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Settlement over Trump-era family separations at the border limits future separations for 8 years

By Rebecca Santana, Elliot Spagat, Associated Press

The agreement announced Monday also provides families that were split under the Trump administration with temporary legal status and short-term housing aid.

New York City to limit migrant families with children to 60-day shelter stays

By Anthony Izaguirre, Associated Press

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced he is limiting shelter stays for migrant families with children to 60 days in the city's housing system.

What’s behind the surge in migrants arriving to Italy?

By Renata Brito, Associated Press

Thousand of migrants reached the Italian island of Lampedusa on more than 100 boats this week. Experts say bad weather created a bottleneck resulting in the spike of arrivals from Tunisia.

Judge blocks limits on asylum at U.S.-Mexico border but gives Biden administration time to appeal

By Rebecca Santana, Associated Press

The order from U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of the Northern District of California takes away a key enforcement tool set in place by the Biden administration as coronavirus-based restrictions on asylum expired in May.

Texas trooper’s accounts of bloodied and drowning migrants on U.S.-Mexico border unleashes criticism

By Acacia Coronado, Associated Press

Nicholas Wingate sent an email this month giving accounts of migrants that were left bloodied from razor-wire barriers and fainting in triple-digit temperatures.

Migrants face new border reality as Title 42 pandemic restrictions expire

By Valerie Gonzalez, Elliot Spagat, Giovanna Dell'Orto, Associated Press

The U.S. entered a new immigration enforcement era Friday, ending a three-year-old asylum restriction and enacting a set of strict new rules to push migrants to apply for protections where they are, skipping the dangerous journey north.

Migrants rush across U.S. border in final hours before Title 42 asylum restrictions are lifted

By Valerie Gonzalez, Associated Press

Migrants are rushing across the Mexico border in hopes of entering the U.S. in the final hours before pandemic-related asylum restrictions are lifted.

House Republicans pass new asylum seeker restrictions as Title 42 ends, Biden promises veto

By Stephen Groves, Associated Press

The GOP proposal is a hard-line counter to President Joe Biden’s policies just as migrants are amassing along the border with the end of coronavirus pandemic restrictions.

Attorney discusses migrants’ lawsuit against Florida Gov. DeSantis

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is facing a class action lawsuit for flying roughly 50 migrants unannounced from Texas to Martha's Vineyard, without food, shelter or resources planned. The suit says that DeSantis and other individuals defrauded vulnerable immigrants to advance…

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WATCH: White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre holds briefing on migrant flights, Ukraine atrocities

By Associated Press

For a second day, the White House hammered the Republican governors of Texas and Florida for arranging for the transport of migrants to Democratic strongholds in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.