Immigration

By Marnie Eisenstadt, Syracuse.com Rome, N.Y. — John Collins was standing outside the milk house at his dairy farm this morning when he heard yelling coming from inside. He ran in, he says, and saw his worker, Marcial de Leon Aguilar, pinned up against the window by armed men. The […]

By Miriam Jordan The terrorist attack in New York quickly turned into a debate over immigration policy after President Trump revealed Wednesday that Sayfullo Saipov, the man accused of killing eight people, had benefited from an obscure program known as the diversity visa lottery. Mr. Trump’s comment — and his […]

By LIZ ROBBINS For New York immigrant families just scraping by, the $680 it costs to apply for United States citizenship may be too much of an obstacle. Enter a new kind of lottery, one with a potential lifetime payoff. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a Democrat, plans to announce on […]

By Glenn Minnis The immigrant population in Texas has soared to well over four million over the last several decades, now placing the state in a tie with New York for the second largest such population across the country. A recent Pew Research Center analysis found that as of 2014 […]