The number of deportation proceedings against undocumented immigrants set a record for August, but the increases only highlighted the fact that backlogged immigration courts are unable to handle them, according to an analysis released last week.
In Ohio and across the country, 77 percent of rural counties have been losing working-age people since the Great Recession of 2008-09, a new demographic analysis says. And if nothing changes, the problem will get much worse, it projects.
A bipartisan group of six U.S. House lawmakers on Tuesday described details of proposed legislation that would create a legal pathway for citizenship for undocumented people through work requirements and would also fund border security measures.
The Biden administration Thursday announced the use of processing centers in Colombia and Guatemala to create legal pathways for migrants, in preparation for the ending of a pandemic-era tool used to expel migrants that is expected to cease in May.