To overcome travel ban, some Americans taking cases to court
NEW YORK — Mohammed Hafar paced around the airport terminal — first to the monitor to check flight arrivals, then to the gift shop and lastly to the d...
Miami ballet school a haven for Venezuelan dancing diaspora
MIAMI — Lusian Hernandez’s eyes watered when she recalled receiving a free pair of pointe shoes after arriving in Miami on a dance scholarship as her ...
AP Photos: Seniors join Indian citizenship law protests
GAUHATI, India — Senior citizens in India's northeastern Assam state have protested against a new citizenship law passed by Prime Minister Narendra Mo...
Gender gap opens among Hispanics who could be key in 2020
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23 dead as protests grow against India citizenship law
NEW DELHI — Nine people died Saturday during clashes between demonstrators and police in northern India, raising the nationwide death toll in protests...
More protests as India grapples with citizenship law fallout
NEW DELHI — Police in the Indian capital charged more than a dozen people with rioting and the government asked broadcasters to refrain from using con...
DHS watchdog finds no wrongdoing in deaths of 2 migrant kids
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security's internal watchdog found no wrongdoing or misconduct by immigration officials in the deaths of two m...
California still most populous, but stalls at 39.9 million
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's population has stalled at 39.9 million people as expensive housing prices and other factors convince more people to ...
Impeachment of Trump voted top 2019 news story in AP poll
NEW YORK — The drive by the Democratic-led House of Representatives to impeach President Donald Trump was the top news story of 2019, according to The...
UN deadline to send North Korean workers home likely unmet
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea stands to lose a rare legitimate source of foreign currency, worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year, if nations...
Late-starting candidate Deval Patrick lays out policy vision
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Deval Patrick on Thursday outlined a broad policy agenda Thursday while jabbing at his progressive riva...
What Crackdown? Migrant smuggling business adapts, thrives
HERMOSILLO, Mexico — The heavy-set man swept through a curtain into the reserved area of a nightclub as his bodyguard stood nearby. In the darkness, h...
Trump says Guatemala is helping stem asylum seekers in US
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump thanked Guatemala's president Tuesday for becoming a more active partner in helping stem a tide of migrants seekin...
Immigrants seeking driver’s licenses line up across New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — Bundled in winter jackets, immigrants lined up at some Department of Motor Vehicle offices throughout New York as the state began issui...
Brazilians arrive in waves at the US-Mexico border
EL PASO, Texas — Growing up along the U.S.-Mexico border, hotel clerk Joe Luis Rubio never thought he'd be trying to communicate in Portuguese on a da...
Man who offered $500 for killing an ICE agent is acquitted
BOSTON — A man who tweeted that he would give $500 to anyone who would kill a federal immigration officer was acquitted Friday in a case that centered...
Asylum-seekers who crossed in Arizona returned to Mexico
PHOENIX — The U.S. government said Friday it had sent nine Venezuelans — including two families — back to Mexico after they tried to make an asylum cl...
Mexicans fleeing violence form new encampment on border
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — An exodus of migrants fleeing drug cartel violence and corruption in Mexico has mired hundreds of immigrants in ramshackle ten...
A locker, a chirp: How tiny clues help solve child sex cases
FAIRFAX, Va. — It was the odd-looking locker handles that caught their eye.
As 58 migrants drown off Africa, a call to stop smugglers
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — The drowning of 58 migrants in the Atlantic Ocean off Mauritania sent despair through tiny Gambia on Thursday while some dema...
Mexican border town gripped by fear after gunbattle kills 22
VILLA UNION, Mexico — A small town near the U.S.-Mexico border began cleaning up Monday, gripped by fear after the killing of 22 people in a ferocious...
Ballroom dancers say immigration clampdown hurting business
ORANGE, Conn. — When no Americans replied to her multiple help-wanted ads for a dance instructor, Connecticut studio owner Chris Sabourin looked overs...
In ride-hail boom, livery cabs feel squeezed and forgotten
NEW YORK — As a livery cab driver in the Bronx for more than a decade, Orlando Lantigua knows some of his customers well. If they don’t have money to ...
NY team helping immigrant runners realize American dream
NEW YORK — A no-name entrant at this month’s New York City Marathon — literally, he didn’t even qualify to have his name printed on his bib — Girma Be...
Report: US lacked technology to track separated families
PHOENIX — The U.S. government separated thousands of families despite knowing it lacked the technology to document and track their whereabouts, accord...
On the Thanksgiving menu: Turkey, with a side of impeachment
CINCINNATI — Some people heading to Thanksgiving gatherings predict it’s not just the turkey that will get roasted.
US judge bars Trump’s health insurance rule for immigrants
PORTLAND, Ore. — A U.S. judge in Oregon on Tuesday granted a preliminary injunction blocking a Trump administration proclamation that would require im...
Bloomberg: US would benefit from more, not fewer, immigrants
PHOENIX — Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that the United States needs “an awful lot more immigrants rather than less.”
Religious freedom law plays key role in migrant-aid case
Religious liberty is often a high priority for conservatives, but last week’s acquittal of an Arizona man prosecuted for aiding migrants along the U.S...
A second chance on Chicago’s South Side
CHICAGO — With the echo of African drums, Fairfield Avenue comes alive.