Judge blocks Trump’s policy requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico
The judge held off on enforcing his decision until Friday to give the government a chance to ask an appeals court for a review.
Number of asylum seekers sent back over border to grow
Border officials are aiming to more than quadruple the number of asylum seekers sent back over the southern border each day, a major expansion of a top government effort to address the swelling number of Central Americans arriving in the…
Migrants encounter glitches with new U.S. asylum policy
Asylum seekers, who are being forced to wait in Mexico, are getting mixed messages about when their hearings are scheduled.
Asylum seekers forced to wait in Mexico say they fear for their safety
The Trump administration's new policy calls for people seeking asylum in the U.S. to be held in Mexico as they await their hearings.
The U.S. government kept a database on journalists, activists, organizers and "instigators" during an investigation into last year's migrant caravan from Mexico, infuriating civil liberties and media groups.
Border agents have been told to explicitly target Spanish speakers and migrants from Latin America in carrying out a Trump administration program requiring asylum seekers wait in Mexico, according to memos obtained by The Associated Press.
President Donald Trump has long railed against immigration as a scourge on the economy and national security. Along those lines, here are some fundamental myths about U.S. immigration and the economy.
The U.S. has a backlog of hundreds of thousands of immigration cases. José represents one of them: After fleeing violence in his birth country of Nicaragua, he requested U.S. asylum and passed a credible fear interview. But with a scheduled…
The Trump administration announced Thursday that some Central Americans seeking asylum at the southern border will be forced to remain in Mexico while their cases are being processed, a significant policy change that critics say could endanger migrants trying to…
