Immigration

The 22-year-old was a lieutenant in the Venezuelan army who received specialized training in Cuba but witnessed oppression and “couldn’t tolerate” being part of the military any longer, according to his attorney.

The man is now at risk of being deported, and if that happens, his family says, he will almost certainly be killed, reports NBC7’s Shelby Bremer. 

A video from an immigration lawyer offering advice on what rights U.S. citizens and visa holders have if stopped by customs at airports is going viral on TikTok.

A meeting between President Donald Trump and South African president Cyril Ramaphosa turned tense when Ramaphosa shot down Trump’s false claims of white genocide in his home country.

A Washington state man, who came to the United States from the Philippines as a young child and is a green card holder, was detained by immigration agents as he returned from vacation with his family.

An undocumented Harvard graduate who grew up in Los Angeles has self-deported to Mexico with his American spouse.

After initially struggling to define habeas corpus, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem testified that the president has the authority to suspend the Constitutional right against unlawful detention.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem mangled a response to a question about habeas corpus at a Senate hearing Tuesday.

The federal government had argued the Columbia University activist was a flight risk and could be apprehended without a warrant.

An undocumented mother in Florida is speaking out after she was allegedly issued a nearly $2 million fine by immigration officials.

It’s the first such order in the mounting legal saga surrounding President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of men to a supermax prison in El Salvador.

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom wants California to stop enrolling more low-income immigrants without legal status in a state-funded health care program. NBC 7’s Dana Williams reports.

More agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation are being tasked to perform immigration enforcement duties nationwide, including in Southern California.

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants California to stop enrolling more low-income immigrants without legal status in a state-funded health care program starting in 2026 and begin charging those already enrolled a monthly premium the following year.

A student who attended Santa Monica College was deported after being detained by federal agents in West Los Angeles.

Avelo Airlines, a budget airline that serves mostly small U.S. cities, began federal deportation flights Monday out of Arizona, a move that’s inspired an online boycott petition and sharp criticism from the union representing the carrier’s flight attendants.

Federal immigration agents were seen breaking an SUV’s window, throwing a man inside to the ground and handcuffing him on Sunday, Mother’s Day, after the man and his family left church in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

An incident last week led to the confirmed deaths of three people, including a 14-year-old boy, whose 10-year-old sister remains lost at sea and is presumed dead.

A boat carrying multiple migrants washed up on shore Sunday morning near Windansea Beach, in La Jolla.