• Photographer documents immigration and life inside detention facility

    Photographer documents immigration and life inside detention facility

    Oct 18, 2022 10:25 PM EDT

    ... started this journey of photographing people who make this trek for a better life, you also said that you never considered visiting a U.S. immigration detention center as part of your photography work. But, in 2019, you yourself were detained for several weeks after your U.S. visa expired ...

  • Federal judge allows current DACA immigration program to continue temporarily

    Federal judge allows current DACA immigration program to continue temporarily

    Oct 14, 2022 08:11 PM EDT

    ... and other costs, when immigrants are allowed to remain in the country illegally. They also argued that the White House overstepped its authority by granting immigration benefits that are for Congress to decide. “Only Congress has the ability to write our nation’s immigration laws," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ...

  • Capehart and Gerson on how immigration debate and abortion access will play into midterms

    Capehart and Gerson on how immigration debate and abortion access will play into midterms

    Sep 16, 2022 10:30 PM EDT

    Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart and Washington Post opinion columnist Michael Gerson join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including controversies over immigration and how access to abortion is likely to play into the midterm elections.

  • White House officially undoes Trump-era immigration restriction

    White House officially undoes Trump-era immigration restriction

    Sep 09, 2022 04:44 PM EDT

    ... such fear among immigrants who sought to legally apply for a green card that many chose to forego health care and vital economic support,” American Immigration Lawyers Association President Jeremy McKinney said in a statement.“These changes to simplify and de-mystify the rule will truly change lives across our ...

  • Pecan farmers on Texas border get caught in immigration enforcement battle

    Pecan farmers on Texas border get caught in immigration enforcement battle

    Sep 02, 2022 09:44 PM EDT

    ... 6 of 10 stops in the Del Rio sector were migrants from Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua, who are likely to be released to pursue their immigration cases because poor diplomatic relations with those countries means the U.S. can't send them home. Migrants cross the river and climb a ...

  • Supreme Court blocks Biden immigration policy on deportation

    Supreme Court blocks Biden immigration policy on deportation

    Jul 22, 2022 08:29 PM EDT

    ... history or community ties. In a statement Friday, the Department of Homeland Security said that while it awaits a final ruling by the Supreme Court, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers "will make enforcement decisions on a case-by-case basis in a professional and responsible manner, informed by their experience ...

  • WATCH: Biden meets with Mexican counterpart López Obrador to discuss immigration and trade

    WATCH: Biden meets with Mexican counterpart López Obrador to discuss immigration and trade

    Jul 12, 2022 03:25 PM EDT

    ... the New Deal politics of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and chided conservatives. "I know your adversaries, conservatives, will be screaming to heaven. But without a bold (immigration) program of development and wellbeing, it won't be possible to solve problems," López Obrador said. Immigration has been a political flashpoint for Biden ...

  • Supreme Court hands down climate change, immigration rulings on final day of historic term

    Supreme Court hands down climate change, immigration rulings on final day of historic term

    Jun 30, 2022 10:55 PM EDT

    ... made, and the government was more convincing here. And so was the statute. The chief justice was looking at a provision in the -- in federal immigration law that gave the secretary of homeland security discretion. It said, the secretary may return aliens who enter this country from contiguous countries, while ...

  • How the White House is reacting to the Supreme Court's ruling on immigration policy

    How the White House is reacting to the Supreme Court's ruling on immigration policy

    Jun 30, 2022 10:40 PM EDT

    The Supreme Court’s decision on the “Remain in Mexico” policy is a surprise win for the Biden administration but comes with complicated political implications. NewsHour's Laura Barrón-López joins Judy Woodruff to give us a sense of how the White House is reacting to the news.

  • How U.S. immigration policy is pushing migrants to take more dangerous routes

    How U.S. immigration policy is pushing migrants to take more dangerous routes

    Jun 28, 2022 10:40 PM EDT

    ... access to migration. Unfortunately, all of this is caught up in the politics right now. And you have one party that has become very anti-immigration. And as we saw with former President Trump, even legal immigration was under attack. But when you cut off all avenues for legal migration ...