Local residents and a Chicago official have voiced their opposition to city plans to transform a neighborhood field house into a shelter for migrants. They argue that this move could potentially displace a youth football team.
Nearly three dozen asylum seekers from Russia have been secretly allowed to cross into the U.S. from Mexico following their country's invasion of Ukraine.
With the possibility of reopening the southern border to asylum seekers, the U.S. government is urging Latin American allies to tighten immigration controls.
After spending six days sailing from Haiti in hopes of reaching the U.S., 104 Haitian migrants were intercepted by the Coast Guard in Florida waters on Sunday.
The Supreme Court has rejected the Biden administration's request to put a hold on a lower court decision ordering to revive the "Remain in Mexico" policy.
Asylum seekers in the U.S. could soon use a mobile phone to apply for asylum as the Biden administration plans to expand the online asylum registration system.
The United States on Monday abruptly canceled plans to bring asylum seekers into Texas at two ports of entry, resulting in hopes of quick U.S. entry fading for hundreds of immigrants waiting for months in Mexico under a Trump-era policy that President Joe Biden promised to rescind.
First batch of asylum seekers who waited in Mexico, admitted by the U.S. borderland officials (Photo : Mario Tama) People who are seeking asylum in the United States wait in line to collect flyers explaining updated asylum policies outside the El Chaparral border crossing on February 19, 2021 in Tijuana, Mexico.
President Joe Biden's administration announced on Friday that they would start allowing thousands of asylum-seekers, particularly migrants who have been waiting in Mexico for their next immigration court hearings, to enter the U.S. while their cases proceed.
Over two thousand asylum seekers are living in the encampment at the U.S.-Mexico border in Matamoros, Mexico while they wait for their court hearing in the United States.
The Department of Homeland Security, on Sunday, announced it has rescheduled hearings for asylum seekers and suspended temporarily a policy requiring some of them to travel to entry ports in Mexico amid COVID-19 crisis.
Remain in Mexico policy leads to grant only less than 1% of the asylum seekers. (Photo : Reuters) The Trump administration has made more restrictive measures to reduce the number of legal and illegal immigrants in the country.
Thousands of Mexican migrants seeking for American asylum stayed in the borders. (Photo : Reuters) The number of Mexican migrants who stayed in Cuidad, Juarez and other border cities have increased in the past few months due to violence.
In a divided decision Maine's Cumberland County Superior Court issued its decision on a case concerning General Assistance for immigrants, including asylum seekers. Both sides of the legal fight have claimed victory.
