Immigration

Lucas Sielaff spent 16 days locked up at the Otay Mesa Detention facility south of San Diego before being allowed to fly home to Germany. He shares his story.

Kseniia Petrova’s attorney said her previous arrest in Russia and social media activity “will almost certainly ensure a nice, hefty jail sentence for her” if she is deported back.

President Donald Trump’s moves in Washington are being felt in the milking barns of an upstate New York dairy farm. There, AJ Wormuth said he’s already seeing costs go up from Trump’s tariffs while the threat of a wider trade war is driving down the price he gets paid for his cows’ milk. “We’re getting a double whammy — we’re getting...

More than two dozen members of Congress demanded answers for Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was detained by ICE earlier this week.

A leader of the gang MS-13 was arrested in Virginia early Thursday, top Trump administration officials announced amid a crackdown on immigrants accused of gang activity.

A Tufts University student is being held at an ICE detention facility in Louisiana, and there are growing questions about how she was taken into custody and the timeline of sending her out of state.

An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody Tuesday night outside an off-campus apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts, according to the university and her attorney.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department will not enforce federal immigration laws, Sheriff Don Barnes said Tuesday while criticizing state law.

Genaro Carreto was taking two of his children, Bilver and Eugenia, to school on March 12 when he was pulled over and ICE agents took him into custody. He’s been held at the Otay Mesa Detention Center ever since.

Finalizing applications filed by certain immigrants to become legal permanent residents is being put on hold to comply with an executive order President Donald Trump signed in January.

An undocumented man detained as he took his children to school in City Heights will be released from custody, reports NBC 7’s Shelby Bremer.

The Trump admin invoked a “state secrets privilege” and refused to give a federal judge any additional information about the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law.

Canadian actress Jasmine Mooney, who starred in “American Pie Presents: The Book of Love,” is speaking out after she was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for nearly two weeks while trying to renew her work visa. The entrepreneur was detained by immigration officials after she attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border on March 3 and reapply for the...

The White House is considering beefing up military operations along the border, creating a sort of buffer zone. NBC 7’s Jeanette Quezada breaks down what we know about these zones and how they might work.

The Department of Homeland Security says it will revoke legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, setting them up for potential deportation in about a month.

Federal authorities have charged multiple individuals who illegally re-entered the country, including suspects with violent criminal histories.

An undocumented migrant who has lived in Santa Ana for the last three years is on the verge of being deported back to a country he fled due to violence.

Families and lawyers fear for the deportees who may face indefinite detention in a prison known for human rights abuses.

The Trump administration is now looking to the seas to patrol the waters between the U.S. and Mexico and stop maritime terrorism and illegal immigration. NBC 7’s Karla Gonzalez spoke to analysts who say we could see more of these deployments in the future.

A federal judge has ordered immigration officials not to deport a Georgetown University scholar that the government detained until the court has had a chance to rule.