The Supreme Court on Monday again delayed acting on a request from the Biden administration to block a new Texas law empowering state and local police officers to arrest migrants who cross from Mexico without authorization. The law remains suspended in the meantime. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., the member of the court who oversees […]
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History is being made on the Rio Grande. Hundreds of thousands of migrants braved the journey across it last year, setting records and contributing to an urgent border crisis. As spectacle, it has been transfixing. Yet misconceptions abound. It’s as if the sight of a migrant scaling a wall or wading ashore is now a […]
Read MoreChicago Begins Evicting Migrants From Shelters, Citing Strain on Resources
Chicago officials on Sunday began evicting some migrants from shelters, joining other cities that have made similar moves to ease pressure on overstretched resources. The process is starting gradually. Out of the nearly 11,000 migrants living in 23 homeless shelters in Chicago, according to the Office of Emergency Management and Communications, a fraction — 34 […]
Read MoreAnkle Monitors and Curfews: Inside Biden’s New Tracking System for Migrant Families
On a recent evening in California, a woman named Sandra was at a birthday party with her 15-year-old son when she glanced at the clock. She started to panic: It was after 10 p.m. She had less than an hour to get home in time for an 11 p.m. curfew set by U.S. immigration authorities, […]
Read MorePolice Officers Used Stun Gun on Migrant Holding Toddler, Video Shows
New York City officials are investigating a confrontation at a city-run shelter in Queens where police officers struck and used a stun gun on a Venezuelan migrant while he was holding his 1-year-old son. Video footage obtained by The New York Times shows two police officers, who had been called to the shelter over a […]
Read MoreOn Senator Katie Britt’s Response to Biden’s State of the Union
On Thursday, Katie Britt, the junior senator from Alabama, delivered the Republican response to the State of the Union address. Her overwrought performance has been widely mocked; that’s OK for late-night TV, but I’m not going to join in that chorus. What I want to do instead is focus on the centerpiece of Britt’s remarks, […]
Read MoreJudge Upholds Biden Program Giving Some Immigrants Short-Term Legal Status
A federal judge on Friday allowed the Biden administration to keep in place a program that officials have used to give temporary legal status to some citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. The decision is a notable victory for the White House, which has faced criticism on immigration policy and has used the temporary […]
Read MoreRepublicans’ Dilemma on Mayorkas Impeachment: When to Take the Loss
After approving impeachment articles against Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security secretary, that are doomed in the Senate, House Republicans are facing a confounding question: How — and when — do you take a political loss in the least embarrassing way? It has been nearly a month since House Republicans impeached Mr. Mayorkas by a […]
Read MoreDonald Trump, Seeking Cash Infusion, Meets With Elon Musk
Donald Trump, who is urgently seeking a cash infusion to aid his presidential campaign, met on Sunday in Palm Beach, Fla., with Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest men, and a few wealthy Republican donors, according to three people briefed on the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private […]
Read MoreThe Biggest Issue on Americans’ Minds Is Also a Tough One to Agree On
I don’t know how to make sense of it. It just hurts my heart. It should not be that hard. Americans have argued about immigration for decades, often with anger, fear and racial resentment. But if the debate stands out today, it is for another sentiment coursing through the conversation: exhaustion. Decades of neglect and […]
Read MoreArizona Governor Vetoes Bill Allowing Police to Arrest Migrants
Gov. Katie Hobbs of Arizona vetoed a bill on Monday that would have authorized the state police to arrest undocumented immigrants. It was the first veto of the year from Ms. Hobbs, a Democrat who shot down a record number of bills passed by Arizona’s Republican-controlled Legislature in 2023 dealing with abortion, elections, L.G.B.T.Q. rights […]
Read MoreDonald Trump Is Running Against Dystopian Fantasies
President Biden recently went to New York to appear on “Late Night With Seth Myers.” On the show he was the same guy whom those of us who’ve spoken with him have seen: not a spring chicken, obviously, but lucid, well informed and moderately funny. The contrast couldn’t be greater with Donald Trump, whose ranting […]
Read MoreJudge Upholds Parts of Arizona Law Requiring Voters to Prove Citizenship
Republicans and Democrats alike claimed victory days after a federal judge issued a mixed decision in Arizona’s ongoing battles over voting rights and public trust in elections, upholding requirements for voters to prove their citizenship but limiting the ways that voters could be disqualified. The decision, issued last Thursday, dealt with two voting laws passed […]
Read More‘Io Capitano,’ Italy’s Oscar Nominee, Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story
Of all the offerings this Oscar season, one stands out: “Io Capitano.” A nominee for best international feature film, the film is a visually stunning and often harrowing account of the journey from West Africa to Europe. Based on many real-life stories, it shows the horrors of the perilous route across the Sahara Desert and […]
Read MoreHow the Biden-Trump Border Visits Revealed a Deeper Divide
Even the participants in President Biden and Donald J. Trump’s overlapping visits to Texas on Thursday seemed to sense there was something remarkable about their near encounter along the southern border. Rarely do the current and former commanders in chief arrive on the same scene on the same day to present such sharply different approaches […]
Read MoreBiden Challenges Trump to ‘Join Me’ in Tightening U.S.-Mexico Border
President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump made dueling visits to the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday, with Mr. Biden challenging his predecessor to “join me” in securing the country’s southern frontier and Mr. Trump blaming the president for lawlessness at the border. The remarks came at a moment of political peril for Mr. Biden, […]
Read MoreFederal Judge Blocks Sweeping Texas Immigration Law SB4
A federal court in Austin on Thursday blocked a Texas law that would allow state and local police officers to arrest migrants who cross from Mexico without authorization, siding with the federal government in a legal showdown over immigration enforcement. The ruling, by Judge David A. Ezra of the Western District of Texas, was a […]
Read MoreThe Politics Behind Trump and Biden’s Dueling Border Stops
Americans will get their first look at the likely presidential rematch coming this fall as President Biden and Donald J. Trump make dueling visits to the Texas border on Thursday, a rare convergence on the campaign trail that shows just how volatile and potent a political issue immigration has already become in the 2024 race. […]
Read MoreIn Eagle Pass, Texas, a Round of ‘Combat Golf’
At the center of a fierce legal battle over immigration enforcement lies a city park along the border in Eagle Pass, Texas. In January, Gov. Greg Abbott directed National Guard troops to take over the park, known as Shelby Park, to intercept migrants crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico. Now, at a place where residents […]
Read MoreHow China Broke One Man’s Dreams
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Read MoreICE Considers Slashing Detention Capacity Because of Budget Shortfall
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is considering a plan to reduce its detention capacity significantly after Republicans in Congress blocked a bill that would have provided the agency with more than $7 billion, officials said Wednesday. To stay within its current budget, ICE would need to cut detention levels by more than 10,000 spots within […]
Read MoreIn New York Win, Democrats Sense a Pivot on Immigration and Border Politics
A victory in a New York special election on Tuesday injected Democrats with fresh optimism that the party might have found some of the basic ingredients to neutralize immigration and the border as political issues, which party officials have privately seen as among their deepest areas of vulnerability in 2024. The success in the race […]
Read MoreIllegal Border Crossings Plummeted in January
The number of people crossing illegally into the United States from Mexico has dropped by 50 percent in the past month, authorities said on Tuesday, as President Biden comes under growing pressure from both parties over security at the border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said it had encountered migrants between ports of entry 124,220 […]
Read MoreHaley’s Hard-Line Immigration Record Runs Counter to Trump’s Attacks
Former President Donald J. Trump and his allies have spent weeks painting Nikki Haley as a bleeding heart on immigration as he seeks to dispatch her as his last remaining rival for the 2024 Republican nomination. In Mr. Trump’s telling, Ms. Haley, a former governor of South Carolina and the daughter of Indian immigrants, is […]
Read MoreDenver Strains Under Migrant Influx
In his first six months in office last summer, the mayor of Denver, Mike Johnston, managed to get more than 1,200 homeless people off the streets and into housing. That seemed like a fitting feat for a city that prides itself on its compassion. It would turn out to be a footnote compared with the […]
Read MoreMigrants Face Cold, Perilous Crossing From Canada to New York
In a dilapidated farm shed in New York’s rural North Country, the belongings of a migrant family who quietly took shelter one night were still visible months later: some clothing and children’s shoes, stiffened by the cold and a thin blanket of snow. Thomas Brassard recalled his surprise when he saw the family — a […]
Read MoreAt the Border, a Blending of Politics and Religion
Last Saturday, a crowd of several hundred people gathered in a grassy field near the bank of the Rio Grande in Quemado, Texas, for a rally in support of the state’s defiant stance on immigration. The event, which was held by the protest group Take Our Border Back, marked the final stop of a dayslong […]
Read MoreOn a Frozen Border, Finland Puzzles Over a ‘Russian Game’
Poking up through the snow drifts on the Finnish-Russian border lies a symbol of Moscow’s biggest provocation yet toward NATO’s newest member: a sprawling heap of broken bicycles. The battered bikes are sold for hundreds of dollars on the Russian side to asylum seekers from as far away as Syria and Somalia. They are then […]
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