Detention Centers Fill Up; Border Detainees Sent To Prisons
More than 1,600 people arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border, including parents who have been separated from their children, are being transferred to federal prisons.
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More than 1,600 people arrested at the U.S.-Mexico border, including parents who have been separated from their children, are being transferred to federal prisons.
Lines at border crossings in Texas, California and Arizona are so busy with asylum seekers that some have to wait days, even weeks, to present themselves to U.S. border inspectors.
Civil rights lawyers have sued the U.S. Commerce Department to stop plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
A girl from El Paso donned her cap and gown to walk across the U.S. border into Mexico and visit her deported father before graduating from high school.
A U.S. senator said Monday he tried to enter a federal facility in Texas where immigrant children are being held, but police were called and he was told to leave.
The unit investigates and prosecutes cases related to narcotics, weapons, human trafficking, organized crime, gangs and other border-related crimes.
President Donald Trump and Democratic critics traded accusations about immigration as the debate over "lost" children and the practice of separating families caught crossing the border illegally reached a new boiling point.
The Health and Human Services Department is considering housing children picked up crossing the U.S. border illegally -- either alone or after being separated from their parents by the government -- at military bases.
The Trump administration will try to convince an appeals court that it was justified in ending an immigration policy that shielded hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation.
A lawsuit filed last week in Texas seeks to shut down the DACA program and may create a legal clash that could speed the issue's path to the Supreme Court.
The spotlight on a group of Central American asylum seekers has raised public awareness of the toll of violence in that country, but the group that organized the caravan fears it may also sharpen a crackdown by the U.S. government.
The caravan of Central Americans seeking asylum in the United States have arrived at the border, but the next steps in their journey will unfold mostly out of public view.
Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading a seven-state coalition suing the federal government over the DACA program.
Immigrants say that President Trump's administration has become almost everything that they had feared. They will rally across the United States on May Day.
U.S. border inspectors allowed some of the Central American asylum seekers to enter the country for processing, ending a brief impasse over lack of space.
After traveling through Mexico with great fanfare for a month, nearly 200 Central American migrants attempting to seek asylum in the United States were stopped in their tracks.
About 170 migrants in a caravan of Central American asylum-seekers have arrived in Tijuana, joining nearly 200 others on their final stop before entering the United States.
About 130 Central Americans, mostly women and children, have arrived at the U.S. border with Mexico in a "caravan" of asylum-seeking immigrants that has drawn the fury of President Donald Trump.
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration must resume a program that has shielded hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation.
California reached an agreement with the federal government that the state's National Guard troops will deploy to the border to focus on fighting transnational gangs as well as drug and gun smugglers.
A state official said nothing was decided.
Immigrant advocates are outraged by a U.S. government decision to put on hold a program that helps tens of thousands of immigrants navigate the country's complex immigration court system.
California Gov. Jerry Brown accepted President Donald Trump's call to send the National Guard to the Mexican border, but rejected the White House's portrait of a burgeoning border crisis.
The deployment of National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border at President Donald Trump's request is underway with a gradual ramp-up of troops under orders to help curb illegal immigration.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans to bring his firm stance on immigration enforcement to New Mexico where a group of Southwest border sheriffs are meeting Wednesday.
