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About 300 migrants wait at the El Chamizal Historical park in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in June to be received by United States authorities.

Biden administration to defend migration parole program at trial

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted August 23, 2023 at 5:00am
Migrants last month walk by a string of buoys placed on the water along the Rio Grande border with Mexico in Eagle Pass, Texas.

Judge to hear arguments over Texas buoy barrier on Rio Grande

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted August 21, 2023 at 5:00am
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies Wednesday during a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing.

Republicans tear into Mayorkas as impeachment efforts build

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted July 26, 2023 at 4:53pm
Migrants wait to be taken by Border Patrol to a processing facility to begin their asylum-seeking process last month in Eagle Pass, Texas.

Judge strikes down Biden administration asylum restrictions

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted July 25, 2023 at 3:08pm, Updated at 3:43pm
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., has four other Democrats and six Republicans co-sponsoring her bill to aid Afghan evacuees.

Congressional effort to help Afghans draws competing bills

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted July 20, 2023 at 4:07pm
From left, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Reps. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, and Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., conduct a news conference in June on legislation that would give immigration protections to undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children.

Cut off from DACA, new generation faces uncertain futures

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted July 12, 2023 at 1:33pm
Louisiana Republican Rep. Clay Higgins and California Democratic Rep. Lou Correa have teamed up on legislation to tackle cross-border human trafficking.

Bipartisan measure aims to thwart cross-border human trafficking

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted July 12, 2023 at 9:00am
The Supreme Court building.

Supreme Court revives Biden immigration enforcement policy

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted June 23, 2023 at 1:06pm
A local police officer speaks with asylum-seekers waiting for U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to allow them enter the country at the San Ysidro crossing port on the U.S.-Mexico border on May 31.

Decrease in border crossings hasn’t slowed Republican criticism

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted June 21, 2023 at 9:16am
House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark E. Green, R-Tenn., leaves the Capitol building in March.

House GOP releases border report critical of Homeland Security chief

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted June 14, 2023 at 11:35am
Joseph V. Cuffari, inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security, testifies Tuesday during a House hearing.

Democrats call for investigation into Homeland Security watchdog

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted June 12, 2023 at 2:12pm
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., speaks to reporters Wednesday in the Senate subway in the Capitol.

Senate stalled on latest ‘Dreamers’ proposal ahead of court hearing

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted May 31, 2023 at 6:33pm
Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, left, and Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar introduce “The Dignity Act” immigration bill at a news conference outside the Capitol on Tuesday.

Salazar, Escobar unveil comprehensive immigration bill

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted May 23, 2023 at 8:30am, Updated at 1:15pm
The Supreme Court building is seen on May 3.

Supreme Court brushes aside issue on border policy challenge

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted May 18, 2023 at 4:44pm
Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., sponsored the bill on police assaults that the House passed Wednesday.

House passes bill to deport immigrants who assault police

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted May 17, 2023 at 6:48pm
A U.S. Border Patrol agent (second to right) speaks to immigrants before they are transported from a makeshift camp amongst border walls, between the U.S. and Mexico, on Saturday, as seen from San Diego.

Homeland Security reports fewer encounters at US-Mexico border

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted May 15, 2023 at 4:31pm
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., conducts a vote Thursday on the Republican border security package.

House-passed border bill may spark bipartisan immigration talks

By Suzanne Monyak and Lindsey McPherson
Posted May 11, 2023 at 7:03pm
Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., was among the holdouts Wednesday on a sweeping GOP border security package.

House GOP makes last-minute tweaks to border security bill

By Lindsey McPherson and Suzanne Monyak
Posted May 10, 2023 at 8:08pm
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas speaks during a news conference Wednesday on planning and operations in advance of the cessation of the Title 42 public health order. Also pictured is acting Assistant Secretary of State Ricardo Zuniga.

Mayorkas blames Congress as US preps for ‘difficult’ weeks at border

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted May 10, 2023 at 2:07pm
Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s immigration panel, said Republicans would make a change to employment verification requirements.

Republicans agree to some changes to border bill for farmers

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted May 9, 2023 at 9:13pm
President Joe Biden speaks with the media at the White House last month.

Biden administration threatens veto on GOP border security bill

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted May 8, 2023 at 1:24pm
A Border Patrol agent leads migrants to a temporary processing tent on Thursday in Brownsville, Texas.

Nonprofits, lawmakers worry end of Title 42 will strain resources

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted May 8, 2023 at 5:00am
Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., and Thom Tillis, R-N.C.

Senators introduce bill to continue border expulsions post-Title 42

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted May 4, 2023 at 6:13pm
The Pentagon may soon send around 1,500 troops to the southern border.

Pentagon OKs request to send troops to border

By Mark Satter and Suzanne Monyak
Posted May 2, 2023 at 1:04pm
Sen. Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., is seen in the Capitol.

Senator to pitch nearly $1 billion plan to fight fentanyl trafficking

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted May 2, 2023 at 6:00am, Updated at 8:28am
Venezuelan migrants try to cross the border by foot from Mexico to the United States on Tuesday in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

US to expand migrant processing abroad after Title 42 policy ends

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted April 27, 2023 at 11:12am
Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., is seen outside a House Republican Steering Committee meeting earlier this year.

House Homeland Security panel debates another GOP border bill

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted April 26, 2023 at 12:06pm
House Homeland Security Chairman Mark E. Green, R-Tenn., is seen leaving the Capitol in March.

House Republican bill aims to restart border wall, improve tech

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted April 24, 2023 at 12:04pm
Supporters of Ukraine attend a Feb. 23 rally at the Lincoln Memorial to mark the one year anniversary of the Russian invasion.

Ukrainians in US anxious about protections as war rages on

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted April 21, 2023 at 5:00am
Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., who chairs the House Judiciary Committee’s immigration panel, speaks at a news conference.

Republican border package sparks debate at House Judiciary panel

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted April 19, 2023 at 8:33pm
Reps. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., left, and Tom McClintock, R-Calif., introduced the immigration bill.

House Republicans release sweeping immigration bill

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted April 17, 2023 at 2:27pm, Updated at 3:26pm
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland announces charges Friday against several leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, a transnational drug trafficking organization based in Sinaloa, Mexico.

US announces charges, sanctions in fight to stem fentanyl trafficking

By Ryan Tarinelli and Suzanne Monyak
Posted April 14, 2023 at 2:00pm
Democratic Reps. Emanuel Cleaver II of Missouri and Lou Correa of California.

House Democrats call for office to rethink unfair deportations

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 31, 2023 at 6:00am
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ur Jaddou delivers remarks during a naturalization ceremony for active duty members of the U.S. military at USCIS headquarters in 2021 in Maryland.

Immigration agency sets up new virtual service center

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 30, 2023 at 8:45am
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing Tuesday.

Republican senators grill DHS chief over border security

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 28, 2023 at 4:07pm
Migrants, mostly of Venezuelan origin, attempt to forcibly cross into the United States at the Paso del Norte International Bridge in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on March 12.

House Democrats urge Biden not to revive migrant family detention

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 28, 2023 at 11:01am
President Joe Biden participates in a bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, on Friday.

US moves to expand agreement with Canada on asylum-seekers

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 24, 2023 at 2:48pm
Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Rep. James R. Comer, chairman of the Oversight Committee, and Rep. Mark E. Green, chairman of the Homeland Security committee.

House GOP leaders question discipline for Border Patrol agents

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 24, 2023 at 2:03pm
Elysson D'Opim holds U.S. and Brazilian flags on the steps of the state house in Boston in June 2022, when the Massachusetts Senate overrode a veto on bill that would allow people without legal immigration status to get a driver's license.

With Congress stuck, some immigrant advocates go local

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 23, 2023 at 9:50am
Asylum-seekers line up to be processed by border agents at a gap in the U.S.-Mexico border fence near Somerton, Ariz., in December.

Border chief asks House panel to boost migrant processing

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 15, 2023 at 3:52pm
Rep. Jesús "Chuy" Garcia, D-Ill., speaks at a rally in 2021 in Washington.

House Democrats call to improve border appointment app

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 14, 2023 at 12:37pm, Updated at 4:15pm
Volunteers with signs welcome Ukrainian refugees as they arrive at the Tijuana, Mexico airport to help them on their journey to the United States after fleeing the war in Ukraine, in April 2022.

Certain Ukrainians eligible to extend their stays in the US

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 13, 2023 at 3:38pm
D.C. statehood activists in the Hands Off DC March & Rally begin their march from Union Station to the Capitol on Wednesday.

Senate votes to overturn DC criminal code changes

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 8, 2023 at 8:05pm
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas met with Latino Democratic senators last month.

Biden immigration discussions rile Hispanic Democratic lawmakers

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 8, 2023 at 8:48am
Demonstrators march in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program outside the Capitol in November.

Biden administration urges judge to allow latest ‘Dreamers’ rule

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 3, 2023 at 1:39pm
Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference at the Capitol Hill Club on Jan. 25.

Ethics panel formed to investigate Rep. George Santos

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 2, 2023 at 3:06pm, Updated at 4:18pm
The Supreme Court building in December 2022.

Biden push to end Title 42 border policy won’t end the legal fights

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted March 2, 2023 at 11:09am
Sen. Bob Menendez, left, described the meeting with DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as a “positive, constructive conversation about a wide range of issues in the immigration space that we feel that the administration should be considering.”

DHS chief Mayorkas talks immigration with Latino Senate Democrats

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted February 15, 2023 at 6:00am
A U.S. Border Patrol agent and a Mexican immigration officer coordinate Jan. 9 before U.S. agents expelled migrants from the United States to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

US credits new programs for January drop in border crossings

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted February 10, 2023 at 4:49pm
Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., conducts a news conference outside the Capitol on Feb. 1 to call for the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Homeland Security hires outside lawyers for potential impeachment

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted February 10, 2023 at 2:31pm
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., speaks during a news conference.

House passes resolutions to block DC voting, criminal code changes

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted February 9, 2023 at 1:28pm
The facade of the Supreme Court building.

US tells Supreme Court that health policy will change border case

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted February 8, 2023 at 9:20am
Chairman James R. Comer, R-Ky., and ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., prepare Tuesday for a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing on border security.

House oversight panel clashes at hearing on border security

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted February 7, 2023 at 4:43pm
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., conducts a news conference Wednesday outside the Capitol to call for the impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Also appearing from left, are, Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., Pat Fallon, R-Texas, Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., Brian Babin, R-Texas, and Bob Good, R-Va.

House GOP spotlights border security in hearing, resolution

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted February 1, 2023 at 5:59pm
Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., speaks during a news conference last year.

House pandemic bill raises debate about future of border restrictions

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted February 1, 2023 at 1:03pm
Entrance of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection headquarters.

Migrants grapple with government app to make asylum appointments

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted January 31, 2023 at 12:36pm
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., is seen in the Capitol in June.

Senators fight partisan headwinds in pursuit of immigration deal

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted January 26, 2023 at 5:49pm, Updated at 8:49pm
Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., speaks during a news conference Thursday outside the Capitol to call for the reversal of the Biden administration’s Title 42 expansion and proposed asylum transit ban. Also appearing from right, are Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas.

Democrats condemn Biden administration’s new asylum limits

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted January 26, 2023 at 12:55pm
Immigrant families from Venezuela arrive in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, after being expelled Jan. 9 from the United States.

US reports drop in migrants from countries in Biden initiative

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted January 25, 2023 at 6:29pm
Immigrants, most from Venezuela, are escorted by Mexican immigration agents after being expelled from the United States on Jan. 9 in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

GOP-led states challenge Biden’s new migration ‘parole’ program

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted January 24, 2023 at 5:27pm
Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, walks down the House steps after votes this month.

House border security bill bumped amid Republican concerns

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted January 23, 2023 at 7:34pm
Rep. James R. Comer, R-Ky., now chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, leaves a House GOP caucus meeting at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington last year.

House Republicans plan first hearing on Biden border policies

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted January 19, 2023 at 1:33pm
The State Department hopes to find at least 10,000 Americans willing to sponsor 5,000 refugees in the first year of the Welcome Corps program.

‘Welcome Corps’ to let Americans privately sponsor refugees in US

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted January 19, 2023 at 10:03am, Updated at 12:13pm
The Supreme Court building as seen in December.

GOP states urge Supreme Court to allow border policy defense

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted January 18, 2023 at 5:52pm
Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, walks in the Capitol on Monday.

House Republicans united on border policy focus

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted January 13, 2023 at 5:30am
“To make any progress at our southern border, he must go,” Rep. Pat Fallon, above, said of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Texas Republican moves to impeach Homeland Security chief

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted January 10, 2023 at 5:41pm
Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., leaves the Capitol.

Some Democrats criticize Biden outreach on border policy change

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted January 6, 2023 at 8:11pm
Venezuelan and Nicaraguan migrants are transferred by agents of the Border Patrol after crossing the Rio Grande river from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, to El Paso, Texas, to ask for political asylum on Dec. 27.

Biden announces policies to rein in border crossings

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted January 5, 2023 at 11:25am, Updated at 2:29pm
Asylum-seekers line up to be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents at a gap in the U.S.-Mexico border fence near Somerton, Ariz., on Monday.

Supreme Court keeps Title 42 border directive in place

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted December 27, 2022 at 5:12pm
Sen. Jon Tester of Montana, shown on Dec. 13 in the Capitol, joined Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona on a Title 42 amendment to the fiscal 2023 spending bill.

Senate immigration showdown ends with Title 42 stalemate

By Caroline Coudriet and Suzanne Monyak
Posted December 22, 2022 at 2:44pm
The Supreme Court on Monday paused a lower court order striking down the Title 42 border policy.

US urges Supreme Court to let Title 42 border policy end

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted December 20, 2022 at 6:33pm
Mexican migration authorities guard one of the sides of the Tijuana River at the U.S.-Mexico border seen from Tijuana, Mexico, on Monday.

Supreme Court keeps Title 42 border policy in place for now

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted December 19, 2022 at 5:40pm
Migrants walk across the Rio Grande to surrender to U.S. Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas, as seen from Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on Tuesday.

Judge halts Biden administration bid to lift ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted December 16, 2022 at 1:18pm
Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, who recently announced she was switching her registration from Democrat to independent, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C.

Immigration deal for ‘Dreamers’ appears to run out of time

By Caroline Coudriet and Suzanne Monyak
Posted December 15, 2022 at 5:52pm
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., in the Capitol in November.

Democrat pushes to reverse decision to pull immigration bill

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted December 15, 2022 at 3:55pm
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., at a hearing in May.

Sen. Bennet unveils bill to revise agricultural visa system

By Suzanne Monyak and Ellyn Ferguson
Posted December 15, 2022 at 9:30am, Updated at 12:56pm
Hundreds of migrants who left shelters in Juarez yesterday and crossed the Rio Grande to request political asylum wait to cross the border on the banks of the Rio Grande that divides Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, Texas, on Monday.

GOP states ask appeals court to preserve Title 42 border policy

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted December 13, 2022 at 4:20pm
A city worker works outside a migrant shelter on December 3 in Reynosa, Mexico. Thousands of immigrants are waiting on the Mexican side of the border to see if the Title 42 directive, a U.S. public health order used to expel migrants seeking asylum, is lifted on December 21, as ordered by a federal judge. U.S. border officials predict a migrant surge at the border if the pandemic-era regulation is lifted.

US to appeal ruling that struck down pandemic-era border policy

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted December 7, 2022 at 7:18pm
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., at a hearing in March.

Time running short for latest immigration proposal in Senate

By Caroline Coudriet and Suzanne Monyak
Posted December 7, 2022 at 6:04pm
The Supreme Court building is seen at dusk.

Supreme Court weighs funding in immigration enforcement case

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted November 29, 2022 at 4:08pm
The Supreme Court building is seen in October.

Supreme Court to hear arguments over Biden immigration priorities

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted November 28, 2022 at 10:50am
A border patrol agent talks this month to a group of migrants, mostly from African countries, before processing them after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border, taken from Tijuana, Mexico.

GOP-led states ask to defend border policy in Washington case

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted November 22, 2022 at 11:34am
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy speaks to the media with congressional candidates Monica De La Cruz, Mayra Flores and Cassy Garcia in McAllen, Texas, on Nov. 6.

GOP fell short in Latino-heavy areas along U.S-Mexico border

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted November 17, 2022 at 11:26am
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference Wednesday about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program outside the Capitol, alongside Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev.

Democrats call protections for ‘Dreamers’ a lame-duck priority

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted November 16, 2022 at 3:58pm
Immigration activists demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court in Washington in April, when the justices heard oral arguments about another Trump-era border policy.

Court throws out pandemic-era border expulsion policy

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted November 15, 2022 at 6:51pm, Updated at 7:59pm
Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters speaks during his town hall event at Miss Kitty’s Steak House in July.

GOP candidates focus on border security amid high migration

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted November 2, 2022 at 4:55pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi conducts a bill enrollment ceremony for the CHIPS and Science Act on the West Front of the Capitol in July.

Big Tech cites national security in push for immigration changes

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted October 31, 2022 at 5:00am
Rep. Jamie Raskin questions a witness during a June hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, which issued a 94-page report Monday.

Top CDC official says Title 42 border policy ‘came from outside’

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted October 17, 2022 at 4:34pm
Stranded migrants, mostly from Venezuela, get on a boat in the Colombian port town of Necocli on Oct. 11 to cross into neighboring Panama and continue their journey toward the United States.

Venezuelan initiative restricts asylum, immigrant advocates say

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted October 13, 2022 at 5:35pm
Activists listen during a news conference marking the 10th anniversary of the passing of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, in June.

Latest ‘Dreamers’ court ruling prompts calls for Senate to act

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted October 6, 2022 at 6:26pm
Afghan refugees arrive at Dulles International Airport in August 2021, after leaving Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban. The official tally of refugees who entered the country last fiscal year does not include those from Afghanistan or Ukraine.

United States fell far short of refugee goal last fiscal year

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted October 6, 2022 at 1:13pm
Students with the group Improve the Dream listen in May as Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and other lawmakers hold a news conference calling for bipartisan legislation to protect "Dreamers."

Appeals court rules against program that protects ‘Dreamers’

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted October 5, 2022 at 6:11pm, Updated at 7:54pm
Sen. Christopher S. Murphy says local programs to help migrants “are going to shut down, they’re going to run out of money.”

Border politics threaten push to boost spending on migrant aid

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted September 22, 2022 at 1:12pm
Folders with immigrants' applications for permanent U.S. residency sit stacked in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Dallas Field Office in 2016.

Record pace for green cards won’t last without congressional action

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted September 22, 2022 at 5:00am
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security in May 4.

Biden administration finalizes end of Trump-era ‘public charge’ rule

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted September 8, 2022 at 11:51am
U.S. Army veteran Juan Quiroz crosses the San Ysidro Port of Entry at San Diego, Calif., in July, nine years after he was deported.

Deported veterans who returned to US face uncertain futures

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted September 8, 2022 at 5:30am
President Joe Biden speaks about the soul of the nation Thursday at Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia.

Biden asks Americans to defend democracy in elections, politics

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted September 1, 2022 at 8:44pm
Sens. Amy Klobuchar, left, and Lisa Murkowski wrote a letter to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services about the status of work permits for Ukrainian refugees.

Klobuchar, Murkowski raise concerns over work permit delays

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted September 1, 2022 at 5:00am
A participant holds an American flag during a naturalization ceremony held for the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services annual Independence Day celebration at a library in New York City on July 1.

Asylum-seekers face delays on recent work permit applications

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted August 10, 2022 at 3:55pm
A group of migrants are processed by Texas law enforcement after crossing into Eagle Pass, Texas, in July.

DHS to phase out ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy after court action

By Suzanne Monyak
Posted August 9, 2022 at 11:21am