The Latest Breaking News from Immigration

"Decisions should be guided by law, not fear," said an immigration lawyer to The Latin Times when asked about the proliferation of self-deportations

Just one piece of Trump's plan, the Laken Riley Act, would require at least $26.9 billion to ramp up capacity at immigrant detention facilities to add 110,000 beds.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers used his seventh State of the State speech Wednesday to urge the Republican-controlled Legislature to enact a wide range of Democratic priorities they have rejected in the past, including numerous gun control measures just a month after a school shooting not far from the state Capitol

Trump tried to pull funding from sanctuary cities during first term

Congress passed the Laken Riley Act, a key Trump-era immigration policy that marks shifts in Washington politics as 12 Senate Democrats voted in support.

The deployment is part of Trump’s executive action to declare a ‘national emergency’ at the US’s southern border.

ANALYSIS: Analysis: Several Democrats backed Republicans to give the new president a big first win on immigration as their own party tries to forge its own narrative on the issue, writes Eric Garcia

The bill, named for Laken Riley, a Georgia student killed by an immigrant, adds legislative muscle to President Trump’s immigration enforcement push.

Forty-six Democrats joined Republicans to further bill requiring detention of undocumented immigrants for theft