Tag: Immigration
Texas governor: State, crowdsourcing will fund border wall
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that he will use $250 million in state money and crowdsourced financing to build more...
US and Mexico seek ways to do more on irregular immigration
MEXICO CITY — In consecutive visits this month, Vice President Kamala Harris and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have conveyed to the most important...
US and Mexico seek ways to do more on irregular immigration
MEXICO CITY — In consecutive visits this month, Vice President Kamala Harris and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have conveyed to the most important...
US ends strict Trump-era asylum rules for violence victims
The U.S. government has put an end to two Trump administration policies that made it harder for Central American immigrants fleeing violence to qualify...
Jury deciding if immigration detainees must get minimum wage
SEATTLE — A federal jury is deciding whether one of the nation's biggest private prison companies must pay minimum wage — instead of $1...
Officials: Migrant boat capsizes off Yemen, some 200 missing
SANAA, Yemen — U.N. and Yemeni officials said Monday a boat capsized off the coast of war-torn Yemen a day earlier and some 200...
Panic attacks highlight stress at shelters for migrant kids
Associated Press — Paramedics were called regularly to treat children suffering from panic attacks so severe their hands would constrict into balls and their...
Man pleads guilty in charge linked to 2019 immigration raids
JACKSON, Miss. — A man who worked as an employee services contractor at a Mississippi poultry processing plant pleaded guilty Monday to a federal...
Lawsuit: ICE detained US citizen for a week in Tacoma
SEATTLE — A naturalized U.S. citizen from Mexico is suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying the agency held him in detention for a...
US closes Trump-era office for victims of immigrant crime
SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration said Friday that it has dismantled a Trump-era government agency to help victims of crimes committed by immigrants,...