asylum-seekers

Lee Gelernt with the ACLU said the action goes "way beyond anything that even President Trump has tried in the past."

Incoming president Donald Trump has vowed to end the CBP One app, which people outside the U.S. use to book appointments to petition for asylum.

In recent years, a record number of immigrants have entered the U.S. and sought asylum. Instead of relief, they're met with a staggering backlog and uncertain future.

President Joe Biden’s immigration proclamation bars migrants who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border from seeking asylum when the number of border crossings reach a certain level. Some legal avenues of entry remain available for migrants.

Gay and trans migrants often faced violence in their home countries. Many face similar persecution from their countrymen in the U.S.

A flight of Venezuelan migrants deported from the U.S. under new measures by the Biden administration has landed outside the South American country's capital.

The justices agreed to decide in its February argument session whether 19 states that oppose the Title 42 policy should be allowed to intervene in defense of the restrictions in the lower courts.

Homeland security officials say they are planning for a possible increase in migration, as the Biden administration faces growing pressure to end pandemic border restrictions known as Title 42.

Migrants seeking to enter the United States will again have to stay in Mexico as they await immigration hearings, as the Biden administration reluctantly announced plans to comply with a court order.

Officials are trying to shrink the timetable for many asylum cases from "years to months." That could benefit people with legitimate asylum claims and discourage some unauthorized migration.

President Biden has called his predecessor's "Remain in Mexico" program for asylum-seekers "inhumane." Next week, a new program begins, but details are still being worked out.

Tens of thousands of migrants, including asylum-seekers and unaccompanied children, have been turned away at the border since March. Now the administration wants to restrict asylum permanently.