Immigration

Inocencio Roman Solano was released from an ICE Center at the Bergen County Jail on Thursday after having been detained for the last year-and-a-half.

The New York office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is one of many local immigration advocacy groups bracing for a frenzied weekend when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are expected to raid major cities across the country looking for undocumented persons.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is condemning President Trump's threat to deport up to 2,000 undocumented immigrants across 10 cities, including New York. The ICE raids were slated to begin this week but the president tweeted on Saturday that he is delaying the operation for two weeks.

On May 19, Cristina and Maria Villon Bustillo accomplished the dream their parents had for them 11 years ago when they arrived in America. The identical twins, who had immigrated from Ecuador, graduated from St. John's University.

President Donald Trump on Saturday delayed a nationwide immigration sweep to deport people living the United States illegally, including families, saying he would give lawmakers two weeks to work out solutions for the southern border.

Daniel Barragan, 9, is hoping that his father, Benjamin, can return to the United States after having his application for a green card denied for previously entering the country illegally.

Higher salaries, better working conditions, maternity leave, minimum wage and an end to discrimination against temporary or foreign workers: These were among the concerns as hundreds of thousands of union members and labor activists rallied around the world to mark May Day.

Arian Moayed is the co-founder of Waterwell. His latest production is "The Courtroom," starring Ruthie Ann Miles, Kathleen Chalfant, Kristin Villanueva, and Hannah Cheek.

President Donald Trump declared a national emergency Friday to fulfill his pledge to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Bypassing Congress, which approved far less money for his proposed wall than he had sought, Trump said he will use executive action to siphon billions of dollars from federal military construction and counterdrug efforts for the wall, aides said.

The United States has approved thousands of requests by men to bring child bridges and adolescent brides from other countries. the approvals are legal because the immigration and nationality act does not set minimum age requirements. A new U.S. Senate report, called How the U.S. Immigration System Encourages Child Marriages, is raising questions about whether our country's immigration system encourages child marriages.

President Trump has said that he may declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress and the budget stalemate and force construction of his long-promised southern border wall. But can he really do that?

U.S. border agents fired tear gas on hundreds of migrants protesting near the border with Mexico on Sunday after some of them attempted to get through the fencing and wire separating the two countries, and American authorities shut down the nation's busiest border crossing from the city where thousands are waiting to apply for asylum.

President Donald Trump is making another hardline immigration play in the final days before midterm elections, declaring that he wants to order an end to the constitutional right to citizenship for babies born in the United States to non-citizens. Most scholars think he can't implement such a change unilaterally.

A deliveryman who was detained by immigration officers after dropping off a pizza to an Army base in Brooklyn in June is back behind bars after his arrest in a domestic violence case. Hempstead police officers arrested Pablo Villavicencio, 35, on Friday for allegedly assaulting his wife and preventing her from calling the police.