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News Articles: Immigration

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, leads his panel's first meeting in the new Republican majority — a hearing Wednesday titled, "The Biden Border Crisis — Part I."

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  • Politics

In first GOP-led hearing about the border, witnesses paint sharply different pictures

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee blamed Biden administration policies for the record number of migrant apprehensions. Democrats accused them of fear-mongering and spreading misinformation.

February 02, 2023
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By:
  • Joel Rose
Tyre Nichols

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Congress under pressure to pass police reform act; Southern Democrats push for DNC

Tuesday on Political Rewind: More voices are calling for Congress to pass a bill that would address police misconduct. The bill passed the U.S. House in 2021 but was never taken up by the Senate. Plus, Southern Democrats urge President Biden and the Democratic National Committee to hold their convention in Atlanta.

 

January 31, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
Alight Guides meeting refugees at Przemysl, Poland train station. Alight Guides work in the US and around the world to support both refugees as well as US sponsor groups through the entire journey.

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  • Politics

Biden administration invites ordinary citizens to help resettle refugees

The Biden administration is encouraging ordinary U.S. citizens to help resettle refugees, via the newly launched sponsorship program Welcome Corps in partnership with non-profit organizations.

January 24, 2023
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By:
  • Olivia Hampton
The State Department seal is seen on the briefing room lectern at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 31, 2022.

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  • National

A new program lets private citizens sponsor refugees in the U.S.

The State Department program, dubbed the Welcome Corps, would give Americans a role in resettling thousands of refugees who arrive every year.

January 19, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
President Biden speaks with U.S. Customs and Border Protection police at the Bridge of the Americas border crossing between Mexico and the U.S. in El Paso, Texas, on Sunday.

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  • Politics

Biden makes his first visit to the southern border as president

The Biden administration recently expanded a pandemic-era program that quickly expels migrants who illegally cross into the country from Mexico.

January 08, 2023
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By:
  • Giulia Heyward
President Biden speaks to reporters before boarding Air Force One in Kentucky on Wednesday. Biden told reporters he plans to visit the southern U.S. border next week.

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  • Politics

Biden announces new border control measures and legal pathways to some migrants

The White House is expanding a pandemic-era program allowing the administration to quickly expel people from Nicaragua, Cuba and Haiti who illegally cross into the country from Mexico.

January 05, 2023
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez and
  • Tamara Keith

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Kemp won't support early Democratic primary; McCarthy fight to be speaker endures

Thursday on Political Rewind: Gov. Brian Kemp says he won't support the move by national Democrats to move Georgia's primary earlier. After two days of failed votes, Rep. Kevin McCarthy continues his bid for House Speaker.

January 05, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
An asylum-seeking migrant woman from Peru in a wheelchair is escorted through the border wall to be processed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States in El Paso, Texas, on Dec. 21.

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  • National

The future of migrants in El Paso remains uncertain as border restrictions continue

Migrants have traveled hundreds, if not thousands, of miles to the Mexican border in a search of a better life. Many are turning themselves over to U.S. border authorities and seeking asylum.

December 31, 2022
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By:
  • Jim Urquhart
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich speaks at a news conference in Phoenix, on Jan. 7, 2020.

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  • Politics

Arizona's AG says dropping Title 42 would cause border 'chaos'

Mark Brnovich led the fight to keep Title 42 in place. He explains to NPR why he and other state AGs want to keep it in effect until the surge of migrants at the southern border is under control.

December 30, 2022
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By:
  • John Helton
Farm laborers working with an H-2A visa harvest romaine lettuce on a machine with heavy plastic dividers that separate workers from each other on April 27, 2020, in Greenfield, Calif.

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  • Politics

Farmworkers brace for more time in the shadows after latest effort fails in Congress

A legalization path for farmworkers failed to pass this month and faces an even steeper climb in a Republican-controlled House in the next Congress.

December 28, 2022
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Two busloads of migrants were also sent to U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris's home in September.

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  • National

Busloads of migrants dropped off near Kamala Harris's home on Christmas Eve

It appears to be the latest action in an escalating battle between some state governors, and the federal government, over immigration policy.

December 26, 2022
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By:
  • Giulia Heyward
A long row of double-stacked shipping containers provide a new wall between the United States and Mexico in the remote section of San Rafael Valley, Ariz., on Dec. 8, 2022.

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  • National

The U.S. is suing Arizona over shipping containers on the border with Mexico

The U.S. government sued Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and the state Wednesday over the placement of shipping containers as a barrier on the border with Mexico, saying it is trespassing on federal lands.

December 15, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A federal appeals court Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022, ordered a lower court review of Biden administration revisions to DACA, a program preventing the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought into the United States as children. The ruling, for now, leaves the future of DACA up in the air.

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  • National

An appeals court rules against DACA, but the program continues — for now

The Fifth Circuit said a federal district judge in Texas should take another look at the program following the revisions adopted by the Biden administration, leaving the future of DACA up in the air.

October 05, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Afghan Special Immigrant Visa applicants crowd into the Herat Kabul Internet cafe, seeking help applying for the SIV program on Aug. 8, 2021, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban took over Afghanistan a week later. More than 74,000 applicants remain in the backlog of the SIV program, designed to help those who served the U.S. overseas.

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  • World

Since the Taliban takeover, Afghans hoping to leave Afghanistan have few ways out

A year after the U.S. withdrawal, tens of thousands of applicants remain stuck in the backlog of the Special Immigrant Visa program, designed to help those who served the U.S. overseas.

October 03, 2022
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By:
  • D. Parvaz
Migrants waiting to be picked up by the U.S. Border Patrol under an international bridge in Eagle Pass, Texas, earlier this month.

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  • National

Migrant deaths at the U.S.-Mexico border hit a record high, in part due to drownings

This has been the deadliest year ever for migrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Hundreds have drowned in the Rio Grande or perished from extreme heat in failed smuggling attempts.

September 29, 2022
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By:
  • Joel Rose and
  • Marisa Peñaloza
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