immigration

Supreme Court order allows Trump's new green card rule to take effect

By Mark Sherman, Associated Press

The new policy can be used to deny green cards to immigrants over their use of public benefits including Medicaid, food stamps and housing vouchers, as well as other factors.

U.S. imposes visa rules for pregnant women

By Matthew Lee, Colleen Long, Associated Press

The Trump administration on Thursday published new visa rules aimed at restricting “birth tourism," in which women travel to the United States to give birth so their children can have U.S. citizenship.

U.S. to impose visa restrictions for pregnant women

By Matthew Lee, Colleen Long, Associated Press

The rules would make it more difficult for pregnant women to travel on a tourist visa.

Mexico begins flying and busing migrants back to Honduras

By María Verza, Sonia Pérez D., Associated Press

CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico — Hundreds of Central American migrants who waded across a river into Mexico in hopes of eventually reaching the U.S. were sent back to their homeland or retreated across the border Tuesday after Mexican troops blocked their…

Migrants cross river into Mexico after being refused passage to U.S.

By Sonia Perez D., Maria Verza, Associated Press

The 3,000 Central American migrants have demanded they be allowed to move freely through Mexico to reach the United States, but Mexican officials have refused.

100 years later, prohibition's legacy remains

By David Crary, Associated Press

Even with prohibition ending nearly a century ago, its impact on American politics continue to be seen.

Trial opens over Border Patrol detention conditions

By Astrid Galvan, Associated Press

The lawsuit filed in 2015 applies to eight Border Patrol facilities where attorneys say migrants are for long stretches of time in squalid and freezing cells.

Groups demand answers after Iranians say they were detained on U.S.-Canada border

By Gene Johnson, Associated Press

Tensions between the United States and Iran are high following a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad last week that killed a top Iranian general. Iran's leaders have vowed to retaliate.

U.S. starts sending asylum-seekers back across Arizona border

By Astrid Galvan, Christopher Sherman, Associated Press

Authorities are expanding a program known as Remain in Mexico that requires tens of thousands of asylum seekers to wait out their immigration court hearings in Mexico.

U.S. had its slowest population growth rate in a century

By Mike Schneider, Associated Press

Declining births, increasing deaths and the slowdown of international migration made the past year’s population growth rate in the United States the slowest in a century, according to figures released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau.