Immigration

A federal judge in North Dakota blocked a Biden administration rule that allowed DACA recipients to sign up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.

Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and other high-level posts have been outsiders, often with Fox News appearances as key qualifications. But to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Trump went a different route.

United States and Guatemalan authorities have announced the arrest of six people charged with human smuggling linked to a semi-trailer truck crash in Mexico in 2021 that killed more than 50 migrants.

President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration and border team is filling out.

Gov. Gavin Newsom visited the California-Mexico border in San Diego County Thursday to highlight construction at one of the state’s land port of entries. Christian Cázares reports for the NBC4 News at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024.

The transition team is preparing a list of countries to which migrants might be deported when their home countries refuse to accept them, three sources familiar with the plans told NBC News.

The state’s land commissioner bought a 1,402-acre plot on the Rio Grande and has offered it to the incoming Trump administration for immigrant detention centers.

Amid threats of new tariffs, the incoming U.S. president said Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum had “agreed to stop migration.”

Border Patrol agents are tasked with enforcing hotly contested immigration policies as many Americans at both ends of the political spectrum look askance at the border — and the agents. That’s taking a mounting toll, so the agency is training more among its ranks to become chaplains and provide spiritual care for their fellow agents on and off the job....

California farmworkers, many of whom are undocumented, are bracing for possible changes once President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House.

Data shows about half of farm workers in California are undocumented. Christian Cázares reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024.

According to Donald Trump’s Agenda 47, the President-elect announced his plan to “sign an executive order on Day One to end automatic citizenship for children of illegal aliens.”

Undocumented Filipino immigrants in Long Beach are afraid of possible mass deportations by the Trump administration. Mekahlo Medina reports for the NBC4 News at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. 

Two experts explain the origins of birthright citizenship and what it would take to change it in the US.

Jose Antonio Ibarra was convicted on Wednesday in a case that became focal to the immigration debate ahead of the presidential election.

While California’s sanctuary state law already enforces protective measures for immigrants, there are some exceptions.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta diplomatically pointed out that the provisions laid out by the Los Angeles City Council are already state law. Conan Nolan reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. 

The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday adopted a sanctuary city ordinance that prohibits the use of city resources in immigration enforcement, including cooperating with federal immigration agents. Alex Rozier reports for the NBC4 News at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. 

The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday adopted a sanctuary city ordinance that prohibits the use of city resources in immigration enforcement.

President-Elect Trump’s border czar says deportation plans to be finalized this week