Immigration

First responders in Eagle Pass, Texas, say they are traumatized by what they see at the U.S.-Mexico border: parents drowned or dying, their children barely holding onto life after attempting to cross the Rio Grande.

The White House is considering using provisions of federal immigration law repeatedly tapped by former President Donald Trump to unilaterally enact a sweeping crackdown at the southern border, according to three people familiar with the deliberations.

A recent decline in arrests for illegal crossings on the U.S. border with Mexico may prove only temporary.

The Biden administration is considering taking executive action to deter illegal migration across the southern border, two U.S. officials told NBC News.

Beginning April 1, the cost for some common immigration applications will rise with new adjustments.

This is the first group since January 2022 and was comprised of men, women and children mostly from inland and southern Honduras, where many farm workers lost their jobs due to the closure of some plantations.

Texas is refusing to comply with a cease-and-desist letter from the Biden administration over actions by the state that have impeded U.S. Border Patrol agents from accessing part of the border with Mexico.

About 261,000 cases of migrants placed in removal proceedings are pending in the Miami court — the largest docket in the country.

An estimated 8,000 people left southern Mexico in a caravan Christmas Eve with the hopes of reaching the U.S. border.

A new program that allows groups of U.S. citizens to name the specific refugees they would like to sponsor to come to America is giving a family in Texas hope of a reunification.

The number of immigrants to the U.S. jumped to the highest level in two decades this year, driving the nation’s overall population growth, according to estimates released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Children may still be separated but under limited circumstances, as was the case before a zero-tolerance Trump-era policy.

Children had been dispersed to shelters across the country that didn’t know who their parents were or how to find them.

Border security is a key component of a broader legislative deal that lawmakers are rushing to complete before the end of the year.

Biden’s administration said it plans to have “multiple” deportation flights a week to Venezuela, according to a U.S. Transportation Department waiver on travel restrictions.

The Biden administration and more than 4,000 migrants who were separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border by the Trump administration reached a legal settlement Monday that allows the families to live and work in the U.S. for three years while receiving housing, mental health and legal assistance to apply for asylum.

U.S. officials can continue to refuse asylum-seekers at border crossings with Mexico if they don’t have appointments on a mobile phone app.

Migrant transit centers financed by the United States have been set up in Guatemala to receive applications from Central American citizens seeking to apply for work visas, family reunifications or refugee status

Because of a procedural change in how the U.S. government processes some green cards, faith communities across the country may lose thousands of leaders and workers.

One of six men charged in Texas over 53 migrants who died last year in a sweltering tractor-trailer has pleaded guilty to smuggling-related charges.