asylum-seekers

A coalition of human rights groups says migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. are being set up for rejection at a privately run detention center in New Mexico.

The Biden administration Thursday will begin denying asylum to migrants who arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border without first applying online or seeking protection in a country they passed through. It marks a fundamental shift in post-pandemic immigration policy known as Title 42.

An appeals court rejected efforts to keep in place pandemic-related restrictions on immigrants seeking asylum.

A coalition of conservative-leaning states is trying to keep in place a Trump-era public health rule that allows many asylum seekers to be turned away at the southern U.S. border.

More than 1.74 million migrants were stopped at the southwest border through June, breaking the record set through all of the last fiscal year.

U.S. authorities stopped asylum-seekers more than 234,000 times in April, one of the highest marks in decades as the Biden administration prepares to lift pandemic-era restrictions on claiming asylum.

A federal judge is set to hear arguments on whether the Biden administration can end pandemic-related restrictions on seeking asylum May 23.

The number of migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border has surged in recent weeks as the U.S. prepares for even larger numbers with the expected lifting of a pandemic-era order that turned away asylum seekers.

Former Trump administration officials are pressing Republican border governors to declare an “invasion” along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Arizona, Louisiana and Missouri have sued President Joe Biden’s administration to prevent federal officials from ending a public health rule that allows many asylum seekers to be turned away at the southern U.S. border.