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If President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to deport millions of immigrants, it could upend the economies of states where farming and other food-related industries are crucial — and where labor shortages abound. Immigrants make up about two-thirds of the nation’s crop farmworkers, according to the U.S. Department …

Jimmy Williams President-elect Donald Trump said Thursday that one of his first priorities upon taking office in January will be to implement stricter border security measures and begin mass deportations, citing a “mandate to bring common sense” to immigration policies. Trump’s promises to secure the border were central to his …

Jimmy Williams Vice President Kamala Harris announced new border restrictions during a visit to the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday, positioning herself as tougher on immigration than the Biden administration and directly challenging Republican nominee Donald Trump. Harris’s proposal includes stricter thresholds for illegal border crossings and a longer timeframe to …

Jimmy Williams A federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas on Monday temporarily blocked a Biden administration program that allowed undocumented immigrants married to U.S. citizens to apply for green cards without leaving the U.S. The program, titled Keeping Families Together, provided a form of legal relief known as …

Vice President Kamala Harris has recently taken a proactive stance on immigration, a topic Democrats have traditionally left to Republicans. As she prepares to tour battleground states with her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Harris is highlighting her past efforts against transnational gangs and drug traffickers as California’s attorney …

Jimmy Williams President Joe Biden is set to unveil a significant new immigration policy on Tuesday that will protect tens of thousands of people married to U.S. citizens from deportation. This move, seen as a strategic election-year action, has been a long-standing demand by many Democrats. At a White House …

Ariana Figueroa, Indiana Capital Chronicle President Joe Biden on Tuesday issued an executive order that will allow him to partially suspend asylum requests at the U.S.-Mexico border when daily unauthorized crossings reach a threshold of 2,500 migrants. “I’ve come here today to do what Republicans in Congress refuse to do, take the …

Jimmy Williams Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is pushing for a test vote on border security and immigration legislation this week. The effort follows a previously blocked attempt in February, which included aid to Israel and Ukraine, but was derailed by opposition from former President Donald Trump. In a letter …

Zachary Roth With polls showing unauthorized immigration as Republicans’ best issue for the fall, the GOP is looking to raise the alarm about voting by non-citizens and the undocumented. The multi-pronged effort has been advanced in congressional legislation, public statements by top election officials and U.S. senators, plans produced by …

Alejandro Serrano and Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune A federal appeals court late Tuesday night stopped a state law allowing Texas police to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border — hours after the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed it to go into effect. Earlier in the …

Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune A federal judge in Texas rejected a lawsuit on Friday filed by Attorney General Ken Paxton against a Biden administration immigration program that allows each year up to 360,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to legally migrate to the U.S. U.S. District …

Ariana Figueroa, Georgia Recorder President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon paid competing visits to the nation’s southern border, where Biden called on Congress to reconsider a bipartisan border security deal that Republicans tanked at Trump’s direction. Biden traveled to Brownsville, Texas, while Trump journeyed to …

Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune A federal judge in Austin on Thursday halted a new state law that would allow Texas police to arrest people suspected of crossing the Texas-Mexico border illegally. The law, Senate Bill 4, was scheduled to take effect Tuesday. U.S. District Judge David Ezra issued …

Robert Downen and Uriel J. García, The Texas Tribune Daniel Miller felt encouraged last week, as fears of a new civil war trended online and a coalition of powerful Republicans coalesced behind Gov. Greg Abbott’s standoff with the Biden administration. As the longtime leader of Texas’ unlikely secessionist movement, Miller …

Jimmy Williams President Joe Biden has made a strong commitment to bring a halt to border crossings when the system is “overwhelmed,” contingent on Congress passing bipartisan immigration legislation that grants him emergency authority. In a statement, Biden endorsed an emerging immigration deal in the Senate, emphasizing it as the …