Opponents hold ‘day without immigrants’ in Florida to protest new restrictions

Workers didn’t show up at construction sites and tomato fields, and scores of restaurants, shops and other small businesses never opened their doors.

Naturalization ceremony welcomes 23 new Mainers

The new U.S. citizens took an oath of allegiance to their new country during a ceremony at the South Portland U.S. Citizens and Immigration Service field office.

Federal asylum rule change could affect flow of new immigrants into Maine

U.S.-Mexico border sees orderly crossings as new migration rules take effect

Migrants are now essentially barred from seeking asylum in the U.S. if they did not first apply online or seek protection in the countries they traveled through.

Title 42 has ended. Here’s what it did, and how U.S. immigration policy is changing.

The changes come with the end of coronavirus restrictions on asylum that have allowed the U.S. to quickly turn back migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border for the past three years.

House Republicans pass new asylum restrictions as Title 42 ends

Democrats, who have a narrow hold on the Senate, have decried the aggressive measures in the bill as cruel and anti-immigrant, and Biden has already promised he would veto it.

‘Now or never’: Migrants rush to U.S. border ahead of Title 42 expiration

The new policies crackdown on illegal crossings while also setting up legal pathways for migrants who apply online, seek a sponsor, and undergo background checks.

Huge number of asylum seekers at U.S.-Mexico border as COVID-19 restrictions end, new rules begin

Many migrants, spurred by concerns that it may soon become harder to stay in the U.S., were trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border before Title 42 expires and the new rule takes effect at the end of the day Thursday.

Biden says U.S.-Mexico border will be ‘chaotic for a while’

The Pentagon press secretary says 550 active-duty troops began arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. They will have zero interaction with migrants and are there only to monitor.

At CPAC, Hungary’s Orban denounces LGBTQ+ rights, immigration

The CPAC Hungary conference was the latest embrace of Viktor Orban by the U.S. right-wing movement.