Immigration

Experts recommend seeking an immigration attorney and collecting documentation to prove your U.S. citizenship, like birth certificates and passports.

A federal judge ordered that a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration authorities in Louisiana be brought to Vermont by May 1 for a hearing over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for an op-ed piece she co-wrote in the student newspaper.

The fight over Abrego Garcia is the latest partisan flashpoint as Democrats have struggled to break through and push back during the opening few months of Trump’s second time in office.

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez was stopped while traveling with others in a vehicle from Georgia to a job in Florida. He was arrested under a law that a judge has temporarily blocked.

The world’s largest immigration detention system is on the cusp of explosive growth as President Donald Trump pursues his signature campaign promise of mass deportations.

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen met Thursday evening with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who is being held in an El Salvador prison after wrongly being deported from Maryland.

A U.S.-born American citizen was being detained at the request of immigration authorities Thursday despite an advocate showing his U.S. birth certificate in court and a county judge finding no reason for him to be considered an “illegal alien” who illegally entered Florida.

“I was born in National City, California,” National City resident Aldo Martinez told NBC 7. “I was never paroled, I was never admitted into this country, I am no type of parole.”

More than 200 people, convicted sex predators and drug lords among them, were rounded up in the New York City area over a six-day period earlier this month as part of President Donald Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown, federal authorities say. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and law enforcement partners engaged in a targeted enforcement operation focusing on “egregious” criminal...

Gaby Acevedo reports on the latest ICE arrests in the New York City area.

A Cromwell woman was left stunned after getting an email from the federal government telling her to leave the country, but she said she was born a U.S. citizen and has never been in trouble with the law. “It is time for you to leave the United States.” That’s the first sentence Lisa Anderson saw in an email she got...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia is an El Salvadoran immigrant at the center of a legal battle that could reshape American immigration policy. Here’s what you need to know.

A federal judge said in an order Wednesday that he has found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt over the deportation flights that it sent to El Salvador, NBC News reports. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg found “the Government’s actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to conclude...

Marilu Domingo Ortiz said when ICE vehicles began following she and her husband Monday and then surrounded their car in New Bedford, Massachusetts, she took out her cell phone and started recording.

Nicole Micheroni, an immigration attorney and U.S. citizen born and raised in Massachusetts, has not heard from the Department of Homeland Security since it told her to leave the country

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis ordered the administration to provide evidence on any steps it’s taken to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Immigration law expert Elizabeth Ricci says that undocumented immigrants who pay taxes may stop filing for fear of being deported. 

Like millions of American citizens and immigrants, Ivan filed his taxes last year. But Ivan, 54, a Massachusetts resident who hails from Colombia, is worried a recent agreement between the IRS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement means he is in danger of being deported for doing what he believed was the right thing. And if taxpayers like Ivan decide not to file...

Bachir Atallah, a real estate attorney from New Hampshire, says he and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were stopped crossing from Canada into Vermont

Several international students who have had their visas revoked in recent weeks have filed lawsuits against the Trump administration, arguing the government denied them due process when it suddenly took away their permission to be in the U.S. The actions by the federal government to terminate students’ legal status have left hundreds of scholars at risk of detention and deportation. Their...