Immigration

The Justice Department moved to dismiss corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams on Friday, one day after Adams agreed to provide ICE access to Rikers Island jail.

The Department of Justice fired multiple immigration judges on Friday, according to two sources familiar with the decision and a statement from one of the judges on LinkedIn.

Sikh community members said they have already seen how anxieties around immigration have impeded the way in which some, including naturalized citizens, practice their faith.

Election integrity has become a divisive political issue. A Republican-backed bill seeks to “safeguard” elections though voting rights advocates say the effort is an unnecessary burden that will suppress voters.

With the president already ending various legal immigration programs and the fate of DACA remaining uncertain, Dreamers fear for their protections.

El Cajon council members voted 3-2, confirming the city’s intent to work with federal immigration authorities.

Pope Francis criticized President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy in a letter to U.S. bishops Monday and pleaded with Catholics not to give into “narratives that discriminate.”

A federal judge in New Hampshire has issued an immediate injunction blocking President Donald Trump’s effort to restrict birthright citizenship.

A prayer service for immigrant families was held Sunday at St. Joseph Cathedral, reports NBC 7’s Kelvin Henry.

A prayer service for immigrant families was held Sunday at St. Joseph Cathedral.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws Friday setting aside $50 million to help the state protect its policies from challenges by the Trump administration and defend immigrants amid the president’s mass deportation plans.

The Otay Mesa Detention Center is a local facility where ICE holds people in deportation proceedings, reports NBC 7’s Shelby Bremer, but officials won’t tell us how many people are being held there.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is getting ready to ask private prison companies to bid for contracts to re-open family detention facilities.

An Ohio city that was inundated with threats last year related to an influx of Haitian immigrants has sued a neo-Nazi group that it alleges was at the heart of the onslaught.

Arrests and deportations of undocumented people are lower than what Donald Trump has promised, and that is “driving him nuts,” one source told NBC News.

A federal judge in Boston said on Friday he would take under advisement a request from 18 state attorneys general to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally.

The U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Illinois and Chicago, filed Thursday over their policies limiting local law enforcement’s cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, has raised questions for some on whether California and San Diego County, which have similar so-called “sanctuary” laws on the books, could see legal action as well.

San Diego’s immigration courts are facing a big backlog of cases, but nothing compared to other major cities.

A Trump DOJ lawsuit against Illinois and Chicago sanctuary city laws is raising major questions in California and San Diego County since both have similar policies limiting cooperation with federal immigration authorities. NBC 7’s Shelby Bremer reports.

A federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order Thursday blocking Trump’s executive order that seeks to limit birthright citizenship from taking effect for fourteen days.