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Hundreds of migrants leave southern Mexico on foot in a new caravan headed for the US border
Hundreds of migrants from around a dozen countries have left from Mexico’s southern border on foot in an attempt to make it to the U.S. border.
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Border arrests plunge 29% in June to the lowest of Biden's presidency as asylum halt takes hold
Arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico plunged 29% in June to the lowest month of Joe Biden’s presidency.
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US signs deal to help Panama remove migrants who may be heading north
The United States is going to pay for flights and offer other help to Panama to remove migrants.
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Federal judge awards over $1.5 million to US citizen siblings falsely held in CBP custody
A federal judge in California has awarded a family $1.5 million after ruling U.S. Customs and Border Protection violated the rights of a 9-year-old girl and her brother who were falsely imprisoned while trying to cross into the U.S.
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Homeland Security says border arrests fall more than 40% since Biden's halt to asylum processing
The Homeland Security Department says arrests for illegal border crossings dropped more than 40% during the three weeks asylum processing has been suspended.
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‘Apply as soon as possible': Lawyer explains what the Biden administration's new immigration plan consists of
An immigration attorney breaks down how the Biden administration’s new immigration plan works and who will benefit the most.
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Federal judge to consider a partial end to special court oversight of child migrants
For 27 years, federal courts have held special oversight over custody conditions for child migrants. The Biden administration wants a judge to partially lift those powers. U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee is considering the request at a hearing in Los Angeles on Friday, barely a week before new safeguards take effect.
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For one Illinois congresswoman, President Biden's immigration action is personal
An Illinois congresswoman said the Biden administration’s latest immigration announcement reminded her why she ran for the legislature – to fight for immigration reform. NBC Chicago’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.
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Biden is offering some migrants a pathway to citizenship. Here's how the plan will work
A new Biden administration policy announced Tuesday will give roughly half a million immigrants who are married to American citizens but lack legal status in the United States a pathway to citizenship for them and their children.
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President Biden announces new immigration policies affecting some spouses, children
President Joe Biden unveiled new immigration policies on Tuesday, offering protection some spouses who are undocumented as well as undocumented children of U.S. citizens, NBC Chicago’s Mary Ann Ahern reports.
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Biden new immigration policy aims to not ‘tear families apart'
President Joe Biden announced a new streamlined process for certain spouses of U.S. citizens to seek permanent residents or citizenship. “There’s already a system in place for people we’re talking about today, but the process is cumbersome, risky and separates families … this action is a better way that doesn’t tear families apart,” the president said Tuesday.
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What is Biden's new policy for undocumented immigrants?
The action aims to shield undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens from deportation.
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Half a million immigrants could eventually get US citizenship under a sweeping new plan from Biden
President Joe Biden ordered an expansive election-year step Tuesday to offer potential citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants without legal status in the U.S., aiming to balance his recent aggressive crackdown on the southern border that enraged advocates and many Democratic lawmakers.
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Biden will announce deportation protection and work permits for spouses of US citizens
President Joe Biden is planning to announce a sweeping new policy that would lift the threat of deportation for tens of thousands of people married to U.S. citizens.
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How immigrants are helping keep job growth hot while inflation cools
Recent spikes in immigration at the southern border and elsewhere in the U.S. have helped to keep the labor pool full, even as job gains kept apace.
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DACA at 12 is on life support and already leaving out many young immigrants
Over a decade of Republican lawsuits to end the Obama-era program, which has halted new applications, has shut down the program to a generation of undocumented youth.
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US diplomat warns of great consequences for migrants at border who don't choose legal pathways
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar has warned that migrants who do not opt for a legal pathway into the United States will face consequences. The message Thursday comes at a time when the Biden administration needs Mexico’s cooperation in easing the flow of migrants to their shared border.
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White House preps ‘dreamers' celebration while President Biden eyes new benefits for immigrants
President Joe Biden will host a White House event next week celebrating an Obama-era directive that offered deportation protections for young undocumented immigrants. That comes as his own administration prepares potential new benefits for others without legal status but with long-standing ties in the United States.
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Immigrant rights groups sue Biden Administration over new asylum crackdown at the border
The order Biden issued last week would limit asylum processing once encounters with migrants between ports of entry reach 2,500 per day.
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8 suspected terrorists with possible ISIS ties arrested in New York, LA and Philadelphia, sources say
The men from Tajikistan came to the U.S. through the southern border and their criminal background checks came back clean at the time they crossed, officials familiar with the matter said.