Immigration and New Americans

8+ hour, 21+ min ago   (312+ words) The Trump administration has cut Medicaid coverage for hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants, including refugees and trafficking victims. The new restrictions took effect at the start of October and aim to reduce federally funded healthcare for noncitizens. Advocates warn…...

11+ hour, 9+ min ago   (492+ words) An officer in plainclothes and a tactical vest detains a man who came out of the Yakima County jail Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have staked out the parking lot looking for people suspected of violating immigration laws…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (108+ words) Bluefield Daily Telegraph Wind Advisory from SAT 5:00 PM EDT until SUN 11:00 AM EDT FILE - An unaccompanied minor looks up as he waits to answer questions from a U.S. Border Patrol agent at an intake site after he was smuggled on an…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago   (659+ words) An ancient cottonwood that had become a symbol of resistance along the Arizona border has been cut down for Donald Trump’s wall project, ending a months-long occupation by protesters who had camped in its branches to save it. The tree,…...

6+ hour, 31+ min ago   (579+ words) A federal judge in Arizona has sanctioned an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for making a "factually baseless" accusation against an attorney representing an Iranian immigrant detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In a 16-page order on…...

2+ hour, 4+ min ago   (266+ words) MAINE, USA — Four Maine residents are asking a federal judge to prohibit federal immigration agents from using government databases to track and intimidate people who observe or record enforcement operations. Elinor Hilton, Colleen Fagan, Polyxenia Pantos, and Carlyn Williams filed…...

4+ hour, 19+ min ago   (514+ words) Laredo Police Chief Miguel Rodriguez addresses the Laredo City Council on Oct. 5, 2026, at City Hall. Laredo approved the submission of an estimated $11.1 million grant application to the U.S. Department of Justice for the Laredo Police Department after extended debate over potential…...

23+ hour, 12+ min ago   (162+ words) PHOENIX, Ariz. – Hector Ambrosio Ruiz, 30, of Mexico, was arrested yesterday and charged by criminal complaint for Harboring Illegal Aliens. Four of the illegal aliens, Hugo Ipolito Ramirez-Vasquez, Eulogio Perez-Sanchez, Santos Antonio Giron-Castro and Obias Alexander Perez-Perez, were also arrested and…...

3+ hour, 35+ min ago   (813+ words) The Tohono O'odham Nation has filed an emergency injunction to stop the removal of thousands of saguaros and other vegetation to construct a border wall. Contractors for the federal government were set to begin clearing the saguaros on Oct. 12, which…...

4+ hour, 36+ min ago   (158+ words) This is not the first time Hathaway has staked out a combative position on border-wall construction in the county. In an earlier dispute, he threatened action against contractors hired by then-Governor Doug Ducey's office to build a shipping-container border wall,…...