Immigration

Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it was following the orders of an immigration judge and the parents decided for the infants to go to Mexico with her.

The incoming Trump administration intends to rescind a long-standing policy that has prevented Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from arresting undocumented people at or near so-called sensitive locations.

Immigration officials say a Brazilian national was arrested earlier this month in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on a rape charge. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday in a press release that 21-year-old Luan Lucas De Sousa Goncalves had been in the agency’s custody since Dec. 2, a day after police in Plymouth arrested him. The Plymouth Independent reported last week that...

More changes to Massachusetts’ emergency shelter system went into effect on Tuesday, weeks after being announced.

Changes to Massachusetts’ emergency shelter system went into effect Tuesday. Some lawmakers are calling it a necessary step, but migrant advocates are voicing frustration and concern.

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A federal judge in North Dakota blocked a Biden administration rule that allowed DACA recipients to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.

Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and other high-level posts have been outsiders, often with Fox News appearances as key qualifications. But to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Trump went a different route.

United States and Guatemalan authorities have announced the arrest of six people charged with human smuggling linked to a semi-trailer truck crash in Mexico in 2021 that killed more than 50 migrants.

President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration and border team is filling out.

The transition team is preparing a list of countries to which migrants might be deported when their home countries refuse to accept them, three sources familiar with the plans told NBC News.

The state’s land commissioner bought a 1,402-acre plot on the Rio Grande and has offered it to the incoming Trump administration for immigrant detention centers.

Amid threats of new tariffs, the incoming U.S. president said Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum had “agreed to stop migration.”

Border Patrol agents are tasked with enforcing hotly contested immigration policies as many Americans at both ends of the political spectrum look askance at the border — and the agents. That’s taking a mounting toll, so the agency is training more among its ranks to become chaplains and provide spiritual care for their fellow agents on and off the job....

The city council in Somerville, Massachusetts, voted Tuesday to reconfirm its status as a sanctuary city ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term. Somerville has been a sanctuary city since 1987 and reconfirmed that status after Trump’s first election in 2016.

According to Donald Trump’s Agenda 47, the President-elect announced his plan to “sign an executive order on Day One to end automatic citizenship for children of illegal aliens.”

Confronting more than $1 billion in annual costs tied to Massachusetts’ emergency assistance family shelter system, the Healey administration rolled out a suite of new reforms Friday.

The attacks between the incoming Trump administration and Massachusetts officials over immigration policies, enforcement, and sanctuary cities continues to intensify. Massachusetts isn’t a sanctuary state, but it is the only right-to-shelter state, which is a draw for undocumented immigrants and a target for the incoming “border czar,” Tom Homan. “She’s not very smart,” Homan said of Boston Mayor Michelle Wu...

Two experts explain the origins of birthright citizenship and what it would take to change it in the US.

Jose Antonio Ibarra was convicted on Wednesday in a case that became focal to the immigration debate ahead of the presidential election.

Elected officials in Massachusetts are reacting to President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants by declaring a national emergency and using military assets. Trump campaigned on a promise of the largest mass deportation in U.S. history, and he says he intends to deliver on it. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey, who declared a state of emergency...