Priscilla Alvarez
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Brennan Linsley / AP 'How Much More Merit Do You Need Than Saving American Lives?'
In the past year, there’s been a sudden drop in arrivals under the special-immigrant-visa program for Afghan and Iraqi citizens, many of whom served alongside U.S. soldiers as battlefield translators.
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John Moore / Getty How Will Detained Children Find Their Parents?
President Trump is ordering an end to the separation of families at the border, but the fate of thousands of children already in government custody is uncertain.
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Hans-Maximo Musielik / AP The 'Caravan' Migrants Have a Long Road Ahead of Them
Despite having arrived at the U.S. border, processing and adjudicating asylum claims could take years.
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Gregory Bull / AP Could Trump Actually Use Military Funding for His Border Wall?
The president would have to overcome obstacles in Congress, and perhaps even legal challenges, to use Department of Defense resources on construction.
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Evan Vucci / AP What's Next for Trump's Border Wall?
This week, the president inspected eight prototypes, but his administration still has a long way to go before bringing his campaign pledge to fruition.
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Yuri Gripas / Reuters / Katie Martin / ... Trump’s Hardline Approach Is Forcing Immigrant Advocates to Readjust
Over the years, they’ve pushed for reform, but the latest attempt at policy change is forcing them to consider how far they’re willing to go to protect young undocumented immigrants.
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Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty The Full Text of Mueller's Indictment of 13 Russians
The special counsel indicted the Russian nationals and three Russian entities for allegedly interfering in the 2016 presidential election, the Department of Justice announced Friday.
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Jose Luis Magana / AP ‘We’re Back at Square One’
Encouraged by Senate Democrats’ push to protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation, immigration activists now feel defeated after an agreement to reopen the government without legislation addressing the issue.
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Stephen Lam / Reuters What Will the Dreamers Do Now?
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to allow DACA recipients to renew their protected status. But enrollees are hesitant about what will come of the ruling.
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Alex Wong / Getty The Controversial Question DOJ Wants to Add to the U.S. Census
The Department of Justice requested that the bureau inquire about citizenship in the upcoming questionnaire, a move that experts argue could have a crippling effect on participation.
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Jose Luis Gonzalez / Reuters Deterring Illegal Immigration by Separating Parents and Children
A proposal to stem the flow of migrants trekking to the southern border is revealing the limitations of deterrence policy.
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Evan Vucci / AP The Diversity Visa Program Was Created to Help Irish Immigrants
The history of the green-card lottery, attacked by President Trump on Wednesday, is a story of unintended consequences.
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Gregory Bull / AP The Border-Wall Prototypes Are Up—Now What?
As the administration assesses the projects, both the purpose and effectiveness of a barrier are in question.
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Jacquelyn Martin / AP Will DACA Parents Be Forced to Leave Their U.S.-Citizen Children Behind?
The program offered beneficiaries a sense of security, but with work permits set to expire in the coming months, many of them are having to consider what comes next for their families.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP The White House Lays Out Its Conditions for Extending DACA
The Trump administration provided a list of immigration reforms it wants fulfilled for a deal to protect young undocumented immigrants.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Latino Republicans Place Their Bets on DACA
Strategists are still hoping to salvage a years-long effort to make inroads with Hispanic voters by passing legislation granting legal status to the program’s recipients.
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Mike Segar / Reuters What the Waiting List for Legal Residency Actually Looks Like
Politicians argue immigrants should just “get in line” if they want to live in the United States. But the process itself can take decades.
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Joshua Roberts / Reuters 'Nothing Will Be Official, Until It's Official'
DACA recipients are hopeful about the possibility of Trump signing a bill to grant them legal status, but skeptical about whether it’ll come to fruition.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Immigration Restrictionists Are Disappointed by Trump
Leading opponents of amnesty are waiting warily for details of Trump’s arrangement with Democratic congressional leaders.
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Kyle Grillot / Reuters Borrowed Time
The president’s cancellation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program leaves its beneficiaries in fear of losing their work permits.
