President Joe Biden is leaving office with several immigration-related milestones under his belt, including the lowest number of deportations in a single year, the highest number of border encounters in another and record fentanyl seizures.
The president-elect’s immigration advisers have warned Republicans that it will take time and money from Congress to carry out the mass deportation effort he has promised to execute immediately.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will begin their immigration raids from Chicago which is one of hundreds of sanctuaries for immigrants from Tuesday.
The hard-line policies in his first term were a significant shift that reframed the national conversation on immigration and helped return him to the White House.
If Trump fulfills his campaign promises on immigration, he could disrupt a fragile equilibrium at the southern border and hurt the economy.
Federal immigration authorities arrested a 29-year-old Ecuadorian in Minneapolis last year who’d been convicted of criminal sexual conduct with a victim under 13. Also nabbed in the national sweep of noncitizen sex offenders was a 41-year-old Eritrean national in Maplewood convicted of criminal sexual conduct involving multiple acts with an underage victim.
In just a few days time the White House's stance on immigration is poised to shift dramatically to be at odds with many state and local laws in Maryland.
We need to be very transparent,” the incoming border czar said of how he plans to carry out mass deportations.
Two days before Christmas, a group led by President-elect Donald Trump's chief architect of immigration policy wrote to state, county and city officials in so-called "sanctuary" jurisdictions to threaten criminal prosecution,
Sen. Fetterman says he ‘can’t imagine why anyone would find’ this bill controversial after 48 Democrats opposed it in the House
WASHINGTON – Several Senate Democrats from swing states joined with Republicans Friday to clear the final hurdle to passing the Laken Riley Act, which would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain noncitizens who commit certain crimes.