immigrants

U.S. 12/17/21, 17:21

A Colorado judge sentenced a truck driver on Monday, Dec. 13, to 110 years in jail for a severe crash that took the lives of four people. Rogel Aguilera-Mederos, 26, murdered four people when his 18-wheeler collided with dozens of other vehicles on a Colorado highway on Apr. 25, 2019. Aguilera-Mederos, a ...

U.S. 06/03/21, 14:53

Border Patrol officials intercepted attempts to smuggle more than 160 undocumented immigrants through the U.S. southern border last week. According to a news release from Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday, June 1, a tanker trailer was halted after approaching a checkpoint on Interstate 83 in the Laredo sector in Texas ...

U.S. 04/22/21, 04:13

The California Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD) sent automated emails and phone calls to foster parents, asking if they would take one to 26 unaccompanied migrant children who had reached the United States illegally. The bulk of the participants were aged 12 to 17, according to Center Square. "This is an ...

Politics 04/15/21, 19:50

Warning: This story contains a graphic video that may disturb some viewers. Discretion is advised. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials announced on Tuesday, April 13, they discovered groups of individuals identified as "fraudulent family units" illegally entering the United States through Yuma, Arizona, over the weekend.  CBP said they found ...

Central America 04/07/21, 18:09

After crossing the Rio Grande River in Texas, a scared little boy spent the night in an area of the desert riddled with rattlesnakes and wild animals. He begged for help in a heartbreaking video recorded by a U.S. Border Patrol officer with tears streaming from his eyes. According to a ...

Texas 02/19/21, 02:57

The Democratic mayor of Del Rio, Texas, Bruno Lozano, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, pleaded with President Joe Biden to stop releasing migrants into the area as the state faces food and water shortages during the winter storm crisis.  “I am pleading and requesting with you to please put a halt to ...

Europe 03/06/20, 08:45

The Turkish government is promoting its "open door" policy to allow the immigrants it houses to enter Europe, and to prevent them from returning it is sending 1,000 special agents to the border. Greece has a land border with Turkey and has closed its borders and is denying the entry of ...

U.S. 02/25/20, 07:07

The Trump administration on Monday, Feb. 24, officially implemented the "public charge" rule that restricts green cards for immigrants who have used a wide range of nonemergency welfare programs. “President [Donald] Trump continues to deliver on his promise to the American people to enforce our nation’s immigration laws. After several judicial ...

U.S. 11/17/19, 06:02

Border Patrol officials are giving President Donald Trump the credit after a report released this week showed a drop of nearly 73 percent in apprehensions at the U.S.- Mexico border in the last five months. "This administration has implemented critical policies and reached important agreements with our partners in Mexico, El ...

Politics 11/12/19, 12:56

President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Tuesday, Nov. 12, that many recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are "far from angels," and some are even "tough, hardened criminals." However, the president said if the Supreme Court overturns the Obama-era policy, "a deal will be made ...

U.S. 10/05/19, 13:36

President Donald Trump on Friday, Oct. 4, signed a proclamation on the suspension of entry of immigrants which requires them to prove they can afford health care before being granted visas. The proclamation says immigrants will be barred from entering the United States unless they can demonstrate they will have health ...

U.S. 09/12/19, 06:15

The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a victory, after its decision to allow their new immigration restrictions against asylum seekers to be applied. The decision will give a boost to efforts by the White House to stem the flow of immigrants at the southern border. Its decision late on Sept.11 ...

U.S. 06/30/19, 10:33

U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the marine unit of the Eagle Pass South Station saved the life of an illegal teenager after he and his family, all from Honduras, tried to cross the Rio Grande river on Tuesday afternoon, June 25. “Words cannot express my gratitude nor convey the sense ...

U.S. 06/05/19, 19:19

Immigrant children in the care of the U.S. government may no longer have access to English-language courses and legal services, officials said Wednesday. The Health and Human Services department notified shelters around the country last week that it was not going to reimburse them for teachers' pay or other costs such ...

Texas 05/31/19, 19:39

The Latest on the large numbers of immigrants at the southern border (all times local): 6:40 p.m. Border officials in Texas say a group of 116 Africans was arrested Thursday after wading through the Rio Grande to enter the United States. Migrant children line up for a meal at the door of the ...

U.S. 05/29/19, 12:10

The entire US faces a massive shortage of health care professionals over the next decade, including up to 120,000 physicians by 2030

U.S. 05/20/19, 21:26

A Border Patrol agent in Arizona sent texts calling immigrants "savages" and "subhuman" the month before using his patrol vehicle to knock over a Guatemalan man who was trying to flee, prosecutors say. Court documents filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in Tucson say Agent Matthew Bowen sent the ...

California 05/20/19, 20:23

Lilian Serrano's mother-in-law had lots of stomach problems, but she always blamed food. Doctors at a San Diego-area clinic suspected Genoveva Angeles might have cancer, but they could not say for sure because they did not have the equipment to test for it and Angeles, who had been in the country ...

Politics 05/17/19, 11:13

The federal appeals court has ruled the Trump administration acted in an "arbitrary and capricious" manner when it sought to end an Obama-era program that shields young immigrants from deportation. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2 to 1 Friday that the Trump administration violated ...

U.S. 05/09/19, 11:45

For thousands of asylum seekers, there are many ways to wait — and wait, and wait — at the threshold of the United States. Parents and children sleep in tents next to bridges leading to Texas for weeks on end, desperately hoping their names and numbers are called so they can ...