Senate Republicans seek drastic asylum limits in funding package
Republicans have insisted that the Biden administration must agree to border policy changes to garner GOP support for an emergency funding request.
Immigration
Trump eyes radical immigration shift if elected in 2024
Former President Donald Trump says he will oversee mass deportations, end birthright citizenship and deny entry to immigrants based on their ideological beliefs if elected president.
Judge blocks border officials from removing Texas' razor wire
Border Patrol agents have said they've cut the razor wire assembled by Texas because they need to process migrants once they reach U.S. soil.
Biden officials shelve plan to require some migrants to remain in Texas
Officials in El Paso rejected a Biden administration plan that would have kept some migrant families under curfew in that Texas border city.
Biden to host immigration summit with 11 countries
The Americas Summit is set to be held Nov. 3 in Washington and hosted by the president, who has invited leaders of western hemisphere countries to attend.
U.S. to create new immigration program for Ecuadorians
The initiative is the latest Biden administration attempt to reduce illegal border crossings by offering migrants pathways to enter the U.S. legally.
GOP presidential candidates reject admitting Palestinian refugees
Republicans candidates for president have sought to link the Israel-Hamas conflict to broader concerns about immigration and terrorism among voters in the U.S.
U.S. to settle lawsuit with migrant families separated under Trump
The agreement will offer social and legal benefits to separated migrant families, and limit when officials can separate children from their parents.
U.S. reopening facility near border to house unaccompanied migrant kids
The number of unaccompanied children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border began to increase sharply this summer.
Are terrorists trying to cross the U.S. southern border? Here are the facts.
Concerns about whether known or suspected terrorists are exploiting the migration crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border have intensified following the brutal terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas.
Colombian official: Migrant influx in Darién jungle is "unsustainable"
U.S. officials have been frustrated by what they see as Colombia's unwillingness to take aggressive actions to stem the flow of migration into the Darién jungle.
Mayorkas denies Biden administration has changed policy on border walls
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas explained that he waived over two dozen federal laws to expedite the construction of border walls because the administration was bound by law to do so.
Biden administration clears way for border wall construction in Texas
With the number of border crossings soaring, the administration seemed to reverse its stand on such construction and turned to a Trump-era funding technique.
U.S. to restart deportations to Venezuela to reduce border arrivals
The shift in policy is designed to slow down an unprecedented flow of U.S.-bound migration from crisis-stricken Venezuela.
Record number of Venezuelans crossed U.S. border in September
Approximately 50,000 migrants from crisis-stricken Venezuela crossed the U.S.-Mexico border unlawfully last month, a monthly record.
Illinois governor calls migrant influx "untenable," calls on Biden to do more
"The federal government's lack of intervention and coordination at the border has created an untenable situation for Illinois," Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker wrote.
Unlawful crossings along southern U.S. border reach yearly high
For only the second time in U.S. history, migrant apprehensions along the southern border surpassed 2 million in a single fiscal year, federal data obtained by CBS News shows.
U.S. aims to resettle up to 50,000 Latin American refugees in 2024
The U.S. will keep the refugee cap unchanged at 125,000, while more than doubling the allocation for refugees from the Western Hemisphere.
Historic Venezuelan refugee crisis tests U.S. border policies
More than 7 million Venezuelans have fled their homeland's economic collapse in recent years — and many of them are heading to the U.S.
Could an "integration program" in Mexico ease the U.S. border crisis?
The U.N. refugee chief tells CBS News a small pilot program in Mexico is helping settle migrants and refugees into new lives before they reach the U.S. border.
Bodies of 2 migrants, including 3-year-old boy, found in Rio Grande
U.S. Border Patrol agents have reported record levels of both migrant deaths and crossings in recent years.
Border crossings soar to near-record levels, testing Biden strategy
U.S. border agents apprehended roughly 140,000 migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border during the first 20 days of September, an average of roughly 6,900 each day.
U.S. offers thousands of Venezuelan migrants legal status, work permits
The Biden administration will make hundreds of thousands of migrants from Venezuela eligible for work permits and deportation protections under an expansion of the Temporary Protected Status policy.
Migrant children being separated from parents to avoid overcrowding, report finds
An independent court monitor said migrant children as young as 8 were separated from their parents for several days to avoid overcrowding in a Texas holding facility.
Polls: Latinos want Biden to take more immigration actions
A majority of Latino voters in key states want President Biden to take further actions to both grant legal status to undocumented immigrants and secure the border.
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