Immigration

Congress will return Tuesday facing a familiar threat: President Trump’s demand for billions of dollars for his U.S.-Mexico border wall with the risk of a government shutdown if he doesn’t get it. The lame-duck session gives the outgoing House Republican majority one final test of governing before Democrats take over […]

The flow of foreign college students coming to the U.S. slowed for the second year in a row in 2017 — cementing a slide that college leaders have blamed on President Donald Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric. The U.S. is still the top destination in the world for international students, according to […]

The president of Catholic Charities in San Antonio has returned from helping a flood of immigrant families recently released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and he plans to go back. Two weeks ago, with little warning, ICE released hundreds of families seeking asylum. El Paso was one of the cities […]

Washington (CNN) – Immigration authorities have detained a record number of undocumented immigrants this past year, according to data obtained from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE held an average of more than 42,000 people in custody each day throughout fiscal year 2018. The previous record high since ICE began tracking the […]