Immigration

Texas hospitals who are enrolled in state health plans, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program will start asking patients’ immigration status in November. Florida has had a similar law since 2023.

ABC moderator David Muir corrected former President Donald Trump during the presidential debate on Tuesday night after Trump unsubstantiated claims about Haitian immigrants eating family pets in Springfield, Ohio.

Police in the Denver suburb of Aurora say a Venezuela street gang with a small presence in the city has not taken over a rundown apartment complex.

The attack from Abbott comes as the Trump campaign has sought to tie Harris to chaos surrounding migrants and the U.S. border.

An East Boston church that recently took in dozens of migrants who have nowhere else to go says they will soon have to leave. An East Boston church that recently took in dozens of migrants who have nowhere else to go says they will soon have to leave. Massachusetts has been dealing with a surge of migrants in need of…

A federal judge in Texas on Monday paused a Biden administration policy that would give spouses of U.S. citizens legal status without having to first leave the country, dealing at least a temporary setback to one of the biggest presidential actions to ease a path to citizenship in years.

Sixteen Republican-led states are suing to end a federal program that could potentially give nearly half a million immigrants without legal status who are married to U.S. citizens a path to citizenship.

The number of buses transporting migrants out of Texas has dropped sharply since President Joe Biden’s executive action limiting asylum claims went into effect on June 4, NBC News reports.

The application period opened Monday for a new federal immigration program that allows undocumented spouses to remain in the U.S. as they apply for legal status.

Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in East Boston is currently housing 35 migrants who have nowhere to go due to the capacity crisis in Massachusetts emergency shelters

A simple plate of food — intended to be a comforting taste of home for Haitian migrants in a Massachusetts shelter — led to something much more for one man seeking a better life in the Bay State. Paul Richelle, a 41-year-old originally from Haiti, came to the United States by way of Chile, and a long journey though South…

Vice President Kamala Harris was never the “border czar,” as critics claim. She was assigned to tackle the “root causes” of migration from three Central American nations — El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras — that were responsible for a large chunk of border-crossers, administration officials said.

Fifteen states have sued the Biden administration over a rule that is expected to allow 100,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. illegally as children to enroll next year in the federal Affordable Care Act’s health insurance.

The day before dozens of families are scheduled to be evicted from Massachusetts shelters, protestors plan to hold a vigil at the State House Thursday over new restrictions Gov. Maura Healey made to the family shelter system. Healey’s latest shelter policies limit families to spending a maximum of five business days at overflow sites and makes those people ineligible...

Hundreds of migrants from around a dozen countries have left from Mexico’s southern border on foot in an attempt to make it to the U.S. border.

The situation for migrants seeking a roof over their head seems to be entering a new dire phase in Massachusetts. With shelters at capacity and Logan International Airport now off limits as a place to sleep at night, some migrants and their families are ending up in the street. Those staying at the Family Welcome Center (FWC) day shelter in…

Arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico plunged 29% in June to the lowest month of Joe Biden’s presidency.

The United States is going to pay for flights and offer other help to Panama to remove migrants.

Federal immigration officials on Friday extended a legal status for Haitian immigrants — who make up the majority of the population of new arrivals into Massachusetts — for an additional 18 months. Temporary Protected Status is an immigration classification granted by the Department of Homeland Security to foreign-born individuals who are unable to return home safely due to conditions like…

Migrant families who sought out shelter at Logan International Airport will no longer be allowed to sleep there, the Healey-Driscoll administration announced Friday as it unveiled new plans to manage the overtaxed emergency shelter system. Massachusetts’ Emergency Assistance shelter system has been at its capacity of 7,500 families for months, with hundreds of others on the waitlist. Families with nowhere…