[ad_1] Biden faces legal challenges over border strategy – CBS News Watch CBS News Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. The testimony came amid a legal battle over President Biden’s asylum plan and the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Texas for putting up floating barriers to stop migrants. CBS … Read more
[ad_1] White House extends temporary legal status for some migrants, denies it for others – CBS News Watch CBS News The Biden administration on Wednesday declined to offer nearly 400,000 Nicaraguan migrants a chance to live and work in the U.S. legally under the temporary protected status program. This comes after the White House announced … Read more
[ad_1] U.S. to admit nearly 40,000 migrants monthly via mobile app – CBS News Watch CBS News Homeland Security officials say the U.S. plans to expand the processing of asylum seekers along the southern border by admitting nearly 40,000 migrants at official crossings each month. The process, beginning this month, will allow migrants waiting in … Read more
[ad_1] 5/11: Prime Time with John Dickerson – CBS News Watch CBS News John Dickerson reports on the pending expiration of Title 42, manslaughter charges brought in the New York City subway chokehold death, and a massive Peloton recall. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. … Read more
[ad_1] Biden administration announces new immigration policies ahead of Title 42’s expiration – CBS News Watch CBS News The Biden administration is rolling out new immigration policies aimed at stemming the flow of migrants over the southern border, as the pandemic-era Title 42 restrictions expire tonight at midnight. CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez joins … Read more
[ad_1] The U.S. government announced Monday it would dispatch Border Patrol agents to apprehend migrants in El Paso, Texas who crossed the southern border surreptitiously, saying those taken into custody could be expelled, detained or placed in deportation proceedings. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said agents in El Paso would launch an operation Tuesday to … Read more
[ad_1] Police work at the scene after a driver crashed into several people in Brownsville, Texas, on May 7, 2023. Seven people died and as many as six others were injured Sunday in Texas when a driver crashed into them outside a facility housing migrants in the southern US state, police said. The sport utility … Read more
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: “The Trek: A Migrant Trail to America” premieres on April 16 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CNN’s new Sunday primetime series, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper. Darién Gap, Colombia and Panama (CNN) — There is always a crowd, but it can feel very lonely. To get closer to freedom, they have … Read more
[ad_1] CNN — Mexican authorities are investigating the head of the country’s immigration agency, in the wake of last month’s deadly fire in a migrant detention center that killed at least 38 people and left dozens injured. Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed on Wednesday that the Attorney General’s Office is probing Francisco Garduño, … Read more
[ad_1] CNN — The Italian Coast Guard was on Tuesday escorting two boats carrying 1,200 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, as part of a major operation in a region that has seen migrant arrivals spike in the past year. Emergency workers were racing to rescue a barge with 400 migrants onboard that had ran out … Read more