Immigration
As hundreds of asylum seekers from Haiti continue to arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border, aid groups say they're running out of resources to help.
Dec. 30, 2021
The Biden administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court for permission to end the Migrant Protection Protocols, known as MPP, the Trump-era policy that forces asylum seekers to await U.S. immigration hearings in Mexico.
Dec. 30, 2021
The first phase of the program will roll out in a handful of U.S. cities and have officers with the agency’s Homeland Security Investigations wear cameras during pre-planned operations.
Dec. 21, 2021
The Biden administration abruptly pulled out of settlement talks with the ACLU and other legal groups supporting separated families last week.
Dec. 21, 2021
This week, the parliamentarian for the U.S. Senate shot down yet another immigration reform measure Congressional Democrats hoped to pass through the budget reconciliation process.
Dec. 17, 2021
Lawyers representing some of those who have been reunited have been in talks for months with the administration.
Dec. 17, 2021
The request comes as a task force set up by the Biden administration continues its search for migrant families separated at the border under former President Donald Trump’s zero tolerance policy.
Dec. 14, 2021
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court ruled to uphold a lower court decision mandating the use of the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols, or MPP, which forces asylum seekers to await U.S. immigration court hearings in Mexico.
Dec. 14, 2021
The U.S. has officially begun sending migrants back to Mexico under the revamped Migrant Protection Protocols program, or MPP, the Trump-era policy that forces asylum seekers to await U.S. court hearings in Mexico.
Dec. 13, 2021
The number of migrants dying in the deserts of southern Arizona now is higher than it has been in decades.
Dec. 10, 2021
A new five-part series from the Arizona Republic is attempting to put a face to the migrant crisis. The series profiles three women that journalists Rafael Carranza and the late Nick Oza met in their reporting in Nogales, Sonora: Elena Ramirez, Antonia Castillo and Josefa Ramirez.
Dec. 9, 2021
Chris Magnus comes to the agency amid a record number of apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border and as the Biden administration continues the use of asylum-restricting policies like the Migrant Protection Protocols and the pandemic policy, Title 42.
Dec. 8, 2021
Diversity visas are awarded to some 50,000 people each year from pre-selected countries with low immigration to the U.S. It’s a lottery system with millions of applicants, those selected must apply for and use their green cards within the fiscal year.
Dec. 8, 2021
Officials in Yuma say about 5,000 migrants and asylum seekers have presented themselves to the Border Patrol since the end of last week. The news drew Gov. Doug Ducey to an afternoon press conference at the border there Tuesday.
Dec. 8, 2021
The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday afternoon to confirm Tucson Police Chief Chris Magnus as U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner.
Dec. 7, 2021
DHS says its reinstating the controversial Trump-era policy under court order by next week.
Dec. 3, 2021
Customs and Border Protection has established new guidelines for the care agents must give to children and to pregnant women in the agency’s custody.
Dec. 1, 2021
The Biden administration is trying to preserve DACA the embattled DACA program with a proposed federal rule change that would formalize the Obama-era program’s protections.
Nov. 29, 2021
Haitian migrants arriving in Mexico may soon be eligible to stay and work in the country without applying for asylum.
Nov. 24, 2021
Since the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan and the Taliban took over, evacuees from that country are on their way to the U.S. to be resettled in communities around the country — including here in Arizona. And now, the government is pausing its resettlement program for refugees from other parts of the world until early 2022 in order to prioritize those Afghan evacuees.
Nov. 18, 2021
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