immigration

WATCH: Trump calls new border wall a 'world-class security system'

By Kevin Freking, Elliot Spagat, Associated Press

The president reveled in details of construction, saying Border Patrol and military officials persuaded him to adopt more expensive designs. "It's the Rolls-Royce version," President Donald Trump said.

Detained migrant children suffer 'trauma after trauma,' say pediatric experts

The numbers of immigrant children being detained by U.S. authorities at the U.S.-Mexico border have dropped in recent months. Still, medical professionals continue to articulate concerns about the harmful effects that any detention can have on both the short- and…

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'No homeland, no fear': A conversation with the radical art collective that imagines a borderless America

By Elizabeth Flock

"Performance artists cannot escape censorship or controversy. It comes with the job," said Guillermo Gómez-Peña of the performance art troupe La Pocha Nostra.

In Democratic debate, Biden says 'I stand with Barack Obama all 8 years — good, bad, indifferent'

By Associated Press

Former Vice President Joe Biden is dismissing questions about the Obama administration's record of deportations by touting the former Democratic president's effort to open doors to immigrants.

Supreme Court allows broad enforcement of Trump's asylum limits

By Associated Press

The justices' order late Wednesday temporarily undoes a lower-court ruling. The policy is meant to deny asylum to anyone who passes through another country on the way to the U.S. without seeking protection there.

Appeals court puts ruling blocking asylum change on hold

By Associated Press

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stay that puts a stay on the ruling blocking Trump's policy that would prevent migrants from seeking asylum along the entire southwest border.

News Wrap: North Korea says it's open to new nuclear talks with U.S.

In our news wrap Monday, North Korea says it is willing to restart nuclear talks with the U.S. Previous discussions stalled after President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un held a failed summit in Hanoi in February, but Trump…

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WATCH: Acting CBP chief says fewer border crossers apprehended in August

By Associated Press

The Trump administration says it saw a 30% drop in the number of people apprehended at the southern U.S. border from July to August, amid summer heat and aggressive crackdowns on both sides of the border to deter migrants.

Judge reinstates nationwide halt on Trump asylum policy plan

By Associated Press

A U.S. judge in California on reinstated a nationwide halt on the Trump administration's plan to prevent most migrants from seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.

How climate change is driving emigration from Central America

By Miranda Cady Hallett, The Conversation

The link between environmental instability and emigration from Central America became apparent in the late 1990s and early 2000s as earthquakes and hurricanes, especially Hurricane Mitch in 1998 and its aftermath, were ravaging parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador.