• WATCH: Immigration and Customs Enforcement head testifies on budget amid debate over Title 42

    WATCH: Immigration and Customs Enforcement head testifies on budget amid debate over Title 42

    May 17, 2022 05:07 PM EDT

    Immigration and Customs Enforcement director Tae Johnson testified before House Appropriations committee on Tuesday on the organization's planned budget. Watch the hearing in the player above. "There are significant disagreements about immigration policy in this country and among members of this Subcommittee," Chairwoman Roybal-Allard said in her opening ...

  • A divided Congress grapples with rising gas prices, COVID relief and immigration

    A divided Congress grapples with rising gas prices, COVID relief and immigration

    Apr 28, 2022 10:35 PM EDT

    Lawmakers returned to Capitol Hill this week and were met with a growing list of legislative items to tackle. From funding for Ukraine to more COVID relief, there’s a lot they’re hoping to accomplish before the legislative calendar is upended by midterm elections. NewsHour congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins joins Judy Woodruff to discuss.

  • WATCH: Democratic representatives Jayapal, Garcia hold news briefing on Title 42 immigration

    WATCH: Democratic representatives Jayapal, Garcia hold news briefing on Title 42 immigration

    Apr 28, 2022 07:42 PM EDT

    ... will hamper preparations for Title 42 to end on May 23. About 14% of single adults from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were processed under immigration laws during a seven-day period ending last Thursday. That's up from only 5% in March, according to government figures. Summerhays' order requires ...

  • Texas repeals immigration inspection order that caused border gridlock

    Texas repeals immigration inspection order that caused border gridlock

    Apr 15, 2022 09:37 PM EDT

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday repealed his traffic-clogging immigration order that backed up commercial trucks at the U.S.-Mexico border, after a week of intensifying backlash and fears of deepening economic losses. The Republican governor dropped his new rules that had required all commercial ...

  • WATCH: House committee hearing on COVID-19 immigration rule Title 42 and asylum at the border

    WATCH: House committee hearing on COVID-19 immigration rule Title 42 and asylum at the border

    Apr 06, 2022 05:45 PM EDT

    The House Homeland Security committee held a hearing examine the Title 42 COVID-19 immigration rule on Wednesday. Watch the hearing in the player above. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior policy counsel at the American Immigration Council; Kennji Kizuka, associate director of research and analysis for refugee protection at Human Rights ...

  • GOP blocks $10 billion Senate COVID bill, demands votes on immigration

    GOP blocks $10 billion Senate COVID bill, demands votes on immigration

    Apr 05, 2022 10:48 PM EDT

    Shortly before Tuesday's vote, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., showed no taste for exposing his party to a divisive immigration vote. WATCH: White House press secretary Jen Psaki says U.S., allies will ban new investments in Russia "This is a bipartisan agreement that does a ...

  • Biden administration ends controversial Trump-era immigration rule

    Biden administration ends controversial Trump-era immigration rule

    Apr 01, 2022 10:35 PM EDT

    I think we can expect they will begin to phase out the Title 42 policy as their ability to process people under normal immigration proceedings ramps up by adding more agents, by adding more infrastructure and by adding more immigration judges to hear asylum claims. Amna Nawaz: So, Nick, you ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on Biden's shifting immigration policy, the Jan. 6 investigation

    Brooks and Capehart on Biden's shifting immigration policy, the Jan. 6 investigation

    Apr 01, 2022 10:30 PM EDT

    New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week in politics, including President Biden's decision to tap the country's strategic petroleum reserve, a return to pre-pandemic border policies and the latest on the Jan. 6 investigation.

  • U.S. immigration arrests drop amid focus on those accused of serious crimes

    U.S. immigration arrests drop amid focus on those accused of serious crimes

    Mar 11, 2022 06:07 PM EDT

    ... legal status who have committed serious crimes, officials said Friday. As it released its annual report, reflecting eight months under President Joe Biden, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said total immigration arrests dropped nearly 40% from the previous year while the number of people apprehended who had committed “aggravated ...

  • WATCH: Border patrol and immigration officials testify on 'Remain in Mexico' policy

    WATCH: Border patrol and immigration officials testify on 'Remain in Mexico' policy

    Mar 02, 2022 07:12 PM EDT

    Border patrol and immigration officials testified on Wednesday before the House Homeland Security committee on the 'Remain in Mexico' policy. Watch the hearing in the player above.