Immigration

washington —  A federal judge has ruled again that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is illegal. The policy protected from deportation hundreds of thousands of…

Houston —  A federal judge on Wednesday declared illegal a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the…

Miami —  A Mexican citizen taken into custody for allegedly driving without U.S. papers and transporting undocumented people was one of the first people to be arrested under…

NEW ORLEANS —  A federal appeals court on Thursday allowed Texas' floating barrier on a section of the Rio Grande to stay in place for now, a day after a judge called the buoys a…

WASHINGTON —  A U.S. judge ordered Texas to move floating buoys that were placed in the middle of the Rio Grande to block migrants from illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border,…

Tijuana, Mexico —  As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away. The…

ORGAN PIPE CACTUS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. —  Border Patrol agents ordered the young Senegalese men to wait in the scant shade of desert scrub brush while they loaded a more…

Editor's note: Here is a look at immigration-related news around the U.S. this week. Questions? Tips? Comments? Email the VOA immigration team: [email protected]. TPS…

washington —  More than 840,000 Afghans who applied for a resettlement program aimed at people who helped the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan are still there waiting, according to…

Nearly 60,000 asylum-seekers are in New York City’s care. Some of them have no choice but to sleep outside, and some residents don’t want them. Nina Vishneva has the story,…