California Supreme Court denies bid to block payments to immigrants

The program offers each adult $500 to be distributed through nonprofit groups in an effort to protect recipients from providing personal information that might cost them other benefits or increase their danger of being deported.

Trump's tweet to suspend immigration creates concern for Florida's immigrant population

Central Florida's immigrants are concerned over a tweet from President Trump to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Coronavirus quarantine is becoming catastrophic for undocumented immigrants

Marcos Saul Aurora Gonzalez is undocumented and therefore, ineligible for any of the federal stimulus money, up to $1,200 per adult,  that is supposed to be arriving soon to roughly 60 million Americans.

Pregnant teen dies after falling over border wall

A 19-year-old Guatemala woman, who was 8-months pregnant, died after falling over a section of the border barrier near El Paso.

Appeals court temporarily halts Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy

A federal appeals court temporarily halted a major Trump administration policy to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts.

Greyhound to stop allowing immigration checks on buses

Greyhound said it would provide its drivers and bus station employees updated training regarding the new policy, and that it would place stickers on all its buses clearly stating that it does not consent to the searches.

Homeland Security waives contracting laws for border wall

The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will waive federal contracting laws to speed construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Officials: 3 die in California after illegally crossing border

Three women died and two other people were detained after federal agents were called to rescue a group who had crossed the border from Mexico illegally and got lost in frigid weather near a Southern California mountain, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol said.

Florida lawmakers seek changes for e-verify proposal

The controversial proposal would mandate all public and private employers use E-Verify, a federal program that checks the legal eligibility of new workers.

House OKs bill letting undocumented immigrants seek damages from employers

Like California's controversial Assembly Bill 5, one of the PRO Act's stated purposes is to end worker misclassification and stop employers from denying workers benefits by doing so. It passed in a 224-194 vote, mostly along party lines.

Trump curbs immigrants from 6 countries in election-year push

The Trump administration announced Friday that it was restricting immigrants from six additional countries that officials said failed to meet minimum security standards.

Trump administration imposes visa rules for pregnant women on 'birth tourism'

The rules printed in the Federal Register on Thursday say applicants will be denied tourist visas if they're determined by consular officers to be traveling to the U.S. primarily to give birth.

ICE announces human trafficking awareness campaigns in Tampa, Atlanta

January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month, so the ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) branches in Tampa and Atlanta launched awareness outreach campaigns in their communities.

Department of Homeland Security seeks Pentagon funds for 270 miles of border wall

Defense officials say the Department of Homeland Security has asked the Pentagon to fund the construction of 270 miles of border wall this year as part of a counter-drug effort.

Judge refuses to second-guess family separations at border

A U.S. judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration is operating within its authority when separating families stopped at the Mexico border, rejecting arguments that it was quietly returning to widespread practices that drew international condemnation.

Texas governor to reject new refugees, first state to do so under Trump administration

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the state will reject the resettlement of new refugees, becoming the first state known to do so under a recent Trump administration order.