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FILE – Immigrants seeking asylum walk through the ICE South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, on Aug. 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Judge to consider the fate of an agreement on protecting immigrant children in US custody

August 8, 2025 at 8:34 a.m.

A federal judge on Friday will hear a Trump administration request to end a nearly three-decade-old policy on ensuring safe conditions for immigrant children held in federal custody.

FILE – A protestor shouts, “Let him out”, demanding the release of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka after his arrest while protesting at an ICE detention prison, in Newark, N.J., May 9, 2025, (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, File)

What is a ‘sanctuary jurisdiction’ and how was the US list of them made?

May 30, 2025 at 6:37 p.m.

The U.S. government’s list of “sanctuary jurisdictions” that includes hundreds of communities, both red and blue, is confounding critics.

FILE – In this March 30, 2021, file photo, young unaccompanied migrants, watch television inside a playpen at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility, the main detention center for unaccompanied children in the Rio Grande Valley, in Donna, Texas. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills, Pool, File)

Trump administration seeks to end protections for immigrant children in federal custody

May 22, 2025 at 2:13 p.m.

The Trump administration is seeking to end an immigration policy cornerstone that since the 1990s has offered protections to child migrants in federal custody, a move that will be challenged...

FILE – A migrant seeking asylum holds up the CBP One app showing his appointment was canceled after President Donald Trump was sworn into office, Jan. 20, 2025, in Matamoros, Mexico. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Orders to leave the country — some for US citizen — sow confusion among immigrants

April 23, 2025 at 8:30 a.m.

Hubert Montoya burst out laughing when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security emailed to say he should leave the country immediately or risk consequences of being deported. He is a...

FILE – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detain someone during an enforcement operation, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Once-routine immigration check-ins become high-stakes calculation as some are detained

March 14, 2025 at 7:58 a.m.

Many people now fear that once-routine immigration check-ins will be used as an opportunity to detain them.

FILE – Immigrants seeking asylum walk at the ICE South Texas Family Residential Center, Aug. 23, 2019, in Dilley, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Trump administration resumes detention of immigrant families after Biden-era pause

March 13, 2025 at 11:45 a.m.

The Trump administration resumed family detention of immigrants last week after a Biden-era pause, a legal nonprofit group providing services to migrant families said.

Vice President JD Vance arrives before President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Vice President JD Vance promotes President Donald Trump’s ‘whole government’ immigration crackdown during visit to US-Mexico border

March 6, 2025 at 12:47 p.m.

Vice President JD Vance visited the U.S.-Mexico border and said that arrests for illegal crossings had fallen sharply.

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