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.

• Oct 17, 2023

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.

• Oct 16, 2023

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.

• Oct 13, 2023

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.

• Oct 11, 2023

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.

• Oct 6, 2023

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.

• Oct 6, 2023

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.

• Oct 5, 2023

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.

• Oct 5, 2023

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.

• Oct 4, 2023

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.

• Oct 3, 2023

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.

• Oct 1, 2023

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.

• Sep 27, 2023

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.

• Sep 26, 2023

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.

• Sep 26, 2023

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.

• Sep 21, 2023

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.

• Sep 21, 2023

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.

• Sep 20, 2023

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.

• Sep 16, 2023

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.

• Sep 15, 2023

Federal judge again declares DACA immigration policy unlawful

While he declared the program unlawful, Judge Andrew Hanen allowed 580,000 DACA recipients to continue working and living legally in the U.S.

• Sep 13, 2023

U.S. reopens troubled facility for migrant children in Texas

In response to an increase in border crossings by unaccompanied minors, the Biden administration is housing migrant children in a former work camp, for a second time.

• Sep 13, 2023

Migrant toddler on bus from Texas died of pneumonia, intestinal disease

Jismary Alejandra Barboza González died on a bus from Texas to Chicago in August.

• Sep 7, 2023

Judge orders Texas to remove floating border barriers, siding with Biden

Earlier this month, Texas repositioned the buoys closer to American soil after federal officials concluded that roughly 80% of the barriers were in Mexico.

• Sep 6, 2023

U.S. reminds migrants to apply for work permits

The Biden administration is sending emails and texts to tens of thousands of migrants to remind them that they are eligible to apply for work permits.

• Aug 31, 2023

Family deportation program off to slow start as border arrivals rise

The U.S. has carried out fewer than 100 deportations under a program the Biden administration set up in May to deter unlawful border entries by migrant families.

• Aug 31, 2023

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