American dreams come true: New citizens celebrate at ceremony on Battleship New Jersey
Dozens of new American citizens participated in a naturalization ceremony aboard the Battleship New Jersey on July 4 in Camden.
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Dozens of new American citizens participated in a naturalization ceremony aboard the Battleship New Jersey on July 4 in Camden.
The Biden administration's program will benefit unauthorized immigrants with American citizen spouses, if they have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years.
The program would offer work permits and deportation protections to unauthorized immigrants married to U.S. citizens, as long as they have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years, sources said.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement monitors more than a quarter-million migrants in the U.S. through smartphones, but ICE admits its latest technology faces challenges.
The immigrant rights organizations called on President Biden and both Pennsylvania senators to stop the pursuit of legislation they say restricts asylum eligibility, closes the border and further militarizes immigration enforcement.
Earlier this week, President Biden unveiled a new executive action authorizing U.S. immigration officials to deport large numbers of migrants without processing their asylum claims.
President Joe Biden addressed the economy, immigration and foreign wars in his State of the Union speech. Sen. Katie Britt provided the Republican response.
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump held dueling events in Texas near the U.S.-Mexico border. A record number of migrants were apprehended at the border last year.
Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden are looking to tackle some of the campaign's most pressing issues this week on the campaign trail: immigration and border security.
President Biden is weighing citing a law dating back to 1952 to severely restrict access to the U.S. asylum system, three people familiar with the plans told CBS News.
President Joe Biden is urging Congress to pass the bill, which would overhaul parts of the U.S. immigration system and provide wartime aid to Ukraine and Israel.
The White House and a bipartisan Senate group could soon strike a deal to enact stricter asylum and border laws.
Asylum seekers bound for New York City have been passing through New Jersey transit centers, officials say.
Hundreds of asylum seekers have been dropped off in Trenton and other New Jersey cities this week, the governor and local officials say. Most of the migrants have continued on trains to New York City.
New Jersey officials are tracking buses filled with asylum seekers arriving at various suburban transit centers who then quickly board trains and buses to New York City.
Buses carrying dozens of asylum seekers bound for New York City arrived at the Trenton Transit Center early Saturday morning.
Never before has U.S. Border Patrol processed that many migrants in one month, according to monthly tallies going back to fiscal year 2000.
U.S. Border Patrol agents processed more than 225,000 migrants in the first 27 days of December, a tally that eclipses the previous monthly record.
SB4 would allow Texas officials to arrest, jail and prosecute migrants on state criminal charges if they are suspected of entering the U.S. illegally.
Hundreds of migrants are being transported to multiple border towns to help with processing, then being released into those communities.
"They're poisoning the blood of our country," former President Trump said of undocumented migrants at a rally in Durham, New Hampshire.
Philadelphia City Council voted 14 to 1 to make it illegal for hospitals to send noncitizen patients to their home countries without their consent.
Philadelphia is on the road to becoming the first city in the U.S. to make medical deportations illegal, according to an immigrant advocacy group. City Council voted Wednesday to ban the practice of hospitals sending noncitizens out of the country without their consent.
Earlier this month, Texas repositioned the buoys closer to American soil after federal officials concluded that roughly 80% of the barriers were in Mexico.
The Biden administration rule penalizes migrants who don't request protection in another country before crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.
