New asylum policies were announced after the shooting of two West Virginia National Guard soldiers over the Thanksgiving ...

The wave of legal challenges is in response to the Trump administration’s intensified immigration enforcement and policy ...

AUSTIN – As Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton gears up for his race to unseat U.S. Sen. John Cornyn next year, his move ...

A panel of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Senate Bill 4, the Texas law giving local police the power to arrest undocumented immigrants, is unconstitutional. Credit: John Jordan ...

Efrén Olivares of McAllen immigrated to the U.S. from Mexico at age 13. He's now a leading immigration and human rights ...

A federal judge on Thursday blocked a new Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S., dealing a victory to the Biden administration with ...

A lawyer says ICE agents tried to arrest the Austin father of deported student Any Lucia Lopez Belloza; agents later left ...

Federal prosecutors in South Texas announced charges against 235 people in immigration cases, including human smuggling and ...

WASHINGTON -- A new law that gives local law enforcement in Texas the authority to arrest migrants "violates the US Constitution," the Department of Justice said in a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott on ...

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