immigration

Immigrant parents fight chaotic system for their children

By Nomaan Merchant, Julie Watson, Gisela Salomon, Associated Press

HOUSTON — The U.S. government's improvised system to reunite immigrant families it separated at the border has left hundreds of parents in limbo after they were deemed "ineligible" to get their children back.

Former Marine’s wife leaves for Mexico after failing to stop deportation

By Mike Schneider, Associated Press

After exhausting all her options to stop her deportation, Alejandra Juarez chose to leave for Mexico rather than be sent off in handcuffs.

U.S., ACLU divide on how to reunify separated families

By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press

The Trump administration and the American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday revealed widely divergent plans on how to reunite hundreds of immigrant children with parents who have been deported since the families were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Will the economic boom complicate efforts to curb immigration?

By Colleen Long, Associated Press

One of President Donald Trump's priorities, low unemployment, is complicating another: curbing immigration.

Trump order to withhold funding from ‘sanctuary cities’ is illegal, court says

By Associated Press

U.S. District Judge William Orrick said in November that Trump's order threatened all federal funding and that the president didn't have the authority to attach new conditions to spending approved by Congress.

Trump administration was warned of ‘traumatic psychological injury’ from family separations, official says

By Joshua Barajas

A top health official told lawmakers Tuesday that the Trump administration was warned about instituting “any policy” resulting in family separations because of the effects such separations could have on the wellbeing of immigrant children.

Trump indicates pre-election shutdown unlikely

By Catherine Lucey, Zeke Miller, Associated Press

President Donald Trump has indicated to staff that he won't try to shut down the federal government before the midterm elections to try to win more money for a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, administration officials said Tuesday.

WATCH: ICE, Border Patrol testify at Senate hearing on family separations

By Alan Fram, Associated Press

The hearing is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. EDT today. Watch it here.

Trump repeats he would have ‘no problem’ shutting down government over border security funding

By Darlene Superville, Zeke Miller, Associated Press

Government funding expires at the end of September, just weeks before the midterm elections. A shutdown would be the second under unified Republican control of Washington, following an embarrassing weekend stoppage in January.