Immigration

An estimated 8,000 people left southern Mexico in a caravan Christmas Eve with the hopes of reaching the U.S. border.

A new program that allows groups of U.S. citizens to name the specific refugees they would like to sponsor to come to America is giving a family in Texas hope of a reunification.

The number of immigrants to the U.S. jumped to the highest level in two decades this year, driving the nation’s overall population growth, according to estimates released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Demonstrators gathered outside the White House Friday to voice concerns over possible major changes in immigration policy. Sources familiar with the negotiations tell NBC News President Joe Biden’s administration is considering agreeing to a Republican demand that would allow for more expulsions of migrants from the U.S. News4’s Mauricio Casillas reports advocates say they feel Biden is breaking campaign...

Children may still be separated but under limited circumstances, as was the case before a zero-tolerance Trump-era policy.

Children had been dispersed to shelters across the country that didn’t know who their parents were or how to find them.

Border security is a key component of a broader legislative deal that lawmakers are rushing to complete before the end of the year.

Biden’s administration said it plans to have “multiple” deportation flights a week to Venezuela, according to a U.S. Transportation Department waiver on travel restrictions.

The Biden administration and more than 4,000 migrants who were separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border by the Trump administration reached a legal settlement Monday that allows the families to live and work in the U.S. for three years while receiving housing, mental health and legal assistance to apply for asylum.

U.S. officials can continue to refuse asylum-seekers at border crossings with Mexico if they don’t have appointments on a mobile phone app.

Here’s a look at immigrants’ mental health challenges and which culturally specific resources are available in the D.C. area.

D.C.’s 2024 teacher of the year is an educator who works with children who arrived in the District on buses full of migrants.

Beth Barkley, a teacher at Cardozo Education Campus who is known for her work with migrant students, won the honor of D.C.’s teacher of the year. News4’s Mark Segraves spoke to her and her students about the accomplishment.

Migrant transit centers financed by the United States have been set up in Guatemala to receive applications from Central American citizens seeking to apply for work visas, family reunifications or refugee status

Because of a procedural change in how the U.S. government processes some green cards, faith communities across the country may lose thousands of leaders and workers.

One of six men charged in Texas over 53 migrants who died last year in a sweltering tractor-trailer has pleaded guilty to smuggling-related charges.

Border patrol agents found a 2-month-old baby abandoned at the U.S.-Mexico border this week, according to Chief Patrol Agent Gloria I. Chavez.

The case of an Afghan man who represented himself in U.S. immigration court offers a rare look in that system’s proceedings.

Pope Francis is challenging French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders to open their ports to people fleeing hardship and poverty.

The 23-year-old man and his pet squirrel are an unusual but blunt reflection of the emotional choices migrants make over what to take — and what to leave behind — as they embark on the dangerous trip north. Here’s their touching story.