Immigration

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Melvin Vasquez was just hours away from being deported. He sat in a holding cell — filled with other fathers like him — just steps away from a plane to ship him back to Honduras. He had been detained for weeks, away from his three children, […]

NEW ORLEANS — The immediate fate of President Obama’s sweeping immigration overhaul now rests with a three-judge appeals panel after an intense legal clash on Friday between lawyers for the federal government and for a 26-state coalition that has challenged the executive actions. A federal district court judge in February […]

A federal appeals court in New Orleans heard oral arguments in a case that could determine the viability of President Obama’s plan to temporarily shield more than 4 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and issue them work permits. At stake is whether the president will get to implement his plan […]