U.S. reopens immigration program for Central American children

U.S. officials have portrayed the program as a safe and legal alternative to the often dangerous trek migrant children undertake to reach the southern border.

• Sep 13, 2021

Democrats present case to legalize immigrants through budget bill

The legalization plan would benefit undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, farmworkers, Temporary Protected Status holders and essential workers.

• Sep 10, 2021

Biden administration reviving Trump's "Remain in Mexico" border policy

"It's frustrating to continue waiting here after all this time and suffering," one asylum-seeker stranded in Mexico with her 9-month-old baby told CBS News.

• Sep 9, 2021

U.S. caring for more than 100 unaccompanied Afghan children

While the vast majority of Afghan evacuees arriving in the U.S. this summer have been families and adults, some evacuated children have been entering the country without their parents.

• Sep 8, 2021

U.S. effort to resettle Afghan refugees faces major hurdles

The resettlement operation is grappling with issues ranging from the uncertain immigration status of many evacuees, to limited social resources and permanent housing for the new arrivals.

• Sep 2, 2021

An Iowa town goes to battle for Afghan immigrant

As an interpreter serving in Afghanistan, Zalmay Niazy became a target of the Taliban, and applied for asylum in the U.S., where he'd settled among the Iowa cornfields. But when his application was turned down, the townspeople of Iowa Falls fought back.

• Aug 29, 2021

Some Afghan refugee children are arriving in the U.S. unaccompanied

U.S. immigration officials have designated at least 34 Afghan children as unaccompanied minors, sending some of them to government shelters for undocumented migrant youth.

• Aug 27, 2021

SCOTUS rules Biden must revive Trump-era Remain-in-Mexico policy

Under the Trump-era program, the U.S. returned 70,000 non-Mexican asylum-seekers to Mexico, instructing them to wait there for their court hearings.

• Aug 25, 2021

U.S. using humanitarian tool to admit at-risk Afghans without visas

The move will allow the U.S. government to authorize the entry of certain vulnerable Afghans, including those who helped American forces but whose visa applications remain pending.

• Aug 24, 2021

Migrants stuck in Mexico faced 6,356 violent attacks, report finds

Human rights researchers tracked 6,356 attacks against migrants who were expelled to Mexico by the U.S. or barred from requesting U.S. refuge.

• Aug 24, 2021

How are Afghan refugees being processed by the U.S.?

Providing refuge to Afghans who assisted the American war effort is a rare immigration policy with broad public support, including among Republicans, according to CBS News polling.

• Aug 24, 2021

Supreme Court pauses revival of Remain-in-Mexico border policy

The Trump-era program required 70,000 non-Mexican asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for their U.S. asylum court hearings.

• Aug 20, 2021

Her family is stranded in Afghanistan amid evacuation scramble

Freshta, a college student in Michigan, fears her Hazara family in Afghanistan could be harmed by the Taliban because of their assistance to the U.S. war effort.

• Aug 20, 2021

Judge blocks U.S. effort to curtail ICE arrests and deportations

The Biden administration rules instructed ICE agents to focus on arresting recent border-crossers, as well as immigrants deemed to threaten public safety or national security.

• Aug 19, 2021

U.S. moves to speed up asylum process along southern border

Biden administration officials said the policy overhaul would allow the government to more quickly grant U.S. refuge to those who qualify and deport those who don't.

• Aug 18, 2021

Population drop in rural areas spotlights farm worker shortage

Vilifying immigrants "just makes it harder to get there," says Nebraska Farmers Union on push for new immigration laws.

• Aug 16, 2021

Judge orders U.S. to reinstate "Remain in Mexico" asylum policy

The Trump-era policy required 70,000 non-Mexican asylum applicants to wait for their U.S. court hearings in Mexico, often in squalid tent camps and dangerous border towns.

• Aug 14, 2021

ICE ramps up vaccination of detainees, but many have refused

In the past six weeks, ICE has reported over 5,000 new coronavirus cases among immigrants in its detention facilities.

• Aug 13, 2021

U.S. defends border policy as migrant arrests reach 21-year high

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned would-be migrants that "they will be turned back" unless they qualify for U.S. humanitarian protection.

• Aug 13, 2021

Texas communities and border agents scramble to shelter migrants

Communities along the U.S.-Mexico border are scrambling to house a growing number of migrants seeking legal asylum.

• Aug 12, 2021

ICE deportation agents ordered not to detain crime victims

By minimizing the "chilling effect" of potential deportation, the policy change can encourage undocumented immigrants to contact law enforcement, ICE argued.

• Aug 11, 2021

U.S. sued over poor conditions at emergency sites for migrant teens

"My anxiety attacks have been abnormal here — they have gotten worse since I arrived," a 16-year-old migrant girl from El Salvador said in a court declaration.

• Aug 10, 2021

U.S. increases border deportations, prosecutions amid migrant surge

The efforts mark a new, more stringent chapter in the Biden administration's border policy.

• Aug 10, 2021

Texas shelters for migrant kids to operate without state oversight

After August 30, 36 Texas-based shelters housing migrant children in federal care will no longer be regulated or inspected by state officials.

• Aug 6, 2021

U.S. expands citizenship eligibility for certain children born abroad

Children born abroad to couples who used assisted reproductive technology, like surrogacy, will now qualify for U.S. citizenship, even if the U.S. parent is not biologically related to them.

• Aug 5, 2021

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