Illegal Immigration News

The White House has put its weight behind two House bills to crack down on illegal immigration, a hallmark of President Donald Trump’s campaign. Issuing statements of administration policy Tuesday, the White House endorsed a bill known as Kate’s Law that would strengthen penalties on criminal illegal immigrants. The administration also said it backs a…

The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office launched a new unit Tuesday dedicated to representing illegal immigrants faced with deportation and focused on providing local tax money for cases heard in the city’s federal immigration courts. The special immigration division, one of only three such programs in the country, consists of three deputy public defenders and a…

Immigration arrests climbed yet again in April as federal agents continued to track down both criminal and noncriminal aliens in far greater numbers over the first 100 days of the Trump administration than they did under former President Barack Obama a year ago. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement and Removal Operations deportation officers administratively arrested…

President Donald Trump’s dedication to enforcing immigration law is one of his significant accomplishments as he nears his 100th day in office Saturday, experts and lawmakers say.  Trump is “taking the handcuffs off of [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and the Border Patrol because the immigration enforcement officers were prohibited from doing their job to a…

After years in private business, Kurt Ho had finally found a rewarding information technology job, working for a public hospital in Northern California, ensuring vital systems—such as fetal health monitors—were functioning properly. In October, Ho learned his job at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center was being outsourced to a company in India,…

Sweden, the latest European country to fall victim to a terrorist attack, has long been known for its generous immigration policies. In 2015, at the height of the refugee crisis, Sweden took in more migrants per capita than any other European country. That year, more than 162,000 people applied for asylum in Sweden, including 51,000…

A California-based labor union representing more than 11,000 health care workers declared itself a "sanctuary union" for its members and their relatives “at risk of deportation.” “As President Donald Trump was preparing to bar Syrian refugees and bolster his deportation force, the National Union of Healthcare Workers was convening members across California to discuss how best to…

The two teenagers accused of raping a ninth-grader at Maryland’s Rockville High School last month were among more than 150,000 unaccompanied minors who entered the U.S. illegally over the past three years, mostly from Central America. Like most other Central Americans who are under 18 years old and travel alone illegally to the U.S., the…

Parents and other residents of a Washington, D.C., suburb are struggling to come to terms with reports that a 14-year-old female student was raped in a boys’ bathroom during school hours by two male students who immigrated to this country illegally. Police arrested Henry E. Sanchez, 18, and Jose O. Montano, 17, on Friday, charging them with first-degree…

Last week, the Department of Homeland Security announced there was an “unprecedented decline” in illegal border crossings during President Donald Trump’s first month in office. >>>Find out when and where you can watch “Full Measure” Meanwhile, border hawks are trying to reverse another trend: the refusal by many countries to accept the deportation of their…

As President Donald Trump focuses on border security in his initial actions to counter illegal immigration, a new report shows the unauthorized population increasingly is made up of those who first entered the U.S. legally. In each year from 2007 to 2014, the report from the Center for Migration Studies finds, more people joined the…

Brianne Nadeau, a member of the Council of the District of Columbia, organized a meeting Thursday to help local illegal immigrants in the District of Columbia resist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. The meeting took place at the Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School auditorium and was filled with translators and illegal immigrants, as part…

President Donald Trump’s gesture for bipartisan immigration reform seemed to call for replacing the current legal immigration system that prioritizes family reunification with an economic merit-based system. “Those seeking to enter a country ought to be able to support themselves financially,” @POTUS says. If that’s the direction, then some pro-enforcement groups seem willing to listen….