que la red tiene en 13 entidades

En su Primer Informe de Gobierno resaltó que mediante el diálogo se busca involucrar a los gobiernos estadunidense, del llamado Triángulo del Norte en la construcción de mecanismos de reactivación económica a fin de desactivar el fenómeno migratorio, “el propósito es lograr que todas las personas puedan trabajar y estudiar en sus lugares de origen”

The U.S. government on Friday took another major step to end a settlement agreement governing the length of time and conditions in which it can detain immigrant children

A USCIS statement explaining the change says fake accounts and identities will make it easier for investigators to search for potential evidence of fraud or security concerns as they decide whether to allow someone entry into the U.S.

López Obrador’s remarks Thursday were his most direct about the origins of the migrant caravans that transited Mexico last year and early this year and more closely parallel the position of U.S. immigration authorities. He had previously suggested the caravans had been infiltrated

A Trump administration program forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico has evolved into a sweeping rejection of all forms of migrants, with both countries quietly working to keep people out of the U.S. despite threats to the migrants' safety

The influenza virus is primarily spread through droplets that are made when people with flu cough, sneeze or even talk. These droplets can infect someone nearby by landing in their mouths or noses or after being inhaled into the lungs

El Secretario del Tesoro opinó que esa incertidumbre se disipará pronto, especialmente si se ratifica el T-MEC y si se firma en septiembre el acuerdo comercial entre EU y Japón que hoy anunció Trump en el G7

El presidente de la Junta de Coordinación Política, Ricardo Monreal, informó al secretario de Relaciones Exteriores, Marcelo Ebrard, que la Junta asumió el acuerdo de no aceptar, por ningún motivo, que México se convierta en tercer país seguro, como pide Estados Unidos

Regional leaders on Friday called for "shock" investment in infrastructure in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador to reduce the number of migrants flowing from the three economically fragile countries, bound for the United States

The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Health and Human Services will issue a rule Friday to withdraw from the Flores Settlement Agreement, the federal consent decree that has set basic standards for the detention of migrant children and teenagers by the United States since 1997

Advocates have long said that detainees, especially those in rural facilities, experience delays and denials of healthcare. Many previous lawsuits have been filed on behalf of specific people detained by ICE. But Monday’s suit argues that the agency is systematically denying care to those in its custody

La dependencia a cargo de Ebrard detalló que los titulares de los Consulados de Houston, Nuevo Orleans y Little Rock, así como personal del departamento de protección y la red de abogados PALE, se encuentran entrevistando a los mexicanos a fin de brindarles apoyo jurídico y consular de forma permanente.

La Administración de Trump negó al menos 5 mil 343 visas para migrar a mexicanos entre octubre de 2018 y el 29 de julio de este año tras considerar que, por su pobreza, podrían volverse dependientes del Gobierno

That slowdown is in no small part because of the Obama administration, which, in its first term, allowed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to expand a Bush-era program known as Secure Communities

Stauffer said in the email that the number of beds at the Homestead center would be reduced from 2,700 beds to 1,200 beds in case they are needed. She added that no children have been placed there since July 3, but that may change in a few months

El 12 de junio, Donald Trump anunció redadas para detener a más de 2 mil personas sin documentos en Estados Unidos. A pesar de la estridencia del mandatario, el operativo dejó 35 detenciones en todo el territorio estadounidense, sólo 1.75 por ciento de los casos anunciados, pero alertó a defensores de los derechos de migrantes, por las graves consecuencias que acarrean los ataques del discurso del republicano contra esta población

Labor ministry official Horacio Duarte Olivares said the facility will provide shelter, meals, medical attention and access to the local labor market for migrants. Duarte said that similar shelters would open in the coming days in Tijuana and Mexicali and that there are plans for one in Nuevo Laredo

If the accord is implemented, it would likely deter migrant families from Honduras and El Salvador, said the manager of a migrant shelter in Guatemala City. Instead, it would revive old patterns in which migrants are predominantly single adults, mainly men, as the journey becomes more perilous and costly.
“Single adults and those with more resources may take a chance and get to the U.S. undetected,” the migrant shelter manager said

He said Mexico would not provide shelters for all the migrants sent back to Mexico by the United States while awaiting resolution of their U.S. asylum requests. That has become an issue in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, where hundreds of migrants have been bused from the dangerous border town to the city of Monterrey, and simply left at a bus station

Los nueve demócratas designados para negociar las demandas del partido en el Tratado entre México, Estados Unidos y Canadá (T-MEC) le enviaron un reporte a Nancy Pelosi en donde delinearon sus avances en las negociaciones con la Oficina del Representante Comercial de EU (USTR) y aseguraron que, tras haber marcado sus demandas, ahora depende de la voluntad de la administración la negociación de los puntos establecidos

Los gobiernos de México y de Honduras acordaron un programa de cooperación para echar a andar los programas Sembrando Vida y Jóvenes Construyendo el Futuro en el país centroamericano con el fin de generar empleos e inhibir la migración hacia Estados Unidos

The agreement may also face legal challenges in the U.S. Immigrant advocates say Guatemala cannot be considered safe and has no adequate means to process tens of thousands of asylum applications

They were about a mile from the southern border, where thousands of troops have deployed this year to try to stem the flow of migrants — but the authorities say the Marines in the BMW had the opposite aim. According to a federal criminal complaint, they planned to make some easy money by taking their passengers, migrants from Mexico, to the next stop on their smuggling route north

They were about a mile from the southern border, where thousands of troops have deployed this year to try to stem the flow of migrants — but the authorities say the Marines in the BMW had the opposite aim. According to a federal criminal complaint, they planned to make some easy money by taking their passengers, migrants from Mexico, to the next stop on their smuggling route north

Carrying the blue and white national flag, demonstrators rallied in front of the presidential palace in Guatemala City. They called on Morales to resign for having caved in to U.S. demands to make Guatemala a “safe third country” for migrants, including those headed north from El Salvador and Honduras

The highest ranking immigration official in the troubled El Paso region of the southwest border, where hundreds of children were reportedly held for weeks without enough food or the ability to bathe, has been temporarily removed from his job amid growing criticism over health and safety conditions for migrants there

La subsecretaria de la SRE, Martha Delgado, asegura ante diputados que gobiernos pasados ‘renunciaron’ a defender la frontera sur del país; ‘No podemos ser socios de la migra’, critica

De junio, mes en que se firmó el acuerdo migratorio con Estados Unidos, al 15 de julio, el Gobierno de México deportó a casi el 80 por ciento de extranjeros que entraron al país (79.31 por ciento), de acuerdo con datos del Instituto Nacional de Migración (INM)

El secretario Ebrard también solicitó al secretario Pompeo la reinstalación del Programa de Repatriación (PRIM) que brindaba apoyo a los ciudadanos mexicanos repatriados de Estados Unidos y que fue suspendido en 2018

En la Ley de la Guardia Nacional, se le otorgó la facultad para detener migrantes, lo cual incluso fue confirmado por el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador el 25 de junio pasado. Dijo que pueden realizar las detenciones, como auxilio a las autoridades del Instituto Nacional de Migración, pero sin violentar los derechos humanos

Crafted from memory, the scenes were fashioned from humble materials like bottle caps and Popsicle sticks as part of a social studies project in which a few creative teachers assigned to the camp asked the children to commemorate their native cultures

It’s been longstanding LAPD policy not to enforce federal immigration law, fearing those actions would make those here illegally too afraid to cooperate in crime fighting. Moore and others have stressed this in recent weeks. Marin said ICE isn’t seeking the LAPD’s help and doesn’t understand why the department keeps raising the issue

México le ha dicho a Estados Unidos, "una y otra vez", que no está listo para firmar un acuerdo que obligue a los solicitantes de asilo en el país del norte a dirigirse a su territorio para buscar un refugio seguro, dijo el jueves Martha Bárcena

A cuatro días de que se cumpla el plazo de 45 días para evaluar el compromiso de México de disminuir el flujo migratorio, la secretaria de Gobernación aseguró que se “está cumpliendo con el compromiso a cabalidad”, en especial en lo que se han difundido los beneficios para los migrantes de permanecer en México

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said fewer than 1,000 children have been separated from families out of 450,000 family groups that have crossed the border since October. He said they are separated because of health and safety concerns, among other reasons

De acuerdo con el Reporte Cierre de Junio 2019 de la Comisión Mexicana de Ayuda a Refugiados (Comar), el total de peticiones hechas en el primer semestre de este año asciende a 31 mil 355, de las cuales 16 mil 371 fueron de hondureños (grupo mayoritario)

Some administration officials have privately voiced frustration with the president for his decision to publicly announce ICE’s plans in advance, blowing the cover off the raids. Like most law enforcement agencies, ICE officials treat their actions as closely guarded secrets, and they rely on the element of surprise to make arrests

The bureaucratic disagreements highlight federal officials’ failure to coordinate management of what they have called an overwhelming number of families and children crossing the border in the past year. A record 390,308 people traveling as families illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border from the start of the federal fiscal year in October through June, as did 63,624 unaccompanied children—the most since 2016

Three former foreign ministers are asking Guatemala's Constitutional Court to bar President Jimmy Morales from entering into a "safe third country" agreement with the United States, days ahead of his visit to Washington announced Thursday

"Defendants provide no reasons, let alone ‘satisfactory reasons,’ for the substitution of counsel,” Furman wrote in his order. The judge added that the Justice Department has looming deadlines to respond to motions that plaintiffs have filed, including a request to prohibit the administration from modifying the census to add the question

The American Academy of Pediatricians is trying to convince Customs and Border Protection to allow physicians into migrant detention facilities in the U.S. The AAP has long been against the Trump administration policies detaining migrant children and their families

In fact, more than 1,500 U.S. citizens spent time in immigration detention between 2007 and 2015 before the government acknowledged the mistake, federal records indicate. Northwestern University political scientist Jacqueline Stevens estimated that approximately 1% of all immigration detainees from more than 8,000 cases between 2006 and 2008 that she studied were U.S. citizens

Martí Batres, presidente de la Mesa Directiva del Senado, refirió que la Comisión Permanente designó a 16 legisladores para acompañar a Marcelo Ebrard, en el proceso de negociación

The records also underscore the conflicts between the laws of some states and the federal push to find and deport undocumented immigrants. Though Utah, Vermont and Washington allow undocumented immigrants to obtain full driver’s licenses or more-limited permits known as driving privilege cards, ICE agents have run facial-recognition searches on those DMV databases

Immigration lawyers and advocates said the dramatic contrast between the child-friendly Karnes and Dilley facilities and Border Patrol stations that a Department of Homeland Security inspector general report this week labeled “dangerous” showed the administration was prioritizing enforcement over the humane treatment of children

The Trump administration, even as it acknowledged that a citizenship question would depress census response rates, has argued that it’s needed to enforce voting rights laws. The Supreme Court called that reason “contrived.” Reports have emerged that the proposal was racially motivated and designed expressly to benefit non-Hispanic whites and Republicans

The ruling Tuesday in a class-action lawsuit brought by asylum applicants and their advocates is the latest in a string of court defeats for the President Donald Trump's effort to prevent migrants along the southern border from reaching American towns and cities. Apprehensions of prospective asylum seekers have more than doubled in the last year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Trump delayed the raids about a week ago. The move came after Pelosi urged Trump to call them off. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leaders had also expressed serious concerns that officers' safety would be in jeopardy because too many details about the raids had been made public

El presidente de Estados Unidos firmó un paquete de ayuda por 4,600 millones de dólares para apoyar al gobierno a enfrentar el incremento de migrantes en al frontera con México

In the United States, immigrants do not need to reveal their status to apply for a protection order, legal separation or custody of a child. But legal service providers say even when they make this clear, many of their clients remain skeptical

The debates, in which there was almost unanimous embraces by the top-polling candidates for decriminalizing illegal border crossings and for offering undocumented immigrants health insurance, excited many in the Democratic base

The court's next term begins in October, making it likely that the nine justices will hand down their ruling in the heat of the 2020 presidential campaign, when Trump will be running for re-election

De acuerdo con información compartida por la administración mexicana, la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de EU (CBP, en inglés), estimó que las largas filas conllevan esperas de semanas para los migrantes que buscan presentarse legalmente por los puertos de entrada

The Trump administration had said the question was being added to aid in enforcement of the Voting Rights Act, which protects minority voters’ access to the ballot box. But the Justice Department had never previously sought a citizenship question in the 54-year history of the landmark voting rights law

Regardless of how they are characterized, the facilities have been stretched thin. Many are operating well past their capacities and reports of grim and dangerous conditions have roiled an already tense debate. The Trump administration has tried a number of measures to respond to the migrant surge, from building tent cities in Texas to enacting family separation policies and rules meant to deter new asylum seekers

Abundó que su administración busca cumplir con el compromiso hecho con Estados Unidos, el cual consiste en un mejor control de quienes entrar a nuestro país y cruzan hacia EU, así como en la apuesta para dar opciones a migrantes en sus lugares de origen y en México

The expansion is expected to take place at three points along the border, and Nuevo Laredo Mayor Enrique Rivas confirmed that his city across from Laredo, Texas, is one of them. Located in the crime-plagued state of Tamaulipas, it could receive up to 150-200 asylum seekers daily beginning Friday

President Donald Trump said he will delay mass deportation raids scheduled for Sunday as he seeks compromise with Democratic leaders on immigration issues

The U.S. immigration system is facing massive backlogs in naturalization applications, asylum filings and the immigration courts. Advocates have decried lengthy waits for citizenship interviews and asylum hearings, and with the lawsuit, they are adding the ability to obtain immigration documents to the list

Garduño Yáñez estableció que, mediante un operativo a pie tierra de todos los elementos del instituto y de la Guardia Nacional, se impedirá el acceso no documentado de personas a territorio nacional, y también se evitará que sigan utilizando balsas o barcos para moverse desde los ríos Suchiate y Usumacinta

The 30-year Paisano program is traditionally aimed at visitors, and Mexican nationals who live abroad but visit their homeland in the summer. This year, authorities said it will also serve Central American migrants who request asylum in the United States, but are returned to Mexico

La cantidad de niños y adolescentes sin acompañantes adultos que han sido retenidos en la frontera norte de México en lo que va de 2019 es de 56 mil 278 menores, de acuerdo con datos sobre las detenciones de migrantes en los límites con Estados Unidos

The documents show that Christa Jones, now chief of staff to the deputy director of the U.S. Census Bureau, communicated directly from her private email address with Hofeller about the citizenship question, alerting him to a Federal Register notice for comment on the bureau’s 2015 content test, which she suggested “could be an opportunity to mention citizenship as well,” the letter said

The Border Network for Human Rights issued a report Friday based on dozens of testimonials of immigrants over the past month and a half, providing a snapshot of cramped conditions and prolonged stays in detention amid a record surge of migrant families coming into the U.S. from Central America

Mexico has 45 days to demonstrate that the northbound flows of migrants are declining, or the two sides go back to the negotiating table, with Mexico in a weakened position, Marcelo Ebrard, the country’s foreign secretary, said Tuesday

El canciller Marcelo Ebrard que parte de la solución de la migración hacia Estados Unidos, es el generar empleos para reducir la pobreza en centroamérica y el sur de México

The Mexican National Guard is an untested new military police force with immigration enforcement powers. Its creation in early 2019 was highly controversial in Mexico given the Mexican military's extraordinarily violent law enforcement record

When acting homeland security secretary Kevin McAleenan traveled to Guatemala in May, he invited coffee growers, including Hernández, to meet with him. The growers showed him a PowerPoint presentation, titled “Coffee and Migration,” with graphs illustrating how much farmers were losing

The deal lays out "a regional approach to burden-sharing in relation to the processing of refugee status claims to migrants," the document said. A Reuters photograph of the folded document, taken as Trump held it up, allowed reporters to read parts of it

La secretaria de Gobernación precisó que el nuevo cuerpo se desplegará por todo el país, lo que incluye preservar la seguridad en las fronteras

Mr. Ebrard said Mexico preferred a regional asylum agreement that would review the flow of migrants across Mexico and Central America, with a number of countries, including Panama and Brazil

El presidente expresó que México y Estados Unidos han sabido cooperar mutuamente y mantener una relación fraterna; subrayó que no permitirá que se atente contra la economía nacional

El secretario de Relaciones Exteriores, Marcelo Ebrard, insistió en que México salió con la "dignidad intacta" del acuerdo realizado con Estados Unidos en materia migratoria para evitar la aplicación de aranceles a México

La Casa Blanca se mantiene firme en su posición de que México debe tomar medidas importantes para detener el aumento de migrantes centroamericanos si quiere evitar que el lunes 10 de junio se impongan aranceles a sus exportaciones a Estados Unidos, informó el jueves la portavoz Sarah Sanders

The public split and looming standoff over 5% tariffs on all goods imported from Mexico revealed a fundamental divergence in values between the president and his party. Trump uses tariffs as leverage to get what he wants -- in this case to force Mexico to do more to halt illegal immigration. For Republicans, tariffs are counter to firmly rooted orthodoxy and viewed as nothing more than taxes they strenuously oppose

Civil rights and child welfare advocates said that any move by the government to eliminate education and recreation would constitute a violation of the Flores settlement, which in 1997 established the standards for treating migrant children held in government facilities, and would prompt them to sue for reinstatement of the activities

Lower Hispanic response rates related to citizenship also would drive up census costs by hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the Shorenstein study. Costs increase because when no one answers for a home or answers incompletely, the Census Bureau attempts a series of follow-up contacts, including sending census takers to attempt in-person interviews

Mexican police looked on as about half the migrants crossed the Suchiate River on inner-tube rafts. The mainly Honduran migrants then walked into the border city of Ciudad Hidalgo to rest in the main plaza

The Democrats’ immigration measure was notable both for what it did and for what it did not do. It was a grant of legal status for a narrow group of immigrants, not a comprehensive measure to overhaul what lawmakers in both parties concede is a badly broken immigration system and to deal with the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States

The results showed that crime declined in the large majority of those metro areas, as it has for more than 20 years throughout the United States generally, whether the number of undocumented migrants increased or decreased in a particular place

In the short run, these moves may serve the U.S. interest. But in the long run, they could do the opposite, by emboldening everyone to ignore international conventions and rules that reserved tariffs and sanctions for specific purposes. The U.S. may also find its “soft power,” the ability to get other countries to cooperate out of shared mutual interest rather than threat, diminished

The USMCA must be approved by lawmakers in all three countries. Yet Mexico is unlikely to ratify the pact if it must cope with a new batch of Trump-imposed tariffs just months after forging a free-trade agreement with the administration

El representante de Texas indicó a Trump que si desea ver menos detenciones en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México debería considerar la oferta del presidente Jimmy Morales

Asylum seekers are forced by a hostile system to languish in far-flung detention centers with no hope of parole, scant access to lawyers and ultimately little chance of winning their cases, a new lawsuit alleges

The president’s threat escalated his immigration fight with Mexico and is a significant move against an American ally that essentially dared the Mexican government to risk economic catastrophe on both sides of the border if it did not capitulate to the demands of the United States president

Martha Bárcena, aseguró que a pesar de que hay diferencias con el gobierno de Estados Unidos, como el arancel a los tomates y el tema migratorio, hay más puntos en común de lo que parece en la agenda bilateral

Many of the nearly 2,000 unaccompanied migrant children being held in overcrowded U.S. Border Patrol facilities have been there beyond legally allowed time limits, including some who are 12 or younger

Nearly 169,000 youths have surrendered at the southern border in the first seven months of this fiscal year, and more than half are ages 12 and under, according to federal records and officials familiar with Customs and Border Protection statistics

At issue is whether congressional approval is needed before families can sue on behalf of foreign victims who were injured on foreign soil. The court took the case from Texas, but its outcome will influence the Arizona case

Last week, U.S. immigration officials said they would begin three flights a week to San Diego from Texas' Rio Grande Valley. They said authorities in Texas are overwhelmed and need help processing people who are arrested

While President Trump has made a point of threatening to send migrants from the border to inland sanctuary cities that oppose his immigration policies, it is an empty threat: Migrants are already traveling by the thousands every day to cities across the country

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump from building key sections of his border wall with money secured under his declaration of a national emergency, delivering what may prove a temporary setback on one of his highest priorities

Hispanics, meanwhile, will outpace African Americans to become the electorate’s largest nationwide racial minority group for the first time on Election Day 2020 — accounting for more than 13% of eligible voters, according to Pew projections

Border Patrol officials have said they try to release migrants into the care of aid groups and shelters, but sometimes as a last resort are forced to drop them in places the agency considers transit hubs. Deming, an hour and a half from El Paso’s busy border crossing, is the only town in this rural border county with a Greyhound bus stop

Some advocates worry, Democrats are ceding ground in a general election campaign by not pursuing concrete alternatives, especially on asylum, that speak to centrist voters; they are also forgoing a chance to have policy debates now that will shape their ability to govern if they win the White House

Our research suggests that prejudice against Latinos is an important, if veiled, reason that some Americans advocate admitting primarily highly educated, highly skilled immigrants

Migrants apprehended in the area were processed at other locations while intake was suspended in McAllen, officials said. A Border Patrol official told reporters Wednesday afternoon that the 32 ill detainees had been transferred out of the McAllen center to nearby facilities for further tests

El Gobierno de México anunció que, para realizar el plan de desarrollo en la región, se necesitará una inversión de 10 mil mdd anuales que tendrán que recaudar entre los países involucrados

A 16-year-old Guatemalan boy who officials said was sick with influenza was found dead at a Border Patrol station in South Texas on Monday morning, after a week of waiting in holding facilities to be sent to a shelter for migrant children

Unveiling a new immigration plan, President Donald Trump said he wanted to provide a sharp contrast with Democrats , and he did — aiming to upend decades of family-based immigration policy with a new approach that favors younger, "totally brilliant," high-skilled workers he says won't compete for American jobs

Mexico’s statistics institute estimated this month that the U.S.-born population in this country has reached 799,000 — a roughly fourfold increase since 1990. And that is probably an undercount. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City estimates the real number at 1.5 million or more

El presidente de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, presentará mañana el Programa de Desarrollo Regional para Centroamérica y el Sureste de México, a fin de impulsar el progreso económico y social y, al mismo tiempo, frenar los flujos migratorios

La secretaria de Economía, Graciela Márquez, dijo que la eliminación en Estados Unidos de los aranceles a insumos de aluminio y acero provenientes de México y Canadá fue resultado de varios meses de negociación entre los tres países

For years, it's been an open secret that unauthorized immigrant workers are propping up the Social Security retirement trust fund and Medicare systems — even though they can't access benefits from either of those programs

Democrats made a "thoughtful offer" to Republicans on Thursday evening of "several billion" dollars for humanitarian needs at the border, the House Democratic aide said. He did not reveal the specific amount

A 10-year-old Guatemalan migrant girl died after being taken to hospital from a Mexico City immigration detention center, Mexican authorities said on Thursday, adding to a growing number of deaths of minors migrating from the Central American country

La Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza de Estados Unidos (CBP por sus iniciales en inglés) aseguró el jueves que la madre del niño le dijo a los agentes que su hijo se enfermó el 6 de abril, tres días después de que fueran detenidos, y que fue hospitalizado ese día

When families arrive at the border now, the government can only detain the children for a certain period. The result is often that families are released together once they’ve been processed and detained up to that limit, with the expectation that they’ll then return for their subsequent immigration hearings

El Gobierno de Estados Unidos planea reemplazar las barreras a lo largo de 161 kilómetros de la frontera sur en California y Arizona, incluyendo un tramo que cruza un parque nacional y un refugio de vida silvestre

Trump has been working with his top advisers on a proposal that would favor highly skilled workers seeking to immigrate to the United States and cut back on other types of visas

The idea was to arrest parents and children in 10 cities with large populations of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, specifically New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, they said, without naming others.

The proposal, first reported by The Washington Post, was meant to send a message and possibly deter others from coming across the border, they said

Las solicitudes de refugio y asilo han aumentado de forma exponencial en el país, siendo los solicitantes de Venezuela, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nigeria, Pakistán, India, Bangladesh y Afganistán

Experts believe, and U.S. data indicates, the Mexican government is failing to document the majority of unaccompanied kids who make their way through Mexico to the U.S. border, leaving them in the shadows in border cities like Tijuana where they could end up in very dark and dangerous places

Trump has been eager to have the U.S. military play a larger role on the border and, despite some criticism from lawmakers, Pentagon officials say they are looking to create a long-term plan for assistance

La Unidad de Política Migratoria de la Secretaría de Gobernación reportó que en enero fueron entregadas 11 mil 283 tarjetas y en febrero 7 mil 208, pero para marzo la cifra disminuyó a mil 476, lo que representa un 79.6 por ciento

Homeland Security officials requested the aircraft because Border Patrol urgently needs to move single adults out of the lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. The agency is scrambling to make room for the large volume of families and children who have come across the border in dramatically higher numbers in the past several days, officials said

Rising wages have drawn many workers from the sidelines, but not enough to fill jobs in fast-growing industries. One problem is that many middle-aged men who lost jobs during the recession left the workforce. They are nearing retirement age and unlikely to return to physical labor, yet there aren’t enough young people to replace them

The plan to institute a mandatory federal employment verification program, known as E-Verify, would be a key part of an immigration overhaul crafted by a team led by Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and adviser

The allegations raise questions on whether the agency has “failed to uphold its statutory duties to ensure the health and safety of children within their care,” the senators wrote in a letter to the assistant secretary for children and families. They said the allegations also raise serious questions about how some shelters have used federal funding

Migrants in many Mexican border cities have typically made easy targets for organized crime gangs that kidnap them to extort money from relatives or try to recruit them into drug and human-trafficking businesses

The remarks by the secretary, Patrick M. Shanahan, were a major step in President Trump’s effort to build his border wall without congressional authorization since he declared a national emergency and took other measures to redirect funds in February

Allowing the policy to remain in effect in the meantime lets the administration carry out an unprecedented change to U.S. asylum practices

A border security bill that would focus, in part, on modernizing ports of entry, and a package of revisions to legal immigration that aims to create a more “merit-based” system giving preference to those with job skills rather than relatives of immigrants already in the country

Asimismo, se pronunció porque se incentiven programas de desarrollo para ayudar a los países de Centroamérica para combatir los factores que los llevan a migrar, como son la pobreza y la inseguridad

Morgan is a former assistant director of the FBI, and he has been appearing on the Fox News Channel in recent weeks, to discuss both immigration policy and the report of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III on the investigation into Russian election interference

The Trump administration has revised training guidelines for asylum officers in ways that could make it harder for migrants seeking refuge in the United States to pass an initial screening

One potential obstacle to finishing a deal could be the Trump administration’s request for $4.5 billion in emergency funding to address the flood of asylum-seeking Central American families at the southern border. House Democrats rejected the proposal, which includes funding for detention beds, but indicated they were amenable to certain provisions

Autoridades el INAMI conminaron a los indocumentados a dejar el tren para evitar riesgos; cerca de 100 migrantes aceptan auxilio de elementos de migratorios

The decision comes as Homeland Security officials are increasingly concerned about instances of child trafficking as a growing number of Central American families cross the border, straining resources to the breaking point

This dynamic has prompted concern among some Democratic activists and voters who want their candidates to talk openly not just about the Trump border policies they disagree with but what they would do differently if they are elected

The $108 billion measure funding veterans benefits and improvements to military bases is perhaps the most popular funding bill to annually advance through Congress. Democrats unveiled the bill Tuesday and it is scheduled for a preliminary panel vote Wednesday

La publicación indicó que cuando el Congreso regresa del receso esta semana con una lista completa de prioridades, la presidenta de la Cámara de Representantes, Nancy Pelosi (demócrata de California) y otros demócratas destacados han señalado que no permitirán una votación sobre el nuevo acuerdo con Canadá y México sin ciertos cambios

There are tangible costs to the U.S. economy of allocating far fewer skilled-immigrant visas than companies need. Most immediately, the cost is forgone jobs. Over the long run, the cost is forgone ideas, innovation and connections to the world

Anuncia Vaticano ayuda de 500 mil dólares. Apoyan asistencia de congregaciones y diócesis en México a indocumentados

Mexican officials are now sorting through a backlog of petitions for transit or humanitarian visas in southern Mexico. Frustrated by long waits for visas and overcrowding at shelters, many migrants are opting to continue north without Mexico's blessing

The new troops will include military lawyers who can help Customs and Border Protection agents process migrants, drivers to help transport detained migrants and cooks to provide meals for them

The reluctance of Democratic candidates to address law and order challenges at the border has some of the party’s seasoned operatives and activists fearing a trap

Ante cuestionamientos del Comité Contra la Tortura de la ONU, el Gobierno mexicano negó tener acuerdos con Estados Unidos para que envíe a México a migrantes centroamericanos en lo que esperan su regularización

With dozens of police and immigration checkpoints dotting the highways, many migrants now view the train as a safer, albeit still risky, way to reach the U.S. border

The plan does not propose ways to address young people who came to the United States illegally as children who were protected by former President Barack Obama

The court’s decision, expected in late June, will be consequential. By one government estimate, about 6.5 million people might not be counted if the citizenship question is allowed

A las personas indocumentadas se les ofrecerá dicho documento, pero en caso de rechazarlo serán deportados; fueron aprehendidos en la comunidad de Echegaray, en Chiapas

The idea of restricting travel from high overstay countries is part of a long list of proposals being tossed around by officials as they try to appease a president who has been seething over the influx of migrants at the border

The guidance, issued — coincidentally or not — just before pot advocates’ national celebration of their 4/20 holiday, confirms what immigration and marijuana advocates have cautioned is a legal gray area that penalizes would-be citizens because they’ve broken a federal law

Mr. Hopkins’s arrest comes as tensions rise over ultraconservative paramilitary groups operating along the southwestern border. Professed militias have a long history of targeting immigrants from Latin America, tracing back to the Ku Klux Klan’s creation of its own border patrol in the 1970s

In an emergency draft report unveiled Tuesday, the Homeland Security Advisory Council called on the Trump administration to immediately establish three to four regional processing centers along the southwest border with Mexico

We already know that communities who currently welcome immigrants have lower rates of crime and higher rates of economic activity. But what we didn't know until now is the degree to which this immigration in investment will likely pay dividends for the U.S. well into the 22nd century

The hiring process can take nearly a year, slowed by lengthy background checks and polygraph examinations that prompt many applicants to look elsewhere

Alrededor de 2 mil migrantes, la mayoría provenientes de Honduras y El Salvador, ingresaron la madrugada del viernes a México a través del puente fronterizo Rodolfo Robles, conocido como Suchiate

The surge of asylum cases that starts at the border doesn’t stay at the border. Newly arrived families often get their cases transferred to where they planned to join family or friends. Sometimes that gives a family time to raise money to pay for a lawyer

The White House believed it could punish Democrats — including Pelosi — by busing ICE detainees into their districts before their release, according to two DHS whistleblowers who independently reported the busing plan to Congress

Trump is increasingly frustrated by a spike in illegal border crossings, and last month empowered a hard-line aide, Stephen Miller, to have greater authority over immigration policy within the White House

The Obama administration rejected a plan for family separations, according to Cecilia Muñoz, Obama’s top adviser for immigration. The Trump administration operated a pilot program for family separations in the El Paso area beginning in mid-2017

Administration officials said Tuesday that while a return to the previous family separation tactic, known as “zero tolerance,” is not in the works, the White House is considering a “binary choice” policy

The lawsuit says the Trump administration is violating U.S. law by failing to adequately evaluate the dangers that migrants face in Mexico

Replacing her on an acting basis will be Kevin McAleenan, who currently serves as the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Trump said Sunday

Central America is the main corridor used by organized crime to get illegal narcotics to American consumers. The U.S. has been promising to reduce domestic demand for drugs for decades but has made little progress

Trump has been increasingly exasperated at his inability to halt the swelling number of migrants entering the U.S., including thousands who have been released after arriving because border officials have no space for them

The employees arrested, who were predominantly women, hailed from 15 countries, including El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nigeria and Venezuela, according to ICE

First opened as a migrant child shelter and then shuttered under Barack Obama, the center has housed a total of around 8,300 children since Trump reopened it a year ago to help alleviate the stress on federal resources caused by a short-lived policy to remove children from their parents' custody at the southern border

With processing and holding centers overwhelmed, the administration is busing migrants hundreds of miles inland and releasing them at Greyhound stations and churches

But the freeze doesn’t punish those governments. That aid money primarily goes to nonprofit organizations working to combat violence, create jobs and stabilize communities so that fewer people feel compelled to leave. Shutting off the aid will worsen the problem the president complains about

U.S. immigration officials say they will close a holding area under a bridge connecting El Paso, Texas, with Juarez, Mexico, that is just a short distance from where a senior official declared an “operational crisis” at the border last week

Mientras en Chihuahua el alto número de migrantes retrasa el cruce por garitas, en Chiapas hay una lucha entre pandillas centroamericanas y el INM cerró oficinas tras agresión de cubanos

A narrowly divided Supreme Court said Tuesday that federal authorities have broad powers to detain indefinitely and without a bond hearing legal immigrants who have completed their punishment for certain crimes that make them eligible for deportation

The small number of interpreters who do have a basic grasp of indigenous languages are still often ill-equipped to help — they must explain legal terms that are difficult to comprehend in any language and there are significant differences between regional dialects

Overall migration to the U.S., predominantly led by Mexicans, is at a historic low, down from a peak of 1.6 million in the year 2000 to less than 400,000 last fall

Congress won’t override his veto. But some experts say the disapproval could factor into the real fight that matters: in the courts

El plan prevé atender todas las etapas del retorno de migrantes, desde la partida de Estados Unidos; la recepción en México y la llegada al lugar donde se asentarán

ICE spokesman Matthew Bourke said that agents use the license-plate database as a tool to help in its immigration-enforcement investigations and that it does not use the information to track people “who have no connection to ICE investigatory or enforcement activities.”

HHS is now asking for $1.3 billion in the 2020 fiscal year budget and the creation of a contingency fund of up to $2 billion

The most recent, published in May, found that about 17 percent of people working in the United States were born outside the country, a bit over 1 in 6. The unemployment rate among immigrants, in fact, is lower than that of native-born Americans

Trump's proposal, titled "A Budget for a Better America: Promises Kept. Taxpayers First" and set for release Monday, "embodies fiscal responsibility," said Russ Vought, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget

The recent separations have occurred largely because parents have been flagged for fraud, a communicable disease or past criminal history — in some cases relatively minor violations, years in the past, that ordinarily would not lead to the loss of parental custody

The documents detail an intelligence-gathering effort by the United States and Mexican authorities, targeting more than 50 people including journalists, an attorney, and immigration advocates

Se trata de quienes ocuparían los principales consulados de Estados Unidos que desde ahora llevan como encomienda implementar la estrategia de protección al migrante anunciada la semana pasada en Palacio Nacional

El Gobierno mexicano advirtió que frente a las decisiones unilaterales de Estados Unidos en materia migratoria, como la de devolver a los migrantes que solicitaron asilo, México mantendrá su apoyo a estos grupos con una política soberana

La renovación de los consulados será financiada con 3 mil millones de pesos y espera incorporar a 2 mil 173 funcionarios, mayormente del Servicio Exterior Mexicano, que deberán atender las necesidades de más de 11 millones de mexicanos que habitan en Estados Unidos.

The cases include allegations of inappropriate touching, staff members allegedly watching minors while they bathed and showing pornographic videos to minors. Some of the allegations included inappropriate conduct by minors in shelters against other minors, as well as by staff members

A San Diego federal judge is considering expanding a landmark immigrant family separation case after a watchdog report found the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy was started as far back as July 2017

Of the 48,793 immigrants jailed on Feb. 9, the ICE data shows, 18,124 had criminal records. An additional 5,715 people had pending criminal charges, officials said, but they did not provide details. ICE also did not break down the severity of the crimes committed by or attributed to detainees

The lawsuit is part of a constitutional confrontation that Mr. Trump set off on Friday when he declared that he would spend billions of dollars more on border barriers than Congress had granted him

A federal judge on Friday permanently blocked the Trump administration from imposing conditions that police departments cooperate with immigration authorities to receive law enforcement grants

Under the National Emergencies Act, House passage of a disapproval resolution would trigger automatic consideration by the Senate, where a simple majority vote would be required to agree to it. Given opposition from some Republicans, that raises the prospect that a disapproval resolution would pass the narrowly divided Senate in an embarrassing rebuke to Trump

Of course Republicans want to secure the borders. Both parties do. But they have different views on how to do it. And more importantly for counting votes in the House and Senate, they diverge on how much to pay for it and what other immigration changes to swap in return

Human rights advocates say increased border security and daily quotas put on asylum requests at ports of entry are among factors pushing large groups of migrants to cross the border in risky, remote areas

Las separaciones de niños y padres en la frontera de Estados Unidos con México por parte de las autoridades estadounidenses continúan actualmente, denunció hoy una organización ante un comité de la Cámara de Representantes del país

Few would argue that the immigration system is fine the way it is. Immigration law is confusing and byzantine. We need a sober debate over what our overarching goals should be, and a streamlined bureaucratic process for getting us there

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser said in a statement Monday the District awarded the National Immigration Forum, a nonprofit advocate for immigrants, a $100,000 grant to provide financial support to residents, employees and their families, the statement said

President Trump on Tuesday issued another dark warning about the dangers of illegal immigration at the “lawless” southern border, but he made no mention of the national emergency power he has threatened to invoke to build a border wall without congressional approval

Altos funcionarios de Estados Unidos informaron que el Protocolo de Seguridad de Migrantes aumentará para regresar a más personas, incluídas familias, y se ampliará a otras garitas de la frontera

He made no mention of closing the government again, a move that backfired on him, but instead suggested he plans to declare a national emergency to build the wall. “I’ve set the table,” he said. “I’ve set the stage for doing what I’m going to do.”

¿Qué caso tiene que México siga exigiendo la visa a centroamericanos si la gran mayoría cruza sin pasaporte y por accesos irregulares? Una propuesta que hice desde entonces, y la sostengo, es que México retire el requisito de la Visa a Centroamericanos, en particular a los del “Triángulo del Norte”, (Guatemala, Honduras y El Salvador).

Cerca de 2,000 migrantes, provenientes principalmente de Honduras, El Salvador y Guatemala, que buscan llegar a Estados Unidos pasan sus días en el albergue temporal ubicado en el estadio Jesús Martínez Palillo, localizado en la alcaldía de Iztacalco.

El documento enviado el lunes a sus funcionarios en la frontera, cita una carta enviada por el Encargado de Negocios de la Embajada de EU, John Creamer, al Subsecretario de Relaciones Exteriores para América del Norte, Jesús Seade, en la que se da a conocer que EU considera que México aceptó en diciembre pasado recibir y proteger a los migrantes.

El Gobierno de Estados Unidos arrancó ayer el Protocolo de Protección a Migrantes que contempla la devolución temporal a México de migrantes que ingresaron ilegalmente a ese país para solicitar refugio.

Los soldados serán utilizados principalmente para instalar barreras de alambre adicionales, y ofrecer un nuevo sistema de vigilancia y monitoreo móvil en la zona fronteriza. Los planes indican que se instalarán 240 kilómetros más de alambre de púas, principalmente en los huecos entre los puertos de entrada.

El Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS) comenzará a regresar individuos a México a través de los puertos de entrada, informó en un comunicado la embajada de Estados Unidos en México.

While family separation at the border received significant media attention last year, a quieter family separation policy continued under the radar, and the separations have targeted American families.

With more than 2,300 U.S. troops still stationed at the southern border, lawmakers pressed Defense Department officials Tuesday to defend the deployment of active-duty members and asked whether President Trump plans on declaring a national emergency so he can use Pentagon funds for a border wall

It’s never easy to tell whether President Trump is staking out a negotiating position or drawing a line in the sand. But the comments he and his acting chief of staff made over the weekend about the border-security negotiations sound like Trump really is dug in on his wall project.

There are more than 48,000 people being held in immigrant detention in more than 200 facilities in the United States. More than two-thirds of them, according to the National Immigrant Justice Center, are confined by private companies, working on contracts with the federal government.

He describes, to the dollar, the alleged cost of illegal immigration — as well as the exact number of undocumented immigrants. But both numbers can only be estimates; there is no actual count of undocumented immigrants, and there is a big dispute over what kind of financial drain, if any, illegal immigration places on the United States.

The immigration-court backlog grew by at least 10% during the partial government shutdown, as a funding dispute centered on border security left the nation’s overloaded immigration system digging out of an even deeper hole than before the five-week standoff

President Trump’s company plans to institute E-Verify, a federal program that allows employers to check whether new hires are legally eligible to work in the United States, in every one of its golf clubs, hotels and resorts, following a Washington Post report that its club in Westchester County, N.Y., employed undocumented immigrants for years.

Emotions were high as nearly 75 people congregated outside a local community center wearing hiking boots and backpacks and carrying dozens of water jugs. This was the rallying point for volunteers joining immigrant rights group Border Angels on its latest trek into the arid Southern California desert to leave food, water and warm clothes for migrants crossing the southern border.

In a two-day span in January, 362 migrants surrendered to the Border Patrol in Antelope Wells, overwhelming the small base’s capacity to process asylum requests. Last week, a new group of 306 migrants arrived at the same location, including children in need of immediate medical care — a situation officials in New Mexico say is without precedent.

It’s unclear where the boat traveled from, but it came ashore near Pacific Coast Highway and Anderson Street shortly before 3 p.m. Nine of the Chinese nationals were men and one was a woman. The U.S. Coast Guard determined they were in good health, Rice said.

President Trump addressed the country on Tuesday, the 18th day of the government shutdown, about border security. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer delivered the Democratic response.

The White House announced that President Trump would make a prime-time address and then travel to the southern border this week.

El Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores, Marcelo Ebrard, llamó a los Embajadores y Cónsules de México a rediseñar la política exterior del País.

Los ingresos por remesas en el País superarán los 33 mil 500 millones de dólares en 2018, una nueva cifra máxima histórica, de acuerdo con Western Union.

A unos días de que el gobierno estadunidense anunciara que devolverán a los solicitantes de asilo a México, el secretario de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE), Marcelo Ebrard, reiteró que nuestro país no acepta ni aceptará un tratado que lo coloque como tercer país seguro para migrantes que buscan acceder a Estados Unidos (EU).

A day after a federal judge denounced the former Trump adviser Michael Flynn, at a sentencing hearing, for lying to F.B.I. agents, the judge had a similar message on Wednesday for former Attorney General Jeff Sessions: Follow the law. It was one of two court decisions this week making clear that the Trump administration was overstepping its powers to restrict the granting of asylum.

The Trump administration signaled Sunday that it would not compromise to avert a partial government shutdown at the end of this week, with senior White House policy advisor Stephen Miller declaring that “we’re going to do whatever is necessary” to secure money for the president’s much-vaunted border wall.

La firma del T-MEC está prevista para el 30 de noviembre en Buenos Aires, Argentina, a pesar de que el Congreso en Estados Unidos sea mayoritariamente del partido Demócrata, aseguró el secretario de Economía Ildefonso Guajardo

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a nationwide injunction against the Trump administration’s attempt to revoke deportation protections for some 700,000 young “Dreamers” who were brought into the United States illegally as children

Cuando el Congreso de Estados Unidos vuelva a reunirse el 13 de noviembre, tendrá menos de un mes de plazo para sancionar la financiación de partes del gobierno federal y posiblemente confrontará por los fondos para construir el muro propuesto ...

The Trump administration announced a major new effort to restrict people from claiming asylum at the U.S. border, setting up a legal battle over the president’s authority over immigration

Lawyers for a California woman asked a state judge Thursday to order Greyhound Lines to stop allowing federal immigration agents to board its buses and demand identification and proof of citizenship from passengers.

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent convicted of helping a Mexican national with multiple felony convictions reenter the country illegally was sentenced Monday to one year and one day in prison, officials said..