Immigration

A staff member walks past a message to students that hangs on the wall at Place Bridge Academy, May 20, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/Rebecca Slezak)

They crossed the border for better schools. Now, some families are leaving the US

Even as immigrants in the U.S. avoid going out in public, terrified of encountering immigration authorities, families across the country are mostly sending their children to school — but that’s not to say they feel safe in this country.
 
Advocates for migrant rights hold signs outside the South Florida office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Enforcement and Removal Operations, following a press conference with Gov. Ron DeSantis on immigration enforcement, Thursday, May 1, 2025, in Miramar, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

The revival of an old program delegates Trump immigration enforcement to local police

 
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a news conference, April 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

US must keep control of migrants sent to South Sudan in case removals were unlawful, judge rules

 
Wilmer Escaray talks about his concerns about the future of his employees and customers during an interview inside a franchise of "Sabor Venezolano," one of 18 businesses he owns which employ scores of Venezuelan immigrants with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) who are now potentially exposed to deportation, in Doral, Fla., Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

US business owners are confused about Venezuelan employees with temporary status

 
Dubuque County Sheriff Joe Kennedy addresses his decision to not sign an agreement with U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement that grants local law enforcement authority to perform certain immigration functions, Monday, May 19, 2025, in Dubuque, Iowa. (Benjamin Fisher/Telegraph Herald via AP)

Awaiting Trump’s ‘sanctuary’ list, a sheriff who rejected pact with ICE warns of possible shaming

 

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Nicolás Maduro reacts to the U.S. decision to end temporary protection to Venezuelan immigrants

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday criticized the U.S. Supreme Court decision that allowed President Donald Trump to strip legal protections from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants.
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US immigration officials appear to have begun deporting migrants from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan, attorneys say

 
Activist Helene Villalonga wears a tee-shirt calling for Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelans during a press conference to denounce changes to the protections that shielded hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans from deportation, Feb. 3, 2025, in Doral, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Trump wants to end temporary protection for over a million immigrants. What does that mean?

 
Migrants gather in an area near the Libyan-Tunisia border, as Libyan security forces and Libyan Red Cross workers distribute food aid to them on Sunday, July 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Yousef Murad, file)

The EU is weighing whether to deport migrants to countries they have no obvious connection to

 
President Donald Trump, center, is joined by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., left, as he departs the Capitol following a meeting with the House Republican Conference, Tuesday, May 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

The Latest: US authorities appear to have begun deporting migrants to South Sudan, attorneys say

 
A Honduran migrant who returned voluntarily from the United States walks after arriving at Ramon Villeda Morales Airport in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Monday, May 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Delmer Martinez)

US sends 68 migrants back to Honduras and Colombia in first voluntary deportation

 
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio poses in his private office in Fountain Hills, Ariz., Aug. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Taxpayers in metro Phoenix still footing the bill for Joe Arpaio’s immigration crackdowns

 
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks during the McIntyre-Shaheen 100 Club Dinner, Sunday April 27, 2025, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha, file)

Illinois mulls ending a health program for some immigrants living in the US illegally

 
The Supreme Court is pictured, Jan. 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Supreme Court allows Trump to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans who risk deportation

 
A deportation officer with Enforcement and Removal Operations in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's New York City field office conducts a brief before an early morning operation, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)

DHS asks for 20,000 National Guard troops for immigration roundups, Pentagon reviewing request

 
The Supreme Court at sunset in Washington, Feb. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to resume quick deportations of Venezuelans under 18th-century law

 
Army soldiers look at the border wall next to a surveillance vehicle during the visit to the U.S. and Mexico border by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in Sunland Park, N.M., Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)

Judges dismiss national security charges against immigrants who enter new militarized zone at border

 
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan leaves the federal courthouse after a hearing Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, file)

Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man dodge immigration agents seeks donations for attorneys

 
A man takes an image with his phone next to where the border wall separating Mexico and the United States reaches the Pacific Ocean Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Trump suspends asylum system, leaving immigrants to face an uncertain future

 
Hannah Liu, 26, of Washington, holds up a sign in support of birthright citizenship, Thursday, May 15, 2025, outside of the Supreme Court in Washington. "This is enshrined in the Constitution. My parents are Chinese immigrants," says Liu. "They came here on temporary visas so I derive my citizenship through birthright." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

FACT FOCUS: Trump claims the US is the only country with birthright citizenship. It’s not

 
Prisoners look out of their cell as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tours the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Senate rejects Democratic measure to force more transparency on deportations to El Salvador

 
Protesters outside of Alabama's capitol opposing a slate of bills introduced by the Republican legislature that would crack down on immigration.Montgomery, Ala., March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Safiyah Riddle)

More Republicans push to criminalize bringing immigrants in the US illegally across state lines

 
German police officers carry out checks at the border crossing coming from Austria near Kiefersfelden, Germany, Thursday, May 15, 2025 as top security official says that the number of people turned back at the country’s borders increased by nearly half in the new government’s first week in office after it stepped up police checks at its frontiers. (Peter Kneffel/dpa via AP)

45% more people rejected at German border after checks were stepped up, minister says

 
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, is welcomed by Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama at the Kryeministria in Tirana, Albania, Thursday May 15, 2025. (Leon Neal/Pool via AP)

Britain says it’s talking with some countries to set up migrant return hubs

 
The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

In their words: What judges have said about birthright citizenship and nationwide injunctions

 
Hannah Liu, 26, of Washington, holds up a sign in support of birthright citizenship, Thursday, May 15, 2025, outside of the Supreme Court in Washington. "This is enshrined in the Constitution. My parents are Chinese immigrants," says Liu. "They came here on temporary visas so I derive my citizenship through birthright." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Supreme Court could block Trump’s birthright citizenship order but limit nationwide injunctions

 
Mayor Ras Baraka speaks to supporters and media after a court appearance in Newark, N.J., Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Newark Mayor Ras Baraka says officials fingerprinting him second time tried to ‘humiliate’ him

 
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan leaves the federal courthouse after a hearing Thursday, May 15, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Andy Manis)

Wisconsin judge pleads not guilty to helping a man evade federal immigration agents

 
Argentina's President Javier Milei greets supporters during the closing campaign rally for Manuel Adorni, a contender in the upcoming elections for the Buenos Aires city legislature, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Argentina orders immigration crackdown with new decree to ‘make Argentina great again’

 
This undated photo provided by Polina Pugacheva in April 2025 shows Kseniia Petrova, a Russian-born scientist who was a researcher at Harvard University. (Polina Pugacheva via AP, File)

Harvard researcher charged with trying to smuggle frog embryos into United States

 
Army soldiers look at the border wall next to a surveillance vehicle during the visit to the U.S. and Mexico border by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in Sunland Park, N.M., Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, File)

New militarized border zone spurs national security charges against hundreds of immigrants

 
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., speaks with an officer demanding she be let into the ICE Detention office after the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Friday, May 9, 2025, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis)

ICE head recognizes Congress’ role in visiting detention facilities, even unannounced

 
Judge Hannah Dugan poses for a photo in Milwaukee in 2016. (Lee Matz/Milwaukee Independent via AP, File)

Wisconsin judge argues prosecutors can’t charge her with helping a man evade immigration agents

 
In this photo released by the Miraflores press office, first lady Cilia Flores, second from left, and Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, left, watch as 2-year-old Maikelys Espinoza is reunited with her mother Yorely Escarleth Bernal Inciarte at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, May 14, 2025. The U.S. deported Bernal to Venezuela on April 25 and sent the child's father to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador in March. (Zurimar Campos/Miraflores press office via AP)

2-year-old girl reunites with her mother in Venezuela after US deportation

 
Money sent home to Cajola, Guatemala, from the U.S. paid for the construction of dozens of homes, as shown, Nov. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Megan Janetsky)

Funds from migrants sent back home help fuel some towns’ economies. A GOP plan targets that

 
The Supreme Court at sunset in Washington, Feb. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

A pregnant Cuban emigre worries about her baby’s citizenship as Supreme Court weighs a Trump order

 
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