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Facilities for migrant children are improving but need work, court monitor says
The U.S. still separates some migrant children from their parents while holding them after they cross the border despite broad improvements at detention centers in Texas.
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Trump plans to scrap policy restricting ICE arrests at churches, schools and hospitals
The incoming Trump administration intends to rescind a long-standing policy that has prevented Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from arresting undocumented people at or near so-called sensitive locations.
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Federal judge blocks Obamacare coverage for DACA recipients in 19 states
A federal judge in North Dakota blocked a Biden administration rule that allowed DACA recipients to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.
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Trump pick to head ICE is agency vet who will be able to start deportation effort on day one
Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and other high-level posts have been outsiders, often with Fox News appearances as key qualifications. But to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Trump went a different route.
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6 Guatemalans arrested and charged with human smuggling in 2021 Mexico bus crash that killed dozens
United States and Guatemalan authorities have announced the arrest of six people charged with human smuggling linked to a semi-trailer truck crash in Mexico in 2021 that killed more than 50 migrants.
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Trump taps forceful ally of hard-line immigration policies to head Customs and Border Protection
President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration and border team is filling out.
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Incoming Trump administration plans to deport some migrants to countries other than their own
The transition team is preparing a list of countries to which migrants might be deported when their home countries refuse to accept them, three sources familiar with the plans told NBC News.
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Texas is offering land for Trump mass deportation facilities
The state’s land commissioner bought a 1,402-acre plot on the Rio Grande and has offered it to the incoming Trump administration for immigrant detention centers.
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DACA recipients worry their protection from deportation won't last another Trump term
Recipients of the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are bracing for potential challenges to their status in the country.
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First Thanksgiving for newly arrived refugee families in the U.S.
This holiday, one of the most American of them all, a Dallas church has a decidedly international flavor. A meal prepared for hundreds of families, many of whom are refugees from around the globe, is creating Thanksgiving memories for the first time. NBC 5’s David Goins has more.
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A first Thanksgiving for newly arrived refugee families in the U.S.
The most American of holidays has a decidedly international flavor at one Dallas church.
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Trump says Mexico's president promised to close the border. She begs to differ.
Amid threats of new tariffs, the incoming U.S. president said Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum had “agreed to stop migration.”
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Who are the Border Patrol chaplains? And why does the agency need more of them now?
Border Patrol agents are tasked with enforcing hotly contested immigration policies as many Americans at both ends of the political spectrum look askance at the border — and the agents. That’s taking a mounting toll, so the agency is training more among its ranks to become chaplains and provide spiritual care for their fellow agents on and off the job....
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What is birthright citizenship, and what would it take for Trump to end it?
According to Donald Trump’s Agenda 47, the President-elect announced his plan to “sign an executive order on Day One to end automatic citizenship for children of illegal aliens.”
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What is birthright citizenship?
Two experts explain the origins of birthright citizenship and what it would take to change it in the US.
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Texas GLO offers Trump 1,400 acres along border for mass deportation facilities
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham is offering President-elect Donald Trump a 1,400-acre parcel of rural ranchland along the U.S.-Mexico border to use as a staging area for potential mass deportations.
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Jose Ibarra found guilty of murdering Georgia nursing student Laken Riley
Jose Antonio Ibarra was convicted on Wednesday in a case that became focal to the immigration debate ahead of the presidential election.
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Trump plans to make good on campaign promise around mass deportations
President-elect Donald Trump previewed one of his first actions once he takes office in January and it will have a big impact here in Texas. NBC 5 political reporter Phil Prazan reports Trump plans to call a national emergency for a mass deportation program.
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Incoming Trump admin is eyeing new immigrant detention centers near major US cities
The plan would also include restarting the policy of detaining parents with their children, known as family detention, which immigration advocates have criticized.
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Trump may deport hundreds of thousands of migrants whom Biden allowed to legally enter US
President-elect Trump’s transition team is considering ending two Biden Administration programs that have allowed more than 1.3 million immigrants to enter the U.S. legally, making those who entered but have not yet received asylum eligible for deportation, NBC News has learned.