Immigration policy

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

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

NY to sue US over its ouster from trusted traveler programs

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state will file a lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security's decision to block New Yorkers from participating i...
19:05 7 February 2022

Steyer, buoyed by polling, makes campaign swing in Nevada

LAS VEGAS — Driving on any freeway in Las Vegas, you’re likely to see Tom Steyer’s face. Turn on the radio, you might hear his voice. Turn on the tele...
5:29 17 January 2022

With Pompeo out, GOP can’t dodge Kansas Senate race headache

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's declaration Tuesday that he won't run for Senate in Kansas returned some Republicans to worrying that th...
22:55 7 January 2022

LA’s Gómez elected 1st Hispanic to lead US Catholic bishops

BALTIMORE — Archbishop José Gómez of Los Angeles, an immigrant from Mexico, overwhelmingly won election Tuesday as the first Hispanic to head the U.S....
15:24 12 November 2021

Hispanic immigrant in line to lead US Catholic bishops

Clergy sex abuse is once again on the agenda as U.S. Catholic bishops meet this week — but so is a potentially historic milestone: Los Angeles Archbis...
18:08 10 November 2021

Immigration opens ideological fault lines for 2020 Democrats

WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders is adding his support to a call by some of his fellow presidential hopefuls for decriminalizing illegal border crossings, ...
13:42 7 November 2021