On this day in 1870, the 15th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing the right to vote -- regardless ...

As President Trump ramps up efforts for what could be the largest mass deportation in U.S. history, immigration raids rise ...

Donald Trump has long explicitly challenged a foundational myth of American identity: the idea of the United States as a ...

The president’s actions move the federal government toward his promised hardline position. But some executive orders will ...

The case is one of five lawsuits being brought by 22 states and several immigrants rights groups across the country. President Donald Trump has proposed sweeping changes to the federal government ...

The case is one of five lawsuits being brought by 22 states and several immigrants rights groups across the country. President Donald Trump has proposed sweeping changes to the federal government ...

The president’s Day 1 actions included directives that fly in the face of legal limits on involving the military in domestic ...

President Donald Trump has already inundated the country’s immigration system with enough changes to create immediate impacts along the border and across American cities. Thousands of migrants trying ...

as current law requires immigration officers to conduct the fast-tracked deportation authority known as “expedited removal.” The moves could also clash with the Posse Comitatus Act, an 1870s ...

Until the 1870s, there were no federal laws enforced to restrict immigration. But rising unemployment in California during that decade led white workers to accuse Chinese immigrants of stealing ...

Advocates and immigration experts who have noticed such departures say Bérrios’ decision to leave the U.S., despite her legal status, shows how uncertainty and threats have led a growing number ...

Michel Bérrios, originally from Nicaragua, is interviewed in Tracy, Calif., Dec. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) ...