Immigration

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.

Amid threats of new tariffs, the incoming U.S. president said Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum had “agreed to stop migration.”

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....

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.”

Two experts explain the origins of birthright citizenship and what it would take to change it in the US.

Jose Antonio Ibarra was convicted on Wednesday in a case that became focal to the immigration debate ahead of the presidential election.

The Arlington County Board’s decision to change the rules for how police collaborate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement sparked heated debate. Board members say they tightened rules to protect migrants, but some in the community believe the change will help the President-elect Donald Trump administration’s plans for mass deportation. “We demand ICE out of Arlington,” people chanted at the...

There is heated debate in Arlington over the county board’s decision to change the rules for how police collaborate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

Montgomery County lawmakers introduced a bill Tuesday that would remove barriers for immigrants who have been victims of crimes to apply for a special kind of visa. News4’s Mauricio Casillas explains who could be impacted by the bill.

As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, the incoming administration is looking at how to reopen, expand or build immigrant detention centers near major cities, including D.C., sources told NBC News.

President-elect Donald Trump promised mass deportations during his campaign, and sources familiar with the plan tell NBC News the incoming administration is already making plans. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

The plan would also include restarting the policy of detaining parents with their children, known as family detention, which immigration advocates have criticized.

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.

A federal judge has struck down a Biden administration policy that aimed to ease a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens.

In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Trump talked about his campaign promise to carry out the largest mass deportation of immigrants in U.S. history.

Donald Trump has promised to stage the largest mass deportation in U.S. history if elected. The move would disrupt families with relatives living in the U.S. illegally.

Stash’s Pizza owner Stavros “Steve” Papantoniadis of Westwood has been sentenced to federal prison after being convicted this summer on forced labor charges

Immigration has been a hotly debated issue between Republicans and Democrats running up to the 2024 election. Here’s what’s actually happening with immigration in America.

Immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children were among more than 200 demonstrators who gathered outside a federal courthouse in New Orleans where appellate judges heard arguments over a policy shielding them from deportation.

The Biden administration will not extend a two-year program that allows migrants from certain nations into the U.S. if they came by plane with sponsorship.