Chris Johnson

Sen. Rand Paul renewed his skepticism Tuesday of a U.S.-Mexico border wall, asserting that the Trump administration has not justified the $46 billion for construction included in the pending House budget reconciliation package. The Kentucky Republican, who chairs the Senate […]

Senate Republicans on Thursday stopped a measure that sought to obtain more information on the human rights practices at the prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration has deported migrants who are alleged gang members. The chamber, in a

Part of the House budget reconciliation proposal includes a steep increase in fees throughout the immigration system, such as a new $1,000 application fee for asylum claims and a new $8,500 fee to sponsor an unaccompanied minor migrant. House Judiciary

A coalition of 20 states filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration Tuesday seeking to stop policies to withhold grants for transportation and homeland security in jurisdictions that do not cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. California Attorney General Rob Bonta

The Trump administration has resisted providing more information about the migrants it flew out of the country under a sweeping new claim of authority it says can’t be questioned by a judge, a combination that has raised alarms among legal

The Trump administration told a federal judge Tuesday that it should not have to provide information on the timing of flights that carried migrants for deportation, amid an accusation the executive branch defied a court order to halt the planes.

President Donald Trump’s legal maneuver to invoke a 1798 law to deport certain alleged Venezuelan gang members in the United States raised questions about whether he defied a court order that sought to temporarily pause those removals. Trump announced a

President Donald Trump has said he does not need Congress to create so-called gold cards to offer foreign nationals a path to citizenship at the price of $5 million, but immigration policy experts and some Republican lawmakers cast doubt that

Congress for years backed additional immigration judges to address a yearslong backlog of deportation and asylum cases, but the sharply different views of two of the newest members of the Senate Homeland Security panel show a consensus on that approach

The Department of Homeland Security has started signing agreements with local law enforcement agencies to assist with federal immigration operations, with a nominee for a top post at the department telling senators Tuesday it would be a “major initiative.” The