Oct 08 El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of U.S. crackdown By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press On Wednesday, Seitz shared a video with the Pope, highlighting the migrants' struggles. The Pope expressed support for the Catholic leaders aiding these communities. Continue reading
Oct 06 ICE spends millions on ads to recruit police for mass deportation efforts By Thomas Beaumont, Rebecca Santana, Associated Press U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforcement. Continue reading
Oct 03 Supreme Court allows Trump to strip protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants By Mark Sherman, Associated Press The justices issued an emergency order, which will last as long as the court case continues, putting on hold a lower-court ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco that found the administration had wrongly ended temporary protected status for… Continue reading
Oct 02 Watch 7:29 Laotian refugee living in U.S. since childhood faces threat of deportation By Stephanie Sy, Ian Couzens As President Trump intensifies his sweeping crackdown on immigration, more longtime residents, people who have lived in this country for years, are being caught up in the effort. Deportation flights to Laos have resumed for the first time in years. Continue watching
Oct 02 Immigration judge rejects Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s asylum bid, but he can appeal By Travis Loller, Associated Press Abrego Garcia has 30 days to appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals. Continue reading
Oct 01 Watch 8:50 How a bitter strike and immigrant labor transformed Hormel’s hometown By Fred de Sam Lazaro, Simeon Lancaster No single industry in the American economy relies more on immigrant labor than livestock and meat production. The shift began a half-century ago as the influence of labor unions, and wages, declined. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on how this… Continue watching
Oct 01 Someone against abortion but in favor of death penalty ‘is not really pro-life,’ Pope Leo says By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press Pope Leo XIV intervened for the first time in an abortion dispute roiling the U.S. Catholic Church by raising the seeming contradiction over what it really means to be “pro-life.”… Continue reading
Sep 30 Here’s why experts think Trump took ‘a sledgehammer’ to the H-1B visa worker program By Hannah Grabenstein Business leaders support the visas as a way to bring talent to the U.S., while others say the program allows companies to hire foreign workers at lower wages than they would pay Americans. Continue reading
Sep 29 Illinois governor says troops could be deployed to Chicago as immigration agents patrol downtown By Sophia Tareen, Associated Press The sight of armed, camouflaged and masked Border Patrol agents making arrests near famous downtown Chicago landmarks has amplified concerns about the Trump administration's growing federal intervention across U.S. cities. Continue reading
Sep 26 WATCH: Duffy says states must withdraw commercial driver licenses from foreigners who overstay visas By Josh Funk, Associated Press The Transportation Department will immediately tighten up the requirements for noncitizens to get commercial drivers' licenses after three fatal crashes this year that officials say were caused by immigrant truck drivers who never should have received licenses. Continue reading