Judge orders Trump administration to accept new DACA applications

The Trump administration must accept new applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protects some young immigrants from deportation, a federal judge ruled Friday, in vacating a memo from the acting Homeland Security secretary that had suspended it.

Devastating hurricanes to spur more Central American migration

Inside shelters and improvised camps across Central America, families who lost everything in the severe flooding set off by the two major hurricanes are arriving at the same conclusion.

Alejandro Mayorkas: Biden’s pick for secretary of Homeland Security

President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Alejandro Mayorkas for his secretary of Homeland Security. Mayorkas is the first Latino and immigrant to be nominated to the position in U.S. history.

U.S.-Canadian border closure extended through Dec. 21

The U.S.-Canadian border will remain closed to non-essential travel for at least another month through Dec. 21 as Covid-19 cases surge across America. 

Border Patrol agents arrested 15 on Florida shore

U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested 15 people who made shore in Palm Beach in what authorities called a “maritime smuggling event.”

Inmate firefighter injured battling California blaze now set to be deported to Laos

Bounchan Keola has asked for a pardon from his prison sentence, showing that he has changed for the better and that his service to the state battling wildfires should count for something.

Immigration activists have renewed hope with Biden's victory

In his first 100 days, Joe Biden is expected to reinstate protections for the hundreds of thousands of DREAMERS brought to the U.S. as children.

Immigrant pleads guilty to killing California officer in case that reiginited Trump border security debate

A Mexican immigrant in the country illegally pleaded guilty under a deal with prosecutors in an emotional hearing Thursday to killing a Fiji-born California police officer in a case that President Donald Trump used to bolster his call for tougher border security.

US judge blocks Trump immigration rule on public benefits

A federal judge in Chicago struck down a key immigration rule Monday that would deny green cards to immigrants who use food stamps or other public benefits, a blow to the Trump administration on the eve of the election.

Eric Holder suggests child abuse investigation into migrant family-separation policy

During an interview with FOX 13 political editor Craig Patrick, former Attorney General Eric Holder suggested the Trump Administration could be investigated for child abuse.

ACLU: Trump administration not helping find migrant children's parents

The families separated under the president's zero-tolerance policy in 2018 have been reunited under court orders but parents who were separated in 2017 cannot be found.

Parents of 545 children separated at border can’t be found

The children were separated between July 1, 2017, and June 26, 2018, when a federal judge in San Diego ordered that children in government custody be reunited with their parents.

Man tries to smuggle 1,000 pounds of pot in trash truck

Customs officials say they caught a trash truck driver trying to smuggle in 1,000 pounds of marijuana into the country disguised as trash headed to a landfill.

Canada extends U.S. border closure until at least Nov. 21

Limits on travel between Canada and the United States will persist for at least four more weeks, the Canadian government confirmed Monday despite signs of growing impatience south of the border.

Border Patrol rescues four children abandoned by smugglers on riverbank in Texas

Agents with the U.S. Border Patrol rescued four young children that were left alone on the banks of the Rio Grande River in Texas by a human smuggler.

Car smuggling 10 immigrants into U.S. stopped by Border Patrol

Agents with the U.S. Border Patrol arrested 10 migrants after a car they were inside crossed into the United States near an area of the border wall that was still under construction in Arizona.