The Latest Breaking News from Alejandro Mayorkas

WASHINGTON — When House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy led a group of House Republicans to the U.S.-Mexico border this year, he had a warning for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about what Republicans would do if they were in charge.

GOP lawmakers already planning how they’ll handle immigration issues if they emerge victorious in November and win control of the House.

A bipartisan group of Florida members of Congress called on the Biden administration Friday to “redesignate and extend” Temporary Protected Status, a humanitarian protection that shields people from deportation, to eligible Nicaraguan already residing in the United States.

Last year, a Politico headline summarized President Joe Biden's immigration problem succinctly: "It's not just Republicans. Everyone's mad at Biden over migration." In the 2020 campaign, Biden promised a fair and humane immigration system and offered unrelenting criticism of then-President Donald Trump for his cruel rhetoric about and policies toward…

Temporary Protect Status extension shields Venezuelans in US as of March 2021 from deportation for 18 more months.

Eligible Venezuelans will be able to live in the United States with temporary protected status for another 18 months, the Biden administration announced Monday, although Venezuelans who have arrived in the country after March 8, 2021, will not be eligible for the immigration relief.

Investigators ‘found multiple instances in which agents acted inappropriately during the incident’

Several Border Patrol agents used undue force against Haitian migrants along the southwest border last fall.

The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to let immigration agencies implement a policy that sets enforcement priorities, after lower courts blocked it as part of a legal challenge brought by officials from Texas and Louisiana. The policy, issued by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in a September…