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North Texas church hopes to reunite families for the holidays
Another bus full of people looking for asylum arrived in North Texas Monday and a church is working to quickly unite them with family this holiday season.
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Asylum seekers arrive in North Texas, local church facilitates family unification
Another bus full of people looking for asylum arrived in North Texas Monday and a church is working to quickly unite them with family this holiday season.
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Trump wants mass deportations. A ride-along with immigration officers shows the challenges
The President-elect’s priorities could run into the realities faced by agents focused on enforcement and removals: The number of people already on its lists eclipses the number of officers available to do the work.
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Immigration agency deports highest numbers since 2014, aided by more flights
Increased deportation flights, including on weekends, and streamlined travel procedures for people sent to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador fueled the increase, ICE said.
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Texas new mom deported after missed immigration hearing following emergency C-section, family attorney says
Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it was following the orders of an immigration judge and the parents decided for the infants to go to Mexico with her.
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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.