MORE ON: immigration

When the Department of Homeland Security trudged up to Capitol Hill this year and asked lawmakers for another 365 days worth of funding, as every federal agency does each year, officials ticked off a list of accomplishments they presented as evidence of the agency’s ongoing success. The... + read more

When a change to federal law meant many immigrants would lose access to certain welfare benefits, Santa Clara County faced having to absorb thousands of residents in local safety net programs. So the county pursued a way to keep immigrants eligible for federal benefits: citizenship. Since 1996... + read more

Scarlette Kim woke up on the morning of June 15 to an email announcing a policy she had long been waiting for: The Obama administration would stop deporting immigrants like her who came to the United States illegally as young children. "I was ecstatic," said Kim, who will be a junior... + read more

English and Spanish alternate seamlessly in the classrooms at the Mission Education Center in San Francisco. Decorative signs identify objects that in other schools would seem too basic to name: “clock” and “door.” This public elementary school has for 40 years served... + read more

A little randomness in deploying Border Patrol agents might work best to prevent illegal border crossings, according to a study from the RAND Corp. The study, which was funded by the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, found that combining ... + read more

U.S. policies and laws aimed at improving the nation's immigration system have unintentionally spurred more immigrants – authorized or not – to stay in the United States, according to a new paper released today. The paper, “Unintended Consequences of U.S. Immigration... + read more

Illegal immigrants with severe mental health problems are caught in legal limbo, trapped in detention in the United States without attorneys. + read more