immigration

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA – California on Friday banned private prisons and immigrant detention centers under a bill signed by the liberal state’s governor.The measure stipulates that beginning next year, the state’s Department of…

NEW YORK – Federal judges in three states on Friday temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s policy to deny green cards to many immigrants who use Medicaid, food stamps and other government benefits, dealing a setback to one of the…

WASHINGTON – The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday criticized a judge’s ruling barring his agency from relying solely on databases that have at times led to the wrongful detention of American…

MATAMOROS-BROWNSVILLE BRIDGE, U.S.-MEXICO BORDER – U.S. asylum seekers camped out in a dangerous Mexican border town occupied a bridge to Brownsville, Texas on Thursday, leading to the closure of the crossing, witnesses and…

MANILA – Philippine police and immigration authorities said they have arrested more than 500 illegally working foreigners, mostly Chinese involved in telecommunications and investment scams, in one of the biggest such mass arrests…

HEMMINGFORD, QUEBEC – Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer pledged on Wednesday that if elected his party would take steps to limit illegal border crossings by migrants who first travel to the United States and then proceed to…

WINNFIELD, LOUISIANA – Tucked away in the dense forest of rural Louisiana is a barbed wire-ringed prison that has quickly become a major detention center for immigrants detained at the border.The Winn Correctional Center is one of…

OSLO – Bookmakers seem confident that Swedish teen climate activist Greta Thunberg is a shoo-in for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, but some experts are more cautious.The 16-year-old has already received Amnesty International’s top…

WASHINGTON – The number of migrants encountered at the southern U.S. border declined in September for the fourth straight month, Trump administration officials said Tuesday.Border officials came across about 52,000 migrants at the…

PARIS – French lawmakers are grappling with one of the country’s thorniest issues.On Monday, they began debating immigration, at a time when tent cities have expanded in urban areas across the country and asylum demands are…

WASHINGTON – Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan left an immigration policy conference Monday without speaking after protesters shouted him down.McAleenan was scheduled as the keynote speaker at Georgetown University…

TORONTO – Andrew Scheer, the head of Canada’s opposition Conservatives, on Friday dropped one of his candidates for the Oct. 21 election and faced repeated questions about why he had not revealed that he also has U.S.…

WASHINGTON – Immigrants applying for U.S. visas will be denied entry into the country unless they can prove they can afford health care, according to a proclamation signed Friday by President Donald Trump.The new rule applies to…

With cases of abuse ranging from trainees forced to pay illegal deposits to an intern who was forced to work 225 hours of overtime in a month, authorities last year took disciplinary action against 112 firms using the…

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is planning to expand the collection of DNA from migrants who cross U.S. borders, and to include the information in a massive criminal database operated by the FBI.The effort is separate from…

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – When President Donald Trump dramatically slashed the number of refugees allowed into the U.S., he also gave state and local governments the authority to refuse to accept them for the first time in…

Donald Trump had to be talked down from wild plans on immigration control, which included shooting immigrants, electrifying the border wall and creating a moat filled with crocodiles, according to a new book based on White House insider…

The Immigration Services Agency announced Tuesday a set of measures to prevent the recurrence of deaths from detention center hunger strikes and called on an expert panel to study how it can expedite often prolonged deportation…

On Friday, newly appointed Justice Minister Katsuyuki Kawai promised to reform his ministry, including a pledge to more stringently enforce laws and regulations related to immigration.Kawai said the increase of the foreign worker…

HONOLULU – President Donald Trump is raising a large chunk of the money for his border wall with Mexico by deferring several military construction projects slated for Guam, in a move that may disrupt plans to relocate some marines…