Immigration

The President-elect’s priorities could run into the realities faced by agents focused on enforcement and removals: The number of people already on its lists eclipses the number of officers available to do the work.

Ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House, California Sen. Alex Padilla is among those urging President Joe Biden to take action to protect undocumented immigrants, particularly so-called DACA “Dreamers,” before leaving office.

Increased deportation flights, including on weekends, and streamlined travel procedures for people sent to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador fueled the increase, ICE said.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it was following the orders of an immigration judge and the parents decided for the infants to go to Mexico with her.

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday passed the measure to end the use of any county resources for immigration enforcement by a vote of 3-1.

The County Board of Supervisors passed a measure this week aimed at ending transfers to ICE.  But the sheriff says she won’t enforce it, leaving major questions about what’s next.  NBC7’s Shelby Bremer explains where things stand.

The incoming Trump administration intends to rescind a long-standing policy that has prevented Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from arresting undocumented people at or near so-called sensitive locations.

A federal judge in North Dakota blocked a Biden administration rule that allowed DACA recipients to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.

Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and other high-level posts have been outsiders, often with Fox News appearances as key qualifications. But to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Trump went a different route.

United States and Guatemalan authorities have announced the arrest of six people charged with human smuggling linked to a semi-trailer truck crash in Mexico in 2021 that killed more than 50 migrants.

Plans were unveiled, Saturday afternoon, for a future housing development and cultural hub specifically serving immigrants and refugees. NBC 7’s M.G. Perez reports. 

Plans were unveiled, Saturday afternoon, for a future housing development and cultural hub specifically serving immigrants and refugees.

President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration and border team is filling out.

The transition team is preparing a list of countries to which migrants might be deported when their home countries refuse to accept them, three sources familiar with the plans told NBC News.

The state’s land commissioner bought a 1,402-acre plot on the Rio Grande and has offered it to the incoming Trump administration for immigrant detention centers.

Amid threats of new tariffs, the incoming U.S. president said Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum had “agreed to stop migration.”

Border Patrol agents are tasked with enforcing hotly contested immigration policies as many Americans at both ends of the political spectrum look askance at the border — and the agents. That’s taking a mounting toll, so the agency is training more among its ranks to become chaplains and provide spiritual care for their fellow agents on and off the job....

California farmworkers, many of whom are undocumented, are bracing for possible changes once President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House.

A U.S. Coast Guard cutter intercepted 37 migrants attempting to enter the United States illegally aboard a 33-foot vessel on Saturday, approximately seven nautical miles off Point Loma, Coast Guard officials announced Sunday.

According to Donald Trump’s Agenda 47, the President-elect announced his plan to “sign an executive order on Day One to end automatic citizenship for children of illegal aliens.”