U.S. to require DNA samples from asylum-seekers in move called 'transparently xenophobic'
The Trump administration is planning to collect DNA samples from asylum-seekers and other migrants detained by immigration officials and will add the information to a massive FBI database used by law enforcement hunting for criminals, a Justice Department official said. The Justice Department on Monday ...
U.S. border apprehensions drop amid immigration crackdown, but year's tally still near 1 million
The number of migrants encountered at the southern U.S. border declined in September for the fourth straight month, Trump administration officials said Tuesday. Border officials came across about 52,000 migrants at the border last month — down about 65 percent from the peak in May ...
U.S. to increase DNA testing of migrants at border for FBI database, raising privacy concerns
The Trump administration is planning to expand the collection of DNA from migrants who cross U.S. borders, and to include the information in a massive criminal database operated by the FBI. The effort is separate from and much broader than the rapid DNA testing done ...
Democrats will try to block Trump's border wall funding maneuver
Senate Democrats are moving on two fronts to block President Donald Trump from using special emergency powers to transfer money from military base construction projects like new schools to pay for new fences along the U.S.-Mexico border. First, Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York ...
California judge restores nationwide block on Trump administration's asylum ban
A federal judge in California on Monday dealt a setback to a new Trump administration rule that sought to block almost all asylum applications at the border, ruling that an injunction against the rule should apply nationwide. The rule, unveiled on July 15, requires most ...
Single murder charge filed against Texas shooting suspect, with case treated as domestic terrorism
A single capital murder charge was filed on Sunday against the man accused of killing 20 people and wounding more than two dozen others at a Walmart store in El Paso, a mass shooting authorities are viewing as a case of domestic terrorism. Texas Gov. ...
U.S. hotels, unions push back against pressure to hold detained migrants
There's a new target in the clash over immigration: hotels. Advocacy groups and unions are pressuring Marriott, MGM and others not to house migrants who have been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. For decades, the U.S. government has occasionally detained migrants in hotels, and ...
Trump unveils border security and 'merit-based' immigration bill in Cabinet meeting
U.S. President Donald Trump presented a bill to his Cabinet on Tuesday aimed at boosting border security and overhauling the current immigration system to make it more merit-based, a senior administration official said. With U.S. lawmakers' August recess looming, the official did not give a ...
Shelters full, hopes dim for migrants in Mexico seeking U.S. asylum
The giggles of children at play are about the only pleasant thing about a dark, crowded and stifling warehouse in Mexico that is home to some 150 migrants waiting for the United States to process their asylum claims. Some of the adults sweep the floor ...
'Our lost son': Migrant boy still separated from parents after dad is deported
Fourteen months ago, Byron Xol was packed in a wooden crate by smugglers and shipped from Guatemala to the U.S., only to be grabbed immediately by border agents and ripped away from his father. His dad was deported. Byron remained, locked away with the thousands ...
In U.S.-Mexico border crisis, pregnant teens are especially vulnerable
As tales of wretchedness and overcrowding in government border detention facilities abound, one group of migrants is particularly vulnerable: teen moms and pregnant girls without parents of their own. Immigrant advocates and lawyers say the young mothers don't get special medical consideration while they're being ...
U.S. border agency's acting head, John Sanders, to leave amid outcry over child detentions
The acting head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection resigned Tuesday amid an uproar over the discovery of migrant children being held in pitiful conditions at one of the agency's stations in Texas. Acting Commissioner John Sanders' departure deepened the sense of crisis and added ...
