Immigration

Immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela are affected.

The USC grad has been managing through the family separation for the last 16 years after her father was deported.

Mahi Brijeshkumar Patel was one of the 18 people on board the boat that flipped in Del Mar on May 5. Officials say her body was found by a passerby last week on Torrey Pines State Beach.

The body of a 10-year-old girl who was reported missing after a suspected smuggling boat overturned in Del Mar earlier this month was found, the San Diego County Medical Examiner confirmed.

Releases of immigrant children in U.S. custody have slowed dramatically since the Trump administration increased vetting of people seeking to take care of them.

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been granted bail but remains in custody on a smuggling charge.

A 4-year-old girl with a life-threatening medical condition could die if she gets deported, according to her doctors at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Amid record arrivals of migrants from the Caribbean island, Trump in March revoked temporary humanitarian parole for about 300,000 Cubans. Many have been detained ahead of possible deportation.

Judges were told by the federal government to terminate some peoples’ cases, leaving them vulnerable to arrest as soon as they exit the courtroom. NBC 7’s Joey Safchik reports.

Attorneys and activists who were at federal court Thursday said migrants were detained by ICE immediately after leaving the courtroom.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blasted a federal judge who found that the Trump administration “unquestionably” violated a court order by sending deportees to South Sudan. “The president and this administration hope the Supreme Court does what it needs to do reign in these liberal activist judges.”

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.