immigration

More than 53,000 immigrants have been deported or repatriated by South Africa in a crackdown

By Associated Press

The crackdown has coincided with a series of sometimes violent protests by anti-migrant groups demanding that all immigrants in the country without documents return home.

Minnesota prosecutors obtain long withheld evidence in probe into fatal shootings of Good, Pretti

By Philip Marcelo, Rebecca Boone, Associated Press

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced Monday that her office now has hard drives with statements, police body camera video, and other evidence previously withheld by federal officials.

ICE shot and killed a Colombian man in Maine. This is the 2nd time in a week the agency used deadly force

By Patrick Whittle, Leah Willingham, Jack Brook, Associated Press

Bystander video taken after the shooting showed agents trying to slow a white sedan that was driving in circles in an intersection in Biddeford, southwest of Portland.

WATCH: Rep. Garcia holds news conference on fatal ICE shooting in Houston

By Rebecca Santana, Jack Brook, Associated Press

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican man living in the U.S. who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, was not the person federal authorities had been targeting in a Houston operation, U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia said Thursday.

Suspected Ebola patient put in Equatorial Guinea hotel with deportees from U.S., lawyers say

By Monika Pronczuk, Associated Press

Migrants deported from the U.S. and detained in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea say that authorities there also have used the facility to quarantine at least one suspected Ebola patient, deportees and lawyers representing them said Thursday.

What's next for immigrants with TPS after Supreme Court ruling?

By Maria Ramirez Uribe

The legal status of nearly 1.3 million immigrants facing war or environmental disasters in their home countries is up in the air following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. In a 6-3 decision, the…

A new ICE facility could speed up deportations for families and kids

By Jack Brook, Associated Press

The Trump administration plans to open a 528-bed holding center for migrant families and unaccompanied children awaiting removal from the U.S., putting it next to a Louisiana airfield that has become the nation’s largest hub of deportation flights.

Great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark praises Supreme Court ruling affirming birthright citizenship

By Terry Tang, Associated Press

The great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark, the Chinese American at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court case that established the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship, called Tuesday’s ruling a victory for all Americans, saying it reaffirmed that precedent.

How the Supreme Court became a pivotal force in Trump's immigration agenda

By Rebecca Santana, Associated Press

President Donald Trump's administration looked to the Supreme Court to greenlight its sweeping hard-line immigration agenda and, by and large, it got the backing it was looking for with one key exception.

Supreme Court rejects Trump limits on birthright citizenship

By Mark Sherman, Associated Press

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.