Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - A family of five claiming to be from Guatemala and a man stating he was from Peru, in pink shirt, walk through the desert ...

Republicans say President Joe Biden’s immigration policies are causing upticks in illegal immigration. The Biden administration argues that its policies work, because stops at the border decline after ...

On December 12, 2023, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it has received a sufficient number of H-1B petitions to reach the annual quota of 85,000 new H-1B filings for the ...

Despite hiring hundreds of new judges, the nation’s immigration court backlog under President Biden has reached a record level, ballooning to more than 3 million pending cases in November, according ...

The number of immigrants lacking permanent legal status in the United States hit an all-time high of 14 million people in 2023 amid a surge that followed the COVID-19 pandemic and policy shifts from ...

A girl looks on as migrants from Guatemala remove their shoelaces as they are initially processed after turning themselves over to authorities at the US-Mexico border May 12, 2021 in Yuma, Arizona.

The United States gained more than 1.6 million people in the past year, an increase driven by fewer deaths and pre-pandemic levels of immigration, according to data released this week by the U.S.

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In summer 2014, violence in Central America began to prompt migrants, many of them children, to move northward, seeking refuge in the United States. This was an unexpected challenge for the ...

Republican lawmakers are conditioning any aid to Ukraine and Israel — something the Biden administration has been asking for — on changes to the U.S. immigration system. President Joe Biden has agreed ...

As record-high numbers of undocumented migrants cross the United States-Mexico border illegally, one key question is how the U.S. got into this situation, and what lessons can be learned from how ...