President Joseph R. Biden Jr. focused enforcement on the record numbers of people who had recently crossed the southern border and used expanded emergency powers under Covid to conduct four million deportations during his tenure. Mr. Trump conducted 1.9 million during his first term.
President Joe Biden is leaving office with several immigration-related milestones under his belt, including the lowest number of deportations in a single year, the highest number of border encounters in another and record fentanyl seizures.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman has canceled a Biden-era policy that blocked agents and officers from arresting unauthorized immigrants near “sensitive” locations such as hospitals,
The acting director, in an interview with NBC News on Wednesday, explained that the high number of migrants forced ICE to reassign staff to assist Customs and Border Protection (CBP). This had left ICE unable to fully focus on its primary responsibilities.
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday announced that it had rolled back Biden-era guidance that limited federal immigration arrests near sensitive locations, including schools, hospitals and churches.
The outgoing head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) said in an interview Wednesday that President Biden should have tightened border security sooner. “Do you think that
Biden fulfilled a promise to restore the refugee resettlement program but also cracked down on the right to asylum
When Donald Trump takes control of the White House on Monday, he will inherit something his voters hardly would have expected during a long campaign of berating outgoing President Joe Biden on immigration: a U.S.-Mexico border with the lowest number of illegal crossings in five years.
Trump has said he would like to deport everyone living illegally in the United States, though he has not set a specific numerical target. Who is most at risk?
The Justice Department has directed prosecutors to investigate any state and local officials who may stand in the way of the Trump administration's efforts
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday announced that it had rolled back Biden-era guidance that limited federal immigration arrests near sensitive locations, including schools, hospitals and churches.
Washington — President Trump invoked muscular presidential powers to begin a sweeping crackdown on immigration following his inauguration on Monday, tasking the military with border enforcement, moving to designate cartels and gangs as terrorist groups, shutting down asylum and refugee admissions and attempting to terminate birthright citizenship.