TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Over the course of two weeks, President Joe Biden has imposed significant restrictions on immigrants seeking asylum in the U.S. while also offering potential citizenship to hundreds of thousands of people without legal status already living in the country. The tandem actions — the first to help immigrants illegally in the […]
Republicans claim that their election-year rhetoric about immigration has a new audience in Black communities. North Charleston’s newfound racial complexity tests that claim. The working-class city of about 120,000 people is one of the most strongly Democratic in South Carolina, more so even than Charleston, its larger, storied neighbor to its south. It has also […]
(Bloomberg) — Ecuador temporarily stopped a visa agreement with China, citing “a worrying increase in migratory flows from” the Asian nation in recent months. Most Read from Bloomberg The Foreign Affairs Ministry of the South American nation said in a statement Tuesday that the arrivals either stayed “in an irregular immigration situation or would have […]
BALTIMORE — In the aftermath of Rachel Morin’s killing, Maryland congressional lawmakers called America’s immigration system “broken,” but Republicans blamed President Joe Biden while Democrats said the GOP squandered an opportunity to address serious border concerns. In Maryland and beyond, the murder of Morin, a Bel Air mother, intensified a hot-button political issue in an […]
WASHINGTON — In the summer before a tough reelection contest in 2012, President Barack Obama was losing support from Latino voters who called him “deporter in chief.” Then he signed a sweeping executive order to shield hundreds of thousands of young migrants from deportation. Luis V. Gutiérrez, an Illinois Democrat and former congressman, recalled that […]
Under a new Biden administrative plan, announced Tuesday, people without legal status who are married to U.S. citizens will be able to apply for citizenship without first leaving the country. There are some restrictions. For example, only those who have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years as of Monday and who are […]
President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled major new actions that his aides and allies hope will galvanize voters disillusioned with the rightward drift of his approach to immigration. But in issuing a new policy granting legal protections to undocumented spouses and children of American citizens, the president was trying to lure Donald Trump into a […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden announced a new program Tuesday that would provide a path to citizenship to some 500,000 people who have been in the country for a decade or more, and are married to United States citizens. The election-year announcement was quickly denounced by his Republican opponent Donald Trump. It was […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The federal government has long had sole authority over immigration policy in the United States, but several Republican-led states have continued to push for a role in enforcing regulations out of frustration with current policy and as a way to criticize Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden. With polling showing Americans […]
The executive action President Biden announced Tuesday is his boldest move on immigration ever. The new policy will protect close to half a million undocumented spouses of American citizens from deportation and help provide work permits for eligible Dreamers (undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children). The overdue change is a new […]
President Joe Biden’s new immigration policy protects some 500,000 people who are married to U.S. citizens from deportation and gives them a pathway to citizenship. The election-year move comes just two weeks after Biden imposed a major crackdown at the U.S.-Mexico border, cutting off access to asylum for people who crossed into the United States […]
WASHINGTON — Large numbers of migrant apprehensions at the southern border have vaulted immigration and border security onto the list of top concerns for voters. Public polling shows support for former President Donald Trump’s hard-line approach, and President Joe Biden, who made overturning Trump’s immigration agenda part of his platform in 2020, has recently reversed […]