Attorney General William Barr. | Cliff Owen/AP Photo By JOSH GERSTEIN 02/10/2020 07:57 PM EST The Trump administration dramatically escalated its war with so-called sanctuary states Monday, filing suit against California and New Jersey over laws that federal officials say undermine immigration enforcement. The Justice Department suits target a California law banning privately run detention […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge in Maryland has banned immigration officials from arresting, detaining and deporting immigrants who are seeking legal status based on their marriages to U.S. citizens. U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel issued the ruling Friday in a case filed by six couples accusing immigration officials of luring families to marriage […]
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have begun fingerprinting unaccompanied immigrant children over the age of 14 who are not in their custody but are in shelters across the country, BuzzFeed News has learned. ICE officials called it a way to protect unaccompanied minors in custody. “In January, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued field […]
Nigerians make up one of the largest groups of African immigrants in the U.S. Some are worried that family members who’ve applied for visas won’t be able to come now because of new travel ban restrictions. Carmel Delshad/WAMU hide caption toggle caption Carmel Delshad/WAMU Akinbode Akinmutimi still remembers the first time he saw a U.S. […]