Border arrests are expected to rise slightly in August but are hovering near 4-year lows
U.S. authorities say arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico during August are expected to rise slightly from July
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U.S. authorities say arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico during August are expected to rise slightly from July
August 31, 2024The Biden administration has temporarily suspended permits for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to enter the United States and stay up to two years amid concerns about fraud by their financial sponsors
August 02, 2024U.S. arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico during July have plummeted to a new low for Joe Biden’s presidency, raising prospects a temporary ban on asylum may be lifted soon
July 31, 2024Border Patrol agents are breaking from a practice in effect since 1997 by no longer asking migrants if they fear deportation
July 21, 2024Issues around illegal immigration were the focus of the second night of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee
July 17, 2024The Homeland Security Department says more than 300,000 Haitians already in the United States will be eligible for a major expansion of temporary legal status because conditions in the Caribbean nation are unsafe for return
June 28, 2024The Biden administration's asylum halt that has led to a 40% drop in arrests for illegal border crossings this month falls hardest on nationalities most susceptible to being deported
June 27, 2024President Joe Biden has suspended asylum processing at the U.S. border
June 09, 2024President Joe Biden has ordered a halt to asylum processing at the U.S. border with Mexico when illegal entries reach a threshold deemed excessive
June 04, 2024U.S. figures show that San Diego became the busiest corridor for illegal crossings in April
May 17, 2024The Biden administration plans to partially end the 27-year-old court supervision of how the federal government cares for child migrants, shortly after producing its own list of safeguards against mistreatment
May 09, 2024Authorities say lottery bids for highly educated worker visas plunged nearly 40% this year
April 30, 2024A federal judge sharply questions the Biden administration’s position that it bears no responsibility for housing and feeding migrant children who are waiting for agents in makeshift camps
March 29, 2024In his victory speech Tuesday, former president Donald Trump echoed false statements on social media that the Biden administration had secretly flown hundreds of thousands of migrants to the United States
March 06, 2024A union of immigration judges has been ordered to get supervisor approval to speak to anyone outside the Justice Department, potentially quieting a frequent critic of heavily backlogged immigration courts in an election year
March 05, 2024U.S. asylum officers were instructed nearly a year ago to apply a higher screening standard on people who cross the border illegally to claim asylum after passing though another country
February 28, 2024Buses dropped off hundreds of migrants at a San Diego bus stop instead of at a reception center that had been serving as a staging area because it ran out of local funding sooner than expected
February 23, 2024Hundreds of dates are written on concrete-filled steel columns erected along the U.S. border with Mexico to memorialize when the Border Patrol has repaired illicit openings in the would-be barriers
December 19, 2023A federal judge is prohibiting the separation of families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration for eight years
December 08, 2023Venezuelans became the largest nationality arrested for illegally crossing the U.S. border last month, replacing Mexicans for the first time on record
October 21, 2023San Diego's well-oiled system of migrant shelters is being tested like never before as U.S. Customs and Border Protection releases migrants to the streets of California’s second-largest city because shelters are full
October 10, 2023After a dip in illegal crossings that followed policy changes in May, the Biden administration is again on its heels as more asylum-seekers cross the U.S. border from Mexico
September 21, 2023