Immigration
TPS is given to nationals from countries that have been deemed too dangerous to return to, because of things like conflict or natural disaster.
Jun. 22, 2023
A national union representing U.S. asylum officers and other immigration employees is asking a federal court to invalidate the Biden administration’s new asylum rule.
Jun. 15, 2023
It's been almost a month since Title 42, the pandemic-era protocol that restricted asylum at the border, came to an end. But rights groups say in Nogales, access to asylum still faces hurdles.
Jun. 9, 2023
Southern Arizona Congressman Raúl Grijalva, whose district encompasses parts of Cochise County, tweeted that DeSantis’ visit was “to pander to the same old race baiting anti-immigrant extremist politicians and officials in southern Arizona."
Jun. 7, 2023
A new bill in the U.S. Senate would strengthen a visa program for some Afghans who worked alongside U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Efforts to create a pathway to citizenship for Afghan evacuees failed in Congress last year.
Jun. 7, 2023
A federal judge in Texas is expected to make a ruling soon on a case that could end DACA. The Obama-era program has given hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as kids protection from deportation and a work permit.
Jun. 5, 2023
Gov. Katie Hobbs on Friday spoke in Somerton, Arizona, to announce over $25 million dollars in border security funding for the Cocopah Indian Tribe and cities of Yuma, Somerton and Wellton.
Jun. 4, 2023
The Show spoke to Gia Del Pino, Kino Border Initiative communications director, to discuss what the border looks like three weeks past the end of Title 42.
May. 31, 2023
A Tucson man who came to Arizona decades ago under a refugee program has been identified as a prison guard who committed atrocities during the Bosnian War. A federal jury this month convicted him of immigration fraud.
May. 30, 2023
Mexico’s president announced this week that the country will begin offering temporary work permits to people from Central America. They are meant to help speed up work on controversial infrastructure projects.
May. 25, 2023
DNA collection by U.S. Customs and Border Protection has rapidly increased since the final year of the Trump administration. A new report from Congress’s watchdog says last fiscal year DNA samples were taken from about 634,000 people.
May. 25, 2023
The Show spoke about where the immigration system is now after the end of Title 42 with Samuel Cole, an immigration judge in Chicago and executive vice president of the National Association of Immigration Judges.
May. 22, 2023
This week, Mexican officials announced that dozens of migrants who had been kidnapped in northern Mexico have been rescued. Migrants making their way to the U.S.-Mexico border are frequent victims of robbery, assault and other crimes.
May. 19, 2023
A new report from Syracuse University research group Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, shows a significant rise in a type of lawsuit generally filed by immigrants whose applications for things like visas and work permits on stuck in long backlogs at USCIS.
May. 18, 2023
A case that could end the Obama-era DACA program is headed back to court next month. The program has given hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as kids protection from deportation and a work permit.
May. 18, 2023
Even before the end of Title 42, tens of thousands of migrants came right here to Phoenix — to a place called the Welcome Center. The Show took tour as uncertainty reigned about what would come next and who would be able to make it here going forward.
May. 18, 2023
At the Nogales port of entry on Thursday, those years were paved by protests against the policy — like in 2021, when migrants stood in line for hours with other travelers, vaccine cards in hand, only to be turned away
May. 12, 2023
Mexico’s immigration agency says it is temporarily closing 33 migrant detention centers throughout the country after a fire killed 40 migrants in government custody in March.
May. 11, 2023
Title 42 expulsions are ending. But Mexico has agreed to continue accepting migrants from Central America, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela being sent back from the U.S. Many worry that and other policies will continue putting migrants at risk.
May. 10, 2023
The new rule, published to the Federal Register this morning, requires asylum seekers to ask for protection in a different country before doing so in the U.S., or use the CBP One app to request an appointment at a U.S. port of entry.
May. 10, 2023
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