The Latest Breaking News from Immigration

Despite the rare opposition in the Senate, the House is unlikely to take any similar action – key US politics stories from Thursday 30 October at a glance

A YouGov poll found only 26% of people said immigration and asylum was one of the three most important issues facing their community.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis orders state universities to end H-1B visa hiring, affecting nearly 400 foreign workers. The controversial move aligns with Trump administration immigration reforms and sparks debate over specialty occupation visas in higher education.

The secretary of defense wants the attorneys for assignments near the U.S.-Mexico border

The United States will admit no more than 7,500 refugees in fiscal year 2026, with most slots expected to go to white South Africans, according to a notice published Thursday in the Federal Register.

he man once known in Mexico as the "El Chapo of tax fraud" did not move tons of cocaine or wage bloody battles against rivals. Instead, Víctor Manuel Álvarez Puga allegedly built a billion-peso empire through fake invoices, phantom companies, and money-laundering schemes that reached the highest levels of government.

A Chicago man whose 16-year-old daughter is undergoing treatment for advanced cancer will be released on bond and return home, an immigration judge ruled Thursday

For the past two weeks, Juan Barbosa Gomez has been in federal immigration detention, but he doesn't show up on ICE's online detainee locator. His family says he has valid work permit and no criminal record.

"Illinois children should not be robbed of their innocence," Pritzker wrote in his letter.

A survivor's story reveals how US abusers weaponise immigration law, using ICE threats to control partners and silence domestic-violence victims.

So argues a concurring opinion in today's Second Circuit decision in Leroy v. Livingston Manor Central School Dist., also speaking about speech that "callously cheer[s] on or condone[s]" "police brutality, ... religiously-motivated attacks on their houses of worship, sexual or gender-based violence, or any other type of targeted state or…