Immigration

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference on March 1, 2024.

Texas defeats Houston’s play to stop helping ICE, align with ‘sanctuary’ cities

Anna Giaritelli · April 25, 2026 7:00 am

Migrants lined up for processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Appeals court rules Trump asylum ban at southern border is illegal

FILE - This image from video provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via DVIDS shows manufacturing plant employees waiting to have their legs shackled at the Hyundai Motor Group's electric vehicle plant, Sept. 4, 2025, in Ellabell, Ga. (Corey Bullard/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP, File)

Immigration groups that want mass deportations blame Big Business for delay

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is placed under arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and FBI agents outside federal immigration court.

ICE barred from entering homes without judicial warrants and court arrests drop: Report

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testifies before Congress.

Only one person has received Trump’s ‘Gold Card’ visa, Lutnick says

The case will pit U.S. Solicitor General Jeffrey B. Wall against Neal Katyal, representing the State of Hawaii. Wall argued another case about the litigation over Trump's travel ban earlier this week before the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Virginia. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

3 Clinton-appointed judges to hear travel ban case at 9th Circuit

Ryan Lovelace May 10, 2017 3:00 pm

Ann Coulter mocks President Trump’s lack of progress on border wall

Mandy Mayfield May 10, 2017 3:19 am

Customs and Border Protection officers saw a 5 percent decrease from March to April. (AP Photo/Elliot Spagat)

Apprehensions at southern border fell further in April

Anna Giaritelli May 9, 2017 11:33 pm

Ann Coulter argued that President Trump's surprise firing of FBI Director James Comey is an attempt to distract the public from his inability to get funding for the border wall. (Colin Young-Wolff/Invision/AP)

Ann Coulter: Comey firing a ‘red herring’ to distract from delayed border wall

Anna Giaritelli May 9, 2017 11:16 pm

Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, laughs as he talks to moderator Jorge Ramos during the Brown & Black Forum, Monday, Jan. 11, 2016, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Ramos: Americans ‘accomplices’ in illegal immigration

Paul Bedard May 9, 2017 4:40 pm

People protest outside the Texas Governor's Mansion after the Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law that would allow police to ask about an individual's immigration status. (Ricardo B. Brazziell/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

ACLU issues ‘travel advisory’ for Texas over ‘sanctuary city’ crackdown

Sean Langille May 9, 2017 4:08 pm

Omar C. Jadwat, an American Civil Liberties Union senior staff attorney, argued that the revised ban should be deemed unconstitutional because of Trump's anti-Muslim comments while on the campaign trail and after the election. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

ACLU tells court that Trump’s travel ban is unconstitutional because Trump created it

Ryan Lovelace May 8, 2017 10:17 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions appointed seven new immigration judges. The announcement came less than a month after Sessions said the Trump administration was hoping to appoint 50 new immigration judges this year to speed up the deportation process for illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Justice Department swears in seven new immigration judges

Kelly Cohen May 8, 2017 6:44 pm

Trump won his election on the back of true stories about seven-times-convicted illegal immigrants murdering someone in the U.S. after being released from a sanctuary city's jail. (Charles Reed/U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)

The worst argument against deporting criminal aliens

David Freddoso May 8, 2017 4:36 pm

Attorneys for the U.S. Justice Department say the court shouldn't rely on Trump's statements, but on the text of the policy, which they say is necessary to protect the country from terrorism. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Trump’s travel ban goes before federal appeals court

Associated Press May 8, 2017 2:22 pm

Even the high-tech industry, which uses the majority of the visas, says that reform is needed —" but only to update the program.

H1-B overhaul gaining bipartisan support in Congress

Sean Higgins May 8, 2017 4:00 am

"Texas has now banned sanctuary cities in the Lone Star State," said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signs ban on so-called ‘sanctuary cities’

The Associated Press May 8, 2017 12:41 am