Immigration

Venezuelan migrants returning from southern Mexico after giving up on reaching the U.S. rest on the street in Panama City, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Panama to allow 112 migrants deported from the US to move about freely in the country

Panama’s Security Minister Frank Ábrego says Panama will begin the process of issuing humanitarian passes to 112 migrants deported from the United States who have been held in a remote camp in the Darien region since last month.

Migrants stand on the deck of the Italian Coast Guard ship Diciotti, moored at the Catania harbor, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)

Italy’s top court orders government to compensate migrants who were stranded at sea for days

This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)

UN says 186 missing and at least 2 dead after migrant boats capsize off Yemen and Djibouti

An American flag hangs in a classroom as students work on laptops, Aug. 25, 2020, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Federal judge won’t order immigration officials to change school arrests policy

CORRECTS JACKSON'S TITLE AT TIME IMAGE WAS TAKEN - FILE - Rep. Jeff Jackson, D-N.C., Democratic candidate for North Carolina attorney general, speaks at a campaign event for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, File)

North Carolina Republicans seek to force top Democrats to fall in line with Trump agenda

Venezuelan family receives closure after laying son to rest in Eagle Pass, TX after 2023 death

A small group of people people gathered on Thursday at the Maverick County Cemetery in Eagle Pass, Texas for the funeral of Venezuelan migrant Gustavo Alfonso Garcia Olivares, 24. The modest funeral service was the first for a migrant by Border Vigil, a human rights organization on the U.S.-Mexico border, one of the world’s deadliest. (AP video by Lekan Oyekanmi)

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Immigrants seeking asylum walk at the ICE South Texas Family Residential Center, Aug. 23, 2019, in Dilley, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Privately run immigration detention center that previously held families in Texas will reopen

New York City Mayor Eric Adams takes his seat at the witness table during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing with Sanctuary City Mayors on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Republicans hammer mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York over ‘sanctuary city’ policies

Oscar, an immigrant from Central America seeking asylum, right, visits Sister Pat Murphy, 95, left, and Sister JoAnn Persch, 90, nuns with the Sisters of Mercy, at their home Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in Alsip, Ill. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)

These nuns advocated for immigrant rights for 40 years — now in their 90s, they’re not slowing down

Vice President JD Vance speaks to reporters during a visit to the U.S. border with Mexico Wednesday, March 5, 2025, in Eagle Pass, Texas, as Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard listens. (Brandon Bell/Pool via AP)

Vance promotes Trump’s ‘whole government’ immigration crackdown during visit to US-Mexico border

Migrants from Venezuela take shelter in the Chicago Police Department's 16th District station, May 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Republicans target 4 ‘sanctuary’ cities as Trump pushes mass deportations

Idaho Gov. Brad Little listens at a press conference about border policies in Eagle Pass, Texas, Feb. 4, 2024. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

Immigrant labor fuels US economy but Trump’s crackdown mostly ignores it

A boat transporting migrants departs the Caribbean coastal village of Miramar, Panama, for the Colombian border, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, as migrants return from southern Mexico after abandoning hopes of reaching the U.S. in a reverse flow triggered by the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Costa Rica and Panama coordinate to move southbound migrants

Tunisia rescues 64 migrants from capsizing boat off eastern Mediterranean coast

In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, flags fly at half-staff at Camp Justice, Aug. 29, 2021, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Attorneys are suing to keep 10 migrants out of Guantanamo Bay as others say they were abused there

Two humanitarian parole beneficiaries, a mother and her son from Venezuela who were sponsored by Sandra McAnany, and the husband/father whom they reunited with enjoy the North Carolina Zoo, June 1, 2024, in Randolph County, NC. (Sandra McAnany via AP)

Trump cutoff of humanitarian parole for immigrants from Ukraine, 6 other countries challenged

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, left, stands with Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox outside city hall, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Border czar makes the city of Boston his latest immigration target

Vice President JD Vance, speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2025, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Vice President JD Vance, a Catholic, acknowledges the pope’s criticism of US immigration crackdown

Ron Gochez, a teacher volunteering with Union del Barrio, an organization advocating for immigrant rights, is reflected in a side mirror as he searches for ICE activity in a neighborhood in Los Angeles Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Volunteers use bullhorns and sirens to warn immigrants when ICE is in their area

Víctor Razuri, 41, from Peru, poses in a ham drying plant in Guissona, Lleida, Spain, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. Inside a cavernous production plant in northeastern Spain, among millions of legs of Spanish ham traveling down hooks and conveyer belts, people from 62 nationalities work side by side to keep a successful food company humming. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra)

Foreign workers help Spain’s economic growth outpace the US and the rest of Europe

Law enforcement officers detain migrants in the area in Coral Gables, Fla., Jan. 28, 2025. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via AP File)

Florida ups the stakes for crimes by immigrants in the US illegally

Venezuelan migrant Naomi Diaz sits on a boat departing from Panama's Caribbean coastal village of Miramar to the border with Colombia, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025. Migrants are returning from southern Mexico after giving up on reaching the U.S., a reverse flow triggered by President Trump administration's immigration crackdown. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Panama and Costa Rica turning into a ‘black hole’ for migrants and deportees from US, observers warn

Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego, who was named in January as the archbishop of Washington, D.C. by Pope Francis, speaks during a news conference Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Cardinal McElroy calls for compassion in immigration policy as he prepares to lead in Washington

This photo provided by Thailand's daily web newspaper Prachatai shows trucks with black tape covering the windows leave a detention center in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025.(Nuttaphol Meksobhon/Prachatai via AP)

Thailand deports 40 Uyghur men back to China after more than a decade in detention

Maguette Diauf Fall, a teacher at Nouadhibou's Organization for the Support of Migrants and refugees, poses for a portrait in a classroom, Mauritania, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Khaled Moulay)

A school helps migrants in Mauritania. Is it enough to keep them from leaving for Europe?

Three children play where the border wall separating Mexico and the United States meets the Pacific Ocean, Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, in Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Immigration officials say everyone living in the US illegally must register. What does that mean?

Venezuelan migrant Gabriela Villanueva holds her daughter as she waits to board a boat to Colombia on Panama's Caribbean coastal island of Gardi Sugdub, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, after turning back from southern Mexico where they gave up hopes of reaching the U.S. amid President Trump's crackdown on migration. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

The US lines up Latin American cooperation for migrant deportations

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks with reporters at the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump administration creates registry for immigrants who are in the US illegally

A boat departs to Colombia from Gardi Sugdub on Panama's Caribbean coast, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025, carrying Venezuelan migrants on their way back from southern Mexico after giving up hopes of reaching the U.S. as President Trump's cracks down on migration.(AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Panama to formalize long-used migrant smuggling boat route to handle ‘reverse flow’ south

Members of the Goya family wait for a ride, with their belongings, in front of the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. The Venezuelan family said they had been living at the hotel for eight months and they were were moving to another shelter in The Bronx. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

New York City is set to close a hub for migrants at the formerly grand Roosevelt Hotel

Why two border counties are joining Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star after migration slows

Migrants board an Italian Coast Guard vessel as part of a transfer operation from the asylum processing centers in Albania back to Italy following a court decision in Rome, at the port of Shengjin, northwestern Albania, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Vlasov Sulaj)

Italy defends plan to process asylum-seekers in Albania at EU’s top court

Judge blocks Trump immigration policy allowing arrests in churches for some religious groups

Luis Sanchez, center, sits with other Venezuelan migrants on a boat leaving Gardi Sugdub on Panama's Caribbean coast, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after giving up hopes of reaching the U.S. while in southern Mexico amid President Trump's crackdown on migration. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

They crossed the Darien Gap to reach the US. Now, boat-by-boat, migrants are returning

Law enforcement officers detain migrants in the area in Coral Gables, Fla., Jan. 28, 2025. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via AP File)

States threaten fines and jail time for local officials who resist Trump’s immigration crackdown

Clothes of migrants deported from the United States hang on windows inside a hotel in Panama City, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)

Isolated in ‘harsh conditions:' Deportee from US details legal limbo in Panama camp near Darien Gap