Immigration

AP VoteCast: Voters prioritize health care in South Carolina

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in Saturday’s Democratic presidential primary election in South Carolina called health care the...
22:30 28 February 2022

Court halts Trump asylum policy, then suspends its own order

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Trump administration immigration policy that requires asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their ca...
14:27 28 February 2022

The Latest: Warren says she got results post-financial crash

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 Democratic presidential primary contest (all times local):10 p.m.Elizabet...
3:04 28 February 2022

Nazi cautionary dramas wade into political, factual disputes

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood mustered its creative forces in the 1940s when Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany sought to conque...
18:57 27 February 2022

Shifting demographics drive GOP nosedive on US West Coast

BEND, Ore. (AP) — In the early 1990s, the population of Bend was around 25,000 and leaned Republican. A lumber mill oper...
21:49 26 February 2022

Death toll rises to 24 from Delhi riots during Trump trip

NEW DELHI (AP) — At least 24 people were killed and 189 injured in three days of clashes in New Delhi that coincided wit...
18:27 26 February 2022

Congress warns Pentagon not to move money to fund Trump wall

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers from both parties told Pentagon leaders on Wednesday that the Defense Department is undermin...
16:22 26 February 2022

Crackdown on immigrants who use public benefits takes effect

PHOENIX (AP) — Pastor Antonio Velasquez says that before the Trump administration announced a crackdown on immigrants us...
17:01 24 February 2022

10,000 mourn victims of racist shooting rampage in Germany

BERLIN (AP) — Around 10,000 protesters marched through the central German town of Hanau on Sunday to mourn the nine peop...
19:00 23 February 2022

Israel’s Lieberman stills holds keys to future government

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel finds itself in a familiar place after a tumultuous election campaign — with maverick politician...
7:04 23 February 2022

Germany admits there’s a far-right problem, but what to do?

BERLIN (AP) — As Germany’s president expressed his sympathy and shock during a candlelight vigil for nine people killed ...
7:27 22 February 2022

Greyhound to stop allowing immigration checks on buses

SEATTLE (AP) — Greyhound, the nation’s largest bus company, said Friday it will stop allowing Border Patrol agents witho...
22:16 21 February 2022

Democrats avoid immigration specifics ahead of Nevada vote

LAS VEGAS (AP) — As a diverse crowd filled a college student union this week, they swapped stories of seeking refuge in ...
21:30 21 February 2022

Arizona governor pulls immigration plan amid business revolt

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey spent much of his first term working to repair the damage to the state’s reputati...
20:30 21 February 2022

Settlement approved in discrimination suit against Motel 6

PHOENIX (AP) — A judge has given final approval to a $10 million settlement in a class-action discrimination lawsuit tha...
21:30 19 February 2022

UK employers fear worker shortages in new immigration plan

LONDON (AP) — Vegetables rotting in the fields, food going unprocessed, the elderly and disabled left without care. That...
15:46 19 February 2022

The Latest: Klobuchar revisits flub about Mexico’s leader

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the 2020 presidential campaign (all times local):7:35 p.m.Amy Klobuchar is trying to make...
3:36 19 February 2022

Immigration agency subpoenas Oregon county over 2 inmates

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement subpoenaed a sheriff’s office in the suburbs of Portland,...
23:52 18 February 2022

UK unveils immigration overhaul for 2021 focused on skills

LONDON (AP) — Britain announced new post-Brexit immigration rules Tuesday that will make it tougher for European Union c...
22:36 18 February 2022

US border clampdown forces Venezuelan teen into Mexico alone

In this Monday, Feb. 17, 2020 photo provided by attorney Jodi Goodwin, a Venezuelan teenager named Branyerly stands on a...
17:23 18 February 2022

For first time, Biden calls Obama deportations ‘big mistake’

LAS VEGAS — Going further than he ever has in expressing regret over Obama administration immigration policy, presidential candidate Joe Biden called ...
23:01 15 February 2022

Biden in Vegas takes on Sanders’ gun votes in fiery speech

LAS VEGAS — Joe Biden, standing on a Las Vegas stage roughly 1,000 feet from the scene of the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, took on ...
21:30 15 February 2022

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s wall claim is beyond ‘redemption’

WASHINGTON — On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, President Donald Trump told a rally that people who are in the United States illegally are payin...
13:34 15 February 2022

Klobuchar shifts on immigration before Nevada caucuses

LAS VEGAS — Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar says she no longer believes English should be the national language of the U.S., disavowin...
5:44 15 February 2022

US border agents to pursue migrants in ‘sanctuary’ cities

WASHINGTON — Federal agents who normally patrol the U.S. border will be deployed to “sanctuary” cities across the country that are hindering stepped u...
22:16 14 February 2022

Esper defends shifting defense funds for Trump’s border wall

MUNICH, Germany — U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Friday defended his decision to divert billions of dollars in funding for Navy and Air Force ai...
12:27 14 February 2022

LA church leaders charged with marriage, immigration fraud

LOS ANGELES — Three officials with a Philippines-based church in Los Angeles have been charged as part of an alleged scheme to trick followers into be...
5:36 14 February 2022

Cuomo meets with Trump to offer deal on travelers program

WASHINGTON — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo visited the White House on Thursday in the hope he could persuade President Donald Trump to reverse a decision...
22:32 13 February 2022

Holding-cell stats raise questions about Trump asylum policy

SAN DIEGO — Many U.S. holding cells along the Mexican border were less than half-full, even empty, during an unprecedented surge of asylum-seeking fam...
21:49 13 February 2022

A Trump Fed choice faces Senate scrutiny over policy views

WASHINGTON — One of President Donald Trump's nominees for the Federal Reserve will likely face skeptical questioning from a Senate committee Thursday ...
5:01 13 February 2022