• WATCH LIVE: House homeland security committee holds hearing with Mayorkas on immigration

    WATCH LIVE: House homeland security committee holds hearing with Mayorkas on immigration

    Mar 17, 2021 01:29 PM EDT

    A House committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

  • U.S. House prepares for immigration legislation amid migrant surge at the border

    U.S. House prepares for immigration legislation amid migrant surge at the border

    Mar 16, 2021 10:45 PM EDT

    ... or the guest worker plan, I promise you that's what you're going to hear from the Republicans on the floor to vote against immigration reform.Judy Woodruff: And what does that mean, in terms of legislation this week? Henry Cuellar: Well, I mean, I believe we have the ...

  • WATCH: Schumer holds briefing on southern border immigration, Cuomo

    WATCH: Schumer holds briefing on southern border immigration, Cuomo

    Mar 16, 2021 08:13 PM EDT

    ... Biden as he seeks to break from his immediate predecessor, President Donald Trump, who waged a broad effort to significantly curtail both legal and illegal immigration. Republicans in Congress have claimed that Biden's support for immigration legislation and decision to allow people to make legal asylum claims has become ...

  • Florida sues to stop Biden's immigration directives

    Florida sues to stop Biden's immigration directives

    Mar 09, 2021 10:21 PM EDT

    MIAMI (AP) — The state of Florida is suing President Joe Biden's administration over new directives that have halted detentions of some immigrants who have served time in prison. Florida's Attorney General Ashley Moody said on Tuesday that the new guidance has resulted in immigration officials declining to take ...

  • Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump's CPAC appearance and Biden's immigration policies

    Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on Trump's CPAC appearance and Biden's immigration policies

    Mar 01, 2021 11:30 PM EDT

    The odds of that actually happening are pretty low. It's been a generation since Congress has really revamped America's immigration laws. And the reality is that there is only so much that you can do through executive action. And the Biden White House is seeing some of those ...

  • Biden lifts Trump-era ban blocking legal immigration to U.S.

    Biden lifts Trump-era ban blocking legal immigration to U.S.

    Feb 25, 2021 08:33 PM EDT

    ... It also barred entry to immigrants with employment-based visas unless they were considered beneficial to the national interest such as health care professionals. WATCH: Immigration advocates want Biden to do more to prevent discriminatory policies And it slammed the door on thousands of visa lottery winners who were randomly ...

  • Immigration advocates want Biden to do more to prevent discriminatory policies

    Immigration advocates want Biden to do more to prevent discriminatory policies

    Feb 21, 2021 10:23 PM EDT

    On his first day in office, President Biden rescinded the Trump-era so-called “Muslim Travel Bans,” which affected travel from several Muslim-majority nations. And while immigration advocates praised the reversal of what they called discriminatory policies, NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette Feliciano reports on the call for the Biden administration to go even further.

  • Path to citizenship in new Democratic immigration bill

    Path to citizenship in new Democratic immigration bill

    Feb 18, 2021 05:59 PM EDT

    ... border, address the root causes of migration crack down on bad actors and create safe and legal channels for those who are seeking protection." Comprehensive immigration legislation has struggled to gain traction in Congress for decades. Menendez was part of the bipartisan Gang of Eight senators who negotiated a 2013 ...

  • Biden faces pressure as U.S. sets new course on immigration

    Biden faces pressure as U.S. sets new course on immigration

    Feb 16, 2021 04:37 PM EDT

    Texas and Arizona have both sued to stop Biden's 100-day deportation moratorium, which a judge temporarily put on hold. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement officers are complaining about proposed rules to focus on detaining and removing people in the country illegally who pose national security threats or have ...

  • Why reforming the U.S. approach to deportations could be Biden's biggest immigration challenge

    Why reforming the U.S. approach to deportations could be Biden's biggest immigration challenge

    Feb 03, 2021 10:51 PM EDT

    ... Congressional committees and the department’s inspector general, a whistleblower alleged that these agreements “confer on the union the ability to indefinitely delay changes to immigration enforcement policies and practices as well.” Advocates and experts who deal with cases of people in the crosshairs of the criminal justice and immigration ...