The agency is planning to move funds for refugees and HIV/AIDS patients to cover the possible costs.

The agency is planning to move funds for refugees and HIV/AIDS patients to cover the possible costs.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen went before reporters at the White House to defend the controversial practice, as more Republicans joined Democrats in criticizing the administration.

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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen's proposal will also include more money for detention beds and the ability to hold families in detention longer than currently permitted.

Woman says immigration officials removed little girl at border despite documents proving her to be legal guardian

The head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Tuesday he is powerless to reunite migrant children with their parents unless Congress changes the laws regarding detention time

“The unfortunate reality is that under the present system migrant children are not accounted for with the same efficiency and accuracy as property.”

The suit alleges that President Donald Trump's stated reasons for ending Temporary Protected Status are a "smokescreen" for a racist immigration agenda.

The move temporarily halts the administration’s plan to force the beneficiaries to find another immigration status or face deportation.

Most of the workers said they bought fake immigration documents after entering the U.S. and the Trump Organization did not closely examine them.

President Trump's in-laws gained citizenship Thursday through a program he doesn't want other immigrants to benefit from.

As the fight to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) gains ground, 19 high-profile ICE agents and leaders have signed a letter asking Homeland Security head Kirstjen Nielsen to...

Families separated, jobs lost and towns in turmoil: How a quiet corner of Tennessee was turned upside down by Trump’s immigration forces

The Pentagon ‘is participating in a scheme that appropriates the concept of military honor to perpetrate a human rights abuse,’ one decorated veteran tells The Daily Beast.

Separating migrant kids from their parents will cost the administration more than placing them in permanent structures or keeping them with their parents.

Trump’s executive order is as much of a pipe dream as his border wall -- unless Congress wants to pay for it.

And the company used government resources to do even that, concludes Homeland Security's inspector general.

The document was made public Tuesday on “The Rachel Maddow Show” by Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, among the fiercest critics of President Trump's zero-tolerance immigration policy.

As a potentially catastrophic hurricane bears down on the East Coast of the US, the shifting of $10 million from FEMA's operating budget to fund immigration detention and deportations is drawing...

A draft report by the Department of Health and Human Services contradicts a central argument made by advocates of deep cuts in refugees.

On at least eight occasions in 12 days, Trump has mentioned women with "tape put across their mouths." Human-trafficking experts are perplexed.

The judge said he was "embarrassed" to ask if the boy understood the proceedings.

PHOENIX (AP) — The 1-year-old boy in a green button-up shirt drank milk from a bottle, played with a small purple ball that lit up when it hit the ground and occasionally asked for "agua." Then it...

Wilder Hilario Maldonado Cabrera was the youngest defendant on the juvenile docket that day, and he was one of the last children left in government custody who had been affected by the zero-tolerance...

Federal officials say Legal Orientation Program will be paused to assess whether it is cost-effective.

Back in April, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, both under the Department of Homeland Security, entered into a memorandum of agreement with an obscure government

Defenders of President Donald Trump’s aggressive approach to illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings say the country faces a binary choice: hold offenders in detention centers while their cases are...

President Donald Trump has astonished legal scholars with his claim that he can end birthright citizenship with a swipe of his pen. No, they say, he can't.

"ICE is required to meet basic standards of care for minor noncitizens in its custody," a letter from three major immigration advocacy groups states. "It repeatedly has demonstrated an inability to...

Documents reveal that the immigration enforcement agency has been keenly attuned to left-leaning protests in the city. 

Several people on the list told NBC News they were questioned at the border as part of what U.S. border agents called a "national security investigation."

"It starts to smack of dictatorship or the persecution of actors and press during the Red Scare," a senior ICE official not involved in the matter told BuzzFeed News.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices handle everything from immigration applications to fraud detection.

New plan would shutter U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services offices worldwide that handle emergencies, adoption petitions and citizenship applications from U.S. military families.

The administration has hobbled the infrastructure designed to prevent atrocities like Pittsburgh.

Is the administration trying to thwart efforts to combat white supremacy?

The FBI has arrested a member of an armed militia that had detained hundreds of migrants at the border this week, the New Mexico attorney general's office said Saturday.

While the body counts from domestic terror attacks mount, the analysts looking into those attacks have been moved.

The president said in an interview that Mexico has “totally lost control of the cartels.”

A bombshell Guardian report details the mess.

The United States has revoked the entry visa of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, her office said on Thursday, a response to her inquiry into possible war crimes by...

President Donald Trump told Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan he would grant McAleenan a pardon if he were sent to jail for having border agents block asylum seekers from...

The political retribution was proposed in November and again in February, but immigration authorities rejected the idea as inappropriate, rebuffing the White House.

An elaborate attempt to troll liberal politicians seems to have hit a snag.

An aging population and a declining birthrate among the native-born population mean a shrinking work force in many areas.

President pushes story from reporter who used to work for alleged anti-immigrant hate group.

Two US soldiers were questioned by Mexican troops earlier this month while conducting a surveillance operation on the US side of the southern border, two US defense officials tell CNN.

"What you are requesting," said a top ICE official, "is not something that we are going to be able to complete in a rapid fashion."

The move would set the stage for a vast legal debate and battle over the role that national injunctions play in the courts

HUD's own analysis concluded that half the residents in households potentially facing evictions and homelessness are children who are legally eligible for aid.

Scott Daniel Warren did no more than give bare necessities to migrants trekking through the desert. Why is he on trial?

A county attorney in West Texas was detained for helping three young migrants, part of an escalating attempt to investigate and punish those providing aid to border crossers.

The plan, to be unveiled Thursday, will significantly scale back family-based immigration and increase the educational and skills requirements to move to the United States.

The proposal, published on Friday, would prohibit families with at least one undocumented immigrant from obtaining public housing benefits.

“I’ve looked at them and I’ve looked at their eyes, Tucker — and I’ve said that is a soon-to-be MS-13 gang member. It’s unequivocal.”

Businesses can’t find workers, we need immigrants to keep the Trump boom going.

If President Trump closes our borders due to a misguided belief that our nation is full, it will limit our economy and devastate my beloved heartland.

America isn't full, despite what President Trump says. We have plenty of room for new immigrants and they benefit our nation.

An aging population and a declining birthrate among the native-born population mean a shrinking work force in many areas.

‘Oreo?’ a confused Carson replied when Rep. Kathy Porter (D-CA) asked him about a fundamental term related to foreclosures.

Immigrants serving in the U.S. military are being denied citizenship at a higher rate than foreign-born civilians, according to new government data that has revealed the impact of stricter Trump...

The Trump administration today announced its plan to deny transgender people experiencing homelessness equal access to shelters.

Proposed rule would allow homeless shelters to bar transgender people on religious grounds or force transgender women to share bathrooms and sleeping quarters with men.

Acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahan lays out criteria for providing operational plans to lawmakers.

Exclusive: Fisher Industries, which claims it can build the barrier faster and cheaper than Army Corps of Engineers, has started work on private section of barrier in New Mexico.

Tuesday the HUD secretary was "not currently anticipating changing the rule." Wednesday, he rolled out changes.

Rights groups denounced the move as a license to discriminate against LGBTQ Americans.

Thousands of immigrants are being forced into solitary confinement because they're LGBTQ, disabled, or …

Scott Warren of the humanitarian group 'No More Deaths' faces three felony counts for harboring migrants. The number of U.S. citizens arrested for harboring is on the rise.

Lynne Patton said she may have violated the Hatch Act, then called anyone mad about it a “liberal snowflake.”

Weeks before the Supreme Court rules on the legality of the citizenship question, evidence filed in court could further erode the Trump administration’s rationale for the question.

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Friday said that President Trump's threat to impose tariffs on Mexico over the flow of migrants should come as no surprise.

A federal judge found the department’s own records disturbing and ordered the names of the accused agents made public. Now, DHS has taken its fight against doing so to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of...

“I don’t know if they lose their babies for good,” one doctor said. “But I do know the process is torturous for them.”

According to new U.S. data, about half of the 2,000 unaccompanied minors in custody at Border Patrol facilities have exceed the 72-hour detention limit.

The draft proposal would deny asylum to thousands of migrants waiting just south of the border.

Nobody is happy about Trump’s latest tariff moves, except for his trusty xenophobic adviser.

The immigration hawk with zero trade experience reportedly lobbied for the move.

Not until 39 hours later — after two nights in a van — did the last child step out of a van to be reunited. Most spent at least 23 hours in the vehicles.

At a news conference in London, the president says Republican senators would be “foolish” to try to stop him.

The president said Republicans would be “foolish” to try to stop the levies.

The House voted Tuesday to give 2.5 million young undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship, a defiant gesture as President Trump pushes a crackdown on migrants.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Tuesday ended the most popular forms of U.S. travel to Cuba, banning cruise ships and a heavily used category of educational travel in an attempt to...

Trump’s calls for a border wall won’t make it harder for domestic violence survivors to find refuge in the U.S.—a new ruling is already doing that. Marie Claire goes to Tijuana to see what women...

Advocates argue that asking Greyhound passengers about their citizenship can be unconstitutional and involve racial profiling.

The administration's request could violate federal law dictating conditions for holding immigrant children in government custody.

In an email obtained by The Washington Post, U.S. officials say program for sheltering minors who crossed the border is running out of money, must focus on “essential” services.

A stark choice for some Guatemalans: watch crops wither, and maybe die with them, or migrate.

The administration is rejecting requests from U.S. embassies to fly the rainbow flag on flagpoles during June, LGBTQ Pride Month, say 3 U.S. diplomats.

Should American embassies be allowed to fly gay pride flags in addition to the Stars and Stripes?

In the past two years, the Homeland Security inspector general retracted 13 reports about FEMA’s response. Now it has turned the spotlight on itself.

Administration officials said proposed testimony by a State Department scientist amounted to “climate alarm propaganda.”

If you were paying close attention last week, you might have spotted a pattern in the news.

A top Transportation official helped coordinate grant applications by McConnell’s political allies.

Pompeo's Solution To Dealing With Climate Change: 'Move To Different Places'

Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley reportedly “expressed alarm” at a claim from Department of Homeland Security officials that migrants are supposedly “renting babies” in order to ease their crossing into th...

Trump asserted executive privilege hours earlier to block access to documents on adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.

Weeks before the Supreme Court rules on the legality of the citizenship question, evidence filed in court could further erode the Trump administration’s rationale for the question.

Immigration officials have resumed the much-criticized practice of keeping people outdoors for weeks to relieve dangerous overcrowding.

HHS said Fort Sill will be used “as a temporary emergency influx shelter”

On Saturday, Japanese internment camp survivors demonstrated outside the Oklahoma military base.

For a growing number of migrant children, this is their first home in America: a sprawling campus dotted with beige buildings, massive white tents and metal trailers, next door to a U.S. Air Force...

One of the less reported aspects of the United States deportation system is its profitability. Private, for-profit companies and contractors are paid billions of dollars to carry out the Trump...

The NIH and the FBI are targeting ethnic Chinese scientists, including U.S. citizens, searching for a cancer cure. Here’s the first account of what happened to Xifeng Wu.

President Trump is directing all agencies to cut their advisory boards by “at least” one third.

Asylum officers worry they’re being forced to send some Central Americans to wait in Mexico — even when they’re in danger of persecution there.

Kirstjen Nielsen and other top officials blocked the plan, which would have targeted thousands for deportation. Now, those officials are gone.

President’s tweet on Monday night appears to reference stalled ICE plan to sweep up families in major U.S. cities.

The Trump administration argued in front of a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday that the government is not required to give soap or toothbrushes to children apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border and can...

Two Department of Homeland Security officials told NBC News that the raids were called off in large part because details of the plan had leaked to media.

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he would delay nationwide raids aimed at deporting millions of undocumented immigrants.

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he's delaying for two weeks US Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids that were planned to take place Sunday in 10 major US cities, saying deportat...

In an interview with NPR, Acting ICE Director Mark Morgan says his agency is only enforcing the law. "So what are our options?" he asked. "They've had due process."

It costs $775 per person per night to house the migrant children separated from their parents in a tent city. The rates advertised at some of President Donald Trump's most expensive hotels are lower...

Six people purchased $340 of soap, diapers, wipes and toys and drove to the Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas to deliver the items but were unable to do so.

The U.S. government may run out of money in July to shelter migrant children apprehended as they cross the southern border with Mexico, said Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.

As donors try to give diapers, toothbrushes and other items to migrant kids in US custody near the border, some accuse the federal government of letting red tape get in the way of human decency.

The Department of Homeland Security targeted individuals for "failing to depart the U.S. as previously agreed," among other factors. It's the latest effort to clamp down on interior enforcement.

Lobbying dollars and a cozy relationship with the government have given the tech giant an outsize influence in the Department of Homeland Security.

Trump tweeted Wednesday that his administration is "absolutely moving forward" on the citizenship question.

President Donald Trump said he may issue an executive order to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 census as the administration considers alternatives after the Supreme Court put the matter on...

One official at a Border Patrol facility told investigators that the migrant crisis is a "ticking time bomb."

The inspector general's office visited Customs and Border Protection sites across the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas. They found migrants penned in overcrowded Border Patrol facilities.

The state DMV databases form the bedrock of an unprecedented surveillance infrastructure, allowing federal investigative and immigration agents to scan millions of Americans’ faces without their...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have analyzed millions of drivers’ photos without their knowledge, newly released documents show.

The move possibly signals career attorneys’ legal and ethical concerns over the latest maneuvering ordered by President Trump.

It was not immediately clear whether the legal team handling the citizenship question case asked to be removed.

Attorney General William Barr said Monday that he believes the Trump administration can legally add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, though the Supreme Court ruled against its inclusion

The White House insisted allegations that it wanted to add a citizenship question to the survey for political reasons were conspiracy theories, right up until the moment the president confirmed them.

The government is abruptly switching legal teams after reversing course on the citizenship question.

The facilities are all run by private prison companies, and one experienced a violent riot.

Some of those targeted might end up being held in hotel rooms until their travel documents can be prepared. ICE’s goal is to deport the families as quickly as possible.

Starting Sunday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is expected to resume its previously announced plan to apprehend thousands of illegal immigrants across the country. 

Mr. Trump announced in the Rose Garden on Thursday that he was giving up on the census question two weeks after the Supreme Court rebuked the Trump administration over its effort to modify the census.

His planned raid against undocumented immigrants on Sunday recalls some of the darkest chapters in American history.

Proposals for the new sites in Georgia, Texas and Arizona are for long-term facilities.

Immigration officials carried out small-scale raids over the weekend, kicking off what President Trump had promised would be a broad effort to round up people in the country illegally.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said he doesn't care if migrants held in the detention centers he toured with Vice President Mike Pence are detained for well over a year.

The Trump administration moved Monday to effectively end asylum for any migrant who arrives at the U.S.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conduct a raid in Southern California. How will the Trump administration contain potential violence? Trump almost certainly doesn’t know, just as he...

The Trump administration plans to move most of the Bureau of Land Management’s D.C. workforce out west, part of its broader push to shift power away from Washington and shrink the size of the federal...

The new rule, to take effect Tuesday, would require asylum seekers to request refuge in countries they reach before they get to the United States. The decision is certain to draw legal challenges.

This series explores the landscape of county-level ICE cooperation, and efforts to reform those ties, in specific states.

When Donald Trump's German grandfather was ordered by a royal decree to leave the country and never return, he wrote a letter pleading the prince regent of Bavaria not to deport him.  Friedrich Trump

A New York federal judge has issued an order definitively blocking the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census in any form, despite the administration's insistence...

In a series of emails, prison execs pleaded with ICE to pick up their multimillion-dollar tab. At the same time, they argued to shareholders that the suits were no big deal.

The Department of Homeland Security has dismantled or ended multiple programs intended to counter WMD attacks, a Times investigation found.

An ICE official said the agency "expected [an] overflow of individuals appearing for immigration proceedings today"

Santos Monroy, Raymundo Olmedo and more than a dozen other immigrants reported for Dallas court hearings on their deportation cases Thursday only...

Vice President Pence said 90 percent skip them, but even the Justice Department’s preferred metric shows half that rate: 44 percent.

"90 percent."

The White House has a number in mind for refugee admissions, which is lower than last year's ceiling -- which is to say, 100% lower.

If the administration shuts down refugee admissions, it would give Trump a powerful talking point as he makes immigration restrictions a centerpiece of his reelection campaign.

The hard-line measures come as Trump appears poised to make immigration a focus of his 2020 reelection campaign.

The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed a rule to tighten food stamp eligibility that would cut about 3.1 million people from the program, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials said, drawing...

Attorney General William Barr directed the the federal government to resume capital punishment after nearly two decades and has directed the Bureau of Prisons to schedule the execution of five...

The troops "monitor" migrants at a Texas facility. One congressman said they shouldn't be prison guards, and are close to breaking the Posse Comitatus law.

The attorney general says Congress never intended for asylum-seekers to include family members as part of a "particular social group" eligible for protection.

One former Trump official said White House senior adviser Stephen Miller has maintained a “singular obsession” with the public charge rule.

Where's Warren's health plan? — Budget deal preserves Hyde amendment

An examination of court filings in all seven leak cases filed under Trump yields a detailed picture of how the government tries to unmask confidential sources.

The Trump Organization pledged early this year to scrutinize the legal status of its employees. But a little-known company owned by the president has continued to use undocumented workers for...

The administration argues that immigration judges are managers who are barred from forming a union. The leader of the union says the administration wants the judges to speed up deportation cases.

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a previous court order mandating the Trump administration provide basic personal hygiene items to children in detention at facilities in the Rio Grande

The findings were contained in a report published by the State Department inspector general’s office.

The move is sure to rile Democrats already angered by what they see as President Donald Trump's harsh immigration policies.

The GOP memo falsely pinned the El Paso massacre and other notable mass shootings on the left.

House Republican leadership has sent a memo to GOP members of Congress directing them to lie about right wing white supremacist gun massacres, and to call it “violence from the left.” The memo, which...

The administration wants to send migrant families caught crossing the border illegally to a family detention center for as long as it takes for their cases to be decided.

Officials to discard 20-day limit on detaining children; they say they hope detentions will deter mass migration

Migrant families crossing the southern border of the US illegally could now be detained indefinitely.

A draft order obtained by NBC News says the government "will resettle refugees only where both the relevant state and local governments have consented."

A landmark consent decree in 1997 set conditions for detention of migrant children. It started with two Central American girls, Alma Cruz and Jenny Flores.

DOJ argued that Title VII does not protect transgender people

For the seventh time this year, ICE has started using a new jail in Louisiana.

Combined with existing space, the funding would allow ICE to detain nearly 50,000 immigrants at one time.

Children born to U.S. service members and government employees overseas will no longer be automatically considered citizens of the United States, according to policy alert issued by U.S. Citizenship...

The Trump administration is making it more difficult for the children of some US service members and US government employees living abroad to automatically become US citizens, according to a policy...

More bad news for unions and workers from an NLRB dominated by Trump appointees. Reuters reports:

“This is just another attack on the asylum system,” said one USCIS official.

Marshall Billingslea involvement in Bush-era torture should be disqualifying.

Dear Senators: We are a group of non-governmental organizations that advocate for human rights, civil rights, and government accountability. We are writing to share our serious concerns about

The Trump administration thinks the Supreme Court is its personal fixer. The court isn’t doing much to disabuse it of this idea.

The plan is intended to cut eligibility among families considered less needy.

The president approved an 18,000-person limit on the number of refugees who can be admitted into the United States in fiscal 2020, about half the current limit of 30,000.

The U.S. population gained immigrants last year at the slowest pace since 2008. President Trump’s approach to immigration is seen as the likely cause.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos faces potential sanctions or a finding she’s in contempt of court for continuing to collect on the debt of former students at bankrupt Corinthian Colleges...

The rule, slated to go into effect on Tuesday, would have made it easier for the government to reject green card and temporary visa applications from low-income immigrants

A federal court in Texas has ruled that President Trump violated the law by using a national emergency proclamation to acquire funds to build the border wall with Mexico. NBC News' Pete Williams has...

A federal judge in Texas ruled Friday that President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration to build a border wall is unlawful and appears poised to block the use of those funds.

Who is Ron Vara? He seems to exist only in the books of Peter Navarro.

That’s one lobbyist for every 14 political appointees, and four times more than Obama had appointed six years into office.

In a wave of dubious voter purges driven by Republicans, Ohio tried to remove League of Women Voters official

The White House personnel office chief has told President Trump that his top two picks to fill the Homeland Security Secretary job aren’t eligible under a federal law dictating who can fill the role...

The president’s staff has determined a federal law governing agency succession makes Ken Cuccinelli and Mark Morgan ineligible.

White House officials have said President Trump's phone call with the president of Ukraine, in which he sought an investigation of Joe Biden, as part of a focus on corruption in that country. But...

The ruling comes after the agency revealed that it violated a court order to halt student debt collection on more than 16,000 former Corinthian Colleges students.

The emails came to light in a Washington Post article.

Policies aimed at curbing immigration and turning away asylum seekers are under legal challenge, but U.S. officials hope to implement the new policies along the entire border.

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said that the Trump administration’s immigration policies violate the rights of migrants.

Constance Wannamaker wanted to scream and cry at the same time. The Texas immigration attorney had just heard what should have been great news: Her client, a 21-year-old Guatemalan woman, was getting...

Checkpoints by U.S. Border Patrol in Vermont have garnered attention. So, how can the federal agency operate here?

The Trump administration promised that asylum-seekers who already had U.S. cases, but had been forced to return to Mexico to await court dates, could still get asylum. That might not be the case.

Trump has effectively banned immigration judges, asylum officers, and ICE attorneys from speaking out about what they’re seeing.

The Trump administration is close to implementing an asylum agreement with Guatemala that would limit who's eligible for asylum in the United States, according to sources familiar with the matter.

It's no surprise that Donald Trump's campaign isn't thrilled that it will become just a little bit more difficult to spew their lies.

Despite the president’s statement, Kevin McAleenan remains at DHS in the acting leadership role, officials said.

An Oregon judge says a proposal by the president would cause "irreparable harm" to families.

Family separations are a stain on Trump and America.

The White House missed the deadline for formally naming someone to replace acting DHS chief Kevin McAleenan.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court takes up a case that will determine the fate of the Obama-era program that has allowed about 800,000 young people who entered the country as children.

The US is one of just 13 countries to have voted against a United Nations resolution condemning the death penalty for having gay sex.  Although the vote passed, America joined countries such as

“This outrageous rule aims to price out low-income and working-class immigrants from U.S. citizenship," says an immigration rights advocate.

Plan to designate unlawful migrants as ‘enemy combatants’ provoked astonishment and mortification, says author of A Warning