In the wake of the November shooting of two National Guard members, President Donald Trump took aim at legal immigration and asylum practices with a rash decision to “permanently pause migration from ...

As every journalist knows, critiques — from readers, sources and each other — are part of the job. So, after completing a comprehensive series examining the local effects of tough new federal ...

Democratic U.S. senators, led by Connecticut's Richard Blumenthal, the ranking minority member of the Senate's Permanent Committee on Investigations, held a hearing at the Capitol the other day to ...

Federal agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Chicago in September.

Expedited removal proceedings were proposed initially in the early 1980s as summary exclusions in response to the Mariel boatlift, a reaction to Cuba’s Castro regime that brought approximately 125,000 ...

Ms. Wildman is a staff writer and editor in Opinion. In August, Jemmy Jimenez Rosa and her husband, Marcel, took their three young daughters on a vacation to Cancún, Mexico. On their return to Boston ...

The U.S. has a longstanding principle that immigrants should be able to meet their financial needs without assistance from public resources. But the public charge laws haven’t always been enforced.

Ms. Edelberg is a former chief economist for the Congressional Budget Office. The latest jobs report, delayed for almost seven weeks by the government shutdown, finally came out on Thursday and we ...

The kind of militarization seen at the border is now knocking at people’s doors in places like Chicago and New Orleans, and ...

Federal officials often insist they are targeting “the worst of the worst” in immigration enforcement. Yet in San Diego and other cities, officers have been doing something quite different: arresting ...

Some foundation leaders have spoken in support of the pending bill to overhaul immigration. Every policy decision, however, creates winners and losers. In fairness, both deserve consideration. Needy ...