President-elect Trump’s incoming administration is expected to take aim at legal immigration in addition to cracking down on the illegal variety, slowing the pace of application approvals and redirecting resources to look for fraud in old applications,
President-elect Donald Trump's relatively strong showing among voters of color has been one of the most striking takeaways from the 2024 election. According to data from AP VoteCast, the Associated Press's next-generation spin on the traditional exit poll, Trump's share of the Black and Latino vote increased by 8 points each between 2020 and 2024.
Biden has carried out more total repatriations than Trump. But that’s not evidence that fewer people were let into the U.S. than under Trump.
And Evans-Schroeder expects Trump will undo Biden's policy of prosecutorial discretion, in which immigration authorities are allowed to prioritize certain groups for arrest and deportation, like those who pose a threat to public safety or national security, while deprioritizing others.
There's been growing fear from residents since President-elect Donald Trump said he would declare a national emergency and use the military to conduct mass deportations. After the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to adopt a "sanctuary city" ordinance,
Agriculture companies and laborers fear raids; 42% of crop farmhands aren’t legally authorized to work in the U.S.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton failed in every one of his attempts to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to halt President Joe Biden’s immigration policies. But the Texas Republican’s repeated losses might have actually helped clear the way for President-elect Donald Trump to roll out an immigration crackdown that includes mass deportations,
Despite the State choosing not to focus on Jose Ibarra's immigration status, and instead on the ample evidence they believed had implicated him, the murder of Laken Riley quickly turned into a contentious political debate with Republicans,
JD Vance and others on the “new right” say limiting immigration will raise wages and give jobs to sidelined Americans. Many studies suggest otherwise.
President-elect Donald Trump could quickly seek to tackle an immigration program that some have argued has long been subject to abuse and fraud, according to one expert.