The Latest Breaking News from Thom Tillis

“They’re not from outer space,” Sen. Thom Tillis says after all-senators classified briefing about the unidentified objects.

It’s a tough time to be a U.S. senator.

WASHINGTON — Congressional inaction on immigration sparked yet another Senate showdown over the so-called Title 42 border expulsion directive, prolonging a legislative stalemate on the issue and paving the way for U.S. border policy to likely be decided in the courts.

WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders who hoped to strike a deal on immigration reform before the end of the year faced difficult odds to push proposals through for votes.

Congressional inaction on immigration sparked yet another Senate showdown over the so-called Title 42 border expulsion directive.

A relatively quiet congressional effort to achieve bipartisan progress on immigration appeared to meet an untimely end last week.

For all the acrimony surrounding immigration politics, a majority of Americans have long supported two goals: giving undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children a pathway to legal status, and securing the country’s southern border. With only days remaining in the current Congress, lawmakers have an opportunity to…

WASHINGTON — Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Thom Tillis appear to have run out of time to pass a bipartisan immigration deal this month that would legalize roughly 2 million so-called Dreamers in exchange for stronger border security.

WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado unveiled long-awaited legislation Thursday to revise the agricultural visa system and offer migrant farmworkers a path to permanent residency — a last-ditch effort to enact changes after bipartisan talks fell apart.