Pres. Trump celebrates release of Cuban man from Miami from "Alligator Alcatraz"
In a Truth Social post Sunday night, Trump wrote "Welcome Home" to 54-year-old Justo Betancourt.
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In a Truth Social post Sunday night, Trump wrote "Welcome Home" to 54-year-old Justo Betancourt.
The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement Saturday saying recent green card policy changes restated "longstanding law and policy."
Gov. Ron DeSantis called it a "mistake" for the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to deny Florida's request to prevent California and Washington from issuing licenses to commercial truck drivers who are not in the country legally.
Luis Raul Gonzalez-Pardo Rodriguez was named in the Brothers to the Rescue shootdown indictment.
Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost traveled to the detention center in the Florida Everglades on Tuesday
ICE detainees are taking their own lives at a pace that's unprecedented in the agency's two-decade history, highlighting what experts call failures in care and oversight, an AP investigation finds.
The Trump administration on Friday announced a sweeping policy designed to make it harder for immigrants already in the U.S. to get permanent residency.
Under the proposal, the civil penalty would jump from $5,130 to $18,000 for immigrants who received an in absentia removal order, which means they were ordered deported because they did not appear before an immigration judge.
The additions come after the ouster of dozens of immigration judges across the country by the Trump administration over the past year.
Venezuela's government says it has deported a close ally of Nicolás Maduro to face judicial proceedings in the U.S. less than three years he was pardoned by President Joe Biden.
ICE has released the wife of an active-duty U.S. soldier after a month in detention, her husband told CBS News.
A CBS News review of internal government documents and information provided to Congress shows immigration detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay are nearly empty.
Several states have required their health agencies to take on another job: verifying immigration status among Medicaid recipients and reporting them to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
As the state awaits federal reimbursement for the project, one environmental organization suing to close the facility claims the state sought far more federal money than previously disclosed.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the department has no plan to shut down Alligator Alcatraz, following reports that companies hired by Florida to operate the detention center were told it would close.
Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin told CBS News that ICE arrests at the FIFA World Cup are not off the table, but the agency will not be at the global sporting event for the purpose of immigration arrests.
The closure comes amid escalating operating costs for the facility, which are now estimated to total nearly $1 billion.
New state records show the Florida Division of Emergency Management has now spent nearly $460 million from emergency preparedness funds on immigration enforcement-related costs over the past year.
Prosecutors are trying to strip former ambassador Victor Manuel Rocha of his U.S. citizenship after he admitted to secretly serving as a Cuban spy for decades.
More than 12,000 people gave up their asylum claims or voluntarily departed the U.S. as ICE moved to cut cases short by sending asylum-seekers to third countries, a CBS News analysis found.
State of Florida and federal officials are discussing the closure of the controversial "Alligator Alcatraz" immigration detention center, according to the New York Times.
An immigration attorney said this case reflects the limits facing immigrants with serious criminal convictions.
The acting attorney general is touting the administration's stepped-up denaturalization efforts.
Hundreds of foreign doctors about to complete training in the U.S. will have to leave the country if the federal government doesn't rapidly process their visa waiver applications, immigration attorneys say.
Cell phone video captured the emotional moment Gabriela Lozano walked out of the Baker County Detention Center in Jacksonville.
