immigration

WATCH: Trump administration proposes longer detention of migrant families

The Department of Homeland Security is moving to end a long-standing federal court agreement that limits how long immigrant children can be kept in detention.

How Trump is reshaping one of the country’s most liberal courts

By Gretchen Frazee

President Donald Trump’s judicial nominations may be shifting one of the nation’s most liberal courts further to the right, blunting what many consider his opponents’ most effective tool against administration policies.

Why this artist used seesaws to protest at the border

By Joshua Barajas

For about 40 minutes, three pink seesaws bobbed up and down, up and down, along the U.S.-Mexico border, uniting children from both countries in a rare moment of shared play. The artists behind the installation argue that the playful nature…

Appeals court allows Trump asylum rules to take effect in New Mexico and Texas

By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press

The policy would deny asylum to anyone who passes through another country on the way to the U.S. without seeking protection there.

WATCH: California sues to block Trump rule limiting benefits for immigrants

By Don Thompson, Associated Press

The lawsuit from California and three other states challenges new Trump administration rules blocking green cards for many immigrants who use public assistance including Medicaid, food stamps and housing vouchers.

Migrant kids separated at border faced abuse in foster homes

By Garance Burke, Juliet Linderman, Martha Mendoza, Associated Press

Dozens of families are now preparing to sue the federal government, including several who say their young children were sexually, physically or emotionally abused in federally funded foster care.

Soap, sleep essential to migrant kids’ safety, according to panel of judges

By Associated Press

A three-judge panel for the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco dismissed a challenge to a lower court decision that authorities had failed to provide safe and sanitary conditions for the children under the 1997 settlement.

Immigration protesters say 2 hurt when truck drives at them

By Associated Press

At least two people were injured Wednesday night outside the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, according to the Jewish youth movement Never Again Action.

Trump official says Statue of Liberty poem is about Europeans

By Zeke Miller, Ashley Thomas, Associated Press

USCIS head Ken Cuccinelli said that the famous inscription on the Statue of Liberty welcoming immigrants into the country is about "people coming from Europe."…