Immigration

The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador despite a federal judge’s order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members. Flights were in the air at the time of the ruling. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg issued an order Saturday evening blocking the deportations but lawyers told him there...

El Salvador is agreeing to accept from the United States about 300 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang for one year.

Donald Trump has widely signaled he would invoke the 1798 Act, last used to justify the internment of Japanese-American civilians during World War 2.

Mahmoud Khalil was taken into custody by immigration authorities last weekend, prompting outrage.

Visa processing times in Vermont have gone from one month to three. In California, it previously took two to four months, but now, it’s eight.

The mother of four U.S. citizen children, including a 10-year-old girl recovering from brain cancer, is pleading for her family’s return to the United States, NBC News reported.

The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol relaunched its app this week with a new feature, allowing users to self-deport. It’s part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

The Department of Homeland Security has relaunched an immigration app, now allowing people to self-deport — but will anyone use the feature? Here’s how it works and its pitch to undocumented immigrants....

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The Department of Homeland Security says its immigrant detention centers are at capacity, housing about 47,600 individuals.

All U.S. population growth in 2022-2023 happened because of immigration, not births — the first time that’s occurred since 1850, a migration think tank reported Wednesday.

On the heels of Mayor Michelle Wu’s testimony on Boston’s sanctuary city policies, the city council took its own look at the policy, the 2014 Trust Act. There remains broad support, but one councilman said not everyone in the body is on the same page....

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The Trump administration has overhauled a cellphone app once used to let migrants apply for asylum.

A federal judge in New York blocked the Trump administration from deporting a prominent Palestinian activist who was arrested over the weekend for helping lead protests last spring at Columbia University.

The Department of Homeland Security launched an update on the CBP Home mobile app on Monday that enables migrants to indicate their plan to leave the U.S.

A city council committee meeting on Monday centered on Boston’s Trust Act — a policy that has been in the national spotlight amid Republican-led criticism of so-called sanctuary cities.

Mayor Wu defended the Trust Act during last week’s hearing on Capitol Hill.

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Panama has released dozens of migrants deported from the United States who were held for weeks in a remote camp on the condition that they would leave the Central American nation in 30 days.

With some Republicans threatening to recommend criminal charges against Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and three other mayors over their cities’ immigration policies after Wednesday’s hearing, Wu said Friday that the city is legally “on solid ground.” Wu testified at Republican-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing regarding sanctuary cities, alongside Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston...

The mayor has returned to Boston after testifying before a House committee about the city’s handling of migrants.

U.S. immigration agents are planning a new operation to arrest migrant families with children as part of a nationwide crackdown, according to three sources familiar with the planning.