In August 2021, the United States evacuated more than 76,000 Afghans who had aided the U.S. and the international community in their Afghanistan mission.

The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday it will hear a case involving a scam that falsely promoted adult adoptions as a path to U.S. citizenship.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against immigrants who are seeking their release from long periods of detention while they fight deportation orders.

A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that thousands of people living in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to become permanent residents.

The Justice Department on Tuesday rescinded a Trump-era memo that established a "zero tolerance" enforcement policy for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, which resulted in thousands of family separations.

A federal court next week is expected to consider whether to invalidate a program that shields from deportation immigrants brought to the United States as children, potentially creating complications for the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden.

A federal judge in Chicago struck down a key immigration rule Monday that would deny green cards to immigrants who use food stamps or other public benefits, a blow to the Trump administration on the eve of the election.

The biggest cases of the Supreme Court term so far have a surprising common thread.

By ASTRID GALVAN The Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a policy that protects immigrants who were brought to the country as children and allows them to work. The court on Thursday ruled President Donald Trump hadn’t taken proper steps to end the policy, which President Barack Obama established in 2012. Trump attempted to end the Deferred ...

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's bid to throw out a California immigrant-sanctuary law that restricts local police cooperation with federal immigration authorities.

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to put in place a policy connecting the use of public benefits with whether immigrants could become permanent residents.

In a locked, guarded courtroom in a compound surrounded by razor wire, Immigration Judge Jerome Rothschild waits — and stalls.

Tucked in a windowless room of Chicago's immigration court, one of the nation's largest legal-advocacy groups for immigrants runs a free help desk.

Milwaukee police arrested a man suspected of throwing battery acid on a Hispanic man who says his attacker asked him, "why did you come here and invade my country?"

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee upended the rules Thursday to advance a controversial immigration bill as chairman Lindsey Graham muscled through a detention bill that Democrats oppose. It’s one last battle, led by a top ally of President Donald Trump, before senators break for a long August recess and the ...

The Supreme Court will decide whether President Donald Trump can end an Obama administration program shielding young immigrants from deportation.

A divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday against a group of immigrants in a case about the government's power to detain them after they've committed crimes but finished their sentences.

The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office will no longer share information about people detained in the jail with federal immigration officials.

A network of U.S. cities and counties paying for lawyers to represent immigrants facing deportation in the wake of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown is headed for an expansion.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that "obviously" President Donald Trump can't end the constitutional right of birthright citizenship with an executive order, while saying he agrees with the president that "unchecked illegal immigration" needs to be dealt with.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says deportation officers arrested 83 people in 14 Wisconsin counties over four days ending on Monday.

A person accused of a crime in the United States has a constitutional right to a speedy trial. But if you find yourself waiting for a hearing at the nondescript office building that serves as the federal immigration court in Bloomington, justice may not be swift.

A St. Paul baking company that closed down after an immigration audit is among nearly three dozen Minnesota businesses that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has targeted since President Donald Trump took office.

The American Civil Liberties Union sued the U.S. government Tuesday over its efforts to prevent immigrants from seeking asylum due to domestic and gang violence in their home countries.

A 40-year-old southern Arizona immigration and criminal defense lawyer faces federal charges of mail fraud and forgery of judicial signatures.

Inside a small courtroom, a half-dozen immigrant teens and their families sat anxiously on wooden benches awaiting their immigration court hearing.

President Donald Trump's hard-line stance on immigration took an unconstitutional turn on Sunday.

President Donald Trump's reversal of a policy separating migrant families at the Mexico border sparked confusion over how the new guidelines will play out and deep concern that the changes don't go far enough, allowing children to still be held in detention even if they remain with their families.

The U.S. government agency that oversees immigration applications is launching an office that will focus on identifying Americans who are suspected of cheating to get their citizenship and seek to strip them of it.

Civil-rights lawyers sued the U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday to try to stop plans to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, calling it an unconstitutional attempt to discriminate against immigrants.