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  • The Trump administration is transforming ICE leadership across the country in a major overhaul.North America

    A major ICE shake-up is reportedly underway affecting at least half of the agency’s top leadership positions

    By Rebecca Santana, Elliot Spagat, and others
  • FILE – Farm workers gather produce on Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Moorpark, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)Politics

    Trump curbs immigration enforcement at farms, meatpacking plants, hotels and restaurants

    By Aamer Madhani, Elliot Spagat, and others
  • FILE – A boy looks through a border wall separating Mexico from the United States, Nov. 26, 2024, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)Politics

    ICE has deported 270,000 people in the last 12 months, the highest number since 2014

    By Valerie Gonzalez, Elliot Spagat, and others
  • Tom Homan, left, is seen in a April 26, 2018 photo in East Point, Ga., and Stephen Miller is seen in a Oct. 9, 2024, photo in Reading, Pa.Politics

    Trump’s first 2 immigration policy job picks have defended family separation and ramped-up deportations

    By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press
  • Citizenship and Immigration ServicesFinance

    Immigration authorities claim victory over abusers of gifted H-1B visas as applications plunge nearly 40%

    By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press
  • Migrants board a bus to the airport Friday, Oct. 6, 2023, in San Diego. San Diego’s well-oiled system of migrant shelters is being tested like never before as U.S. Customs and Border Protection releases migrants to the streets of California’s second-largest city because shelters are full. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)Politics

    Border Patrol releases thousands of migrants on San Diego streets, creating ‘an unprecedented humanitarian crisis’

    By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press
  • US President Joe Biden speaks during an eventPolitics

    Biden administration will give temporary legal status to 472,000 Venezuelan migrants, making it easier for them to work

    By Rebecca Santana, Elliot Spagat, and others
  • U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services sealTech

    U.S. government has ‘serious concerns’ that some H-1B visa applicants are trying to game the system

    By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press
  • Cuban migrantPolitics

    ‘I did not see this coming’: Migrants fleeing persecution in Cuba are stunned by Biden’s new limits to asylum

    By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press
  • ROMA, TX – NOVEMBER 07: A U.S. Border Patrol air boat sits on the Rio Grande by the international bridge spanning the U.S.-Mexico border on November 7, 2018 in Roma, Texas. The area has one of the highest rates of illegal immigration and drug smuggling of the entire border. (Photo by John Moore—Getty Images)Politics

    Texas border town Roma becomes epicenter for migrant children seeking asylum

    By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press
  • US Mexico Border Patrol CoronavirusHealth

    US and Mexico to curb border travel in effort to control coronavirus

    By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press
  • Ken Cuccinelli, acting director for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, testifies during House Oversight subcommittee hearing.Politics

    Judge rules head of U.S. immigration agency was unlawfully named

    By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press
  • MEXICO-US-MIGRATION-CARAVANPolitics

    Court temporarily halts Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy

    By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press
  • US BorderPolitics

    40,000 Migrants Are Now Waiting at the U.S. Border

    By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press
  • President Donald Trump Meets With Pakastani Prime Minister Imran Khan At The White HousePolitics

    Trump Expands Fast-Track Deportation Authority Across U.S.

    By Elliot Spagat and The Associated Press