Galina Zhalybina and her husband left Russia after the country invaded Ukraine. Like many Russian families, they crossed from Mexico into the U.S. and eventually landed in New York City. Despite challenging conditions in their new home, Zhalybina says she is not planning to go back...

   More than, migrants died or went missing while trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe so far in , a U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees official said Thursday. By September , over, people were accounted as dead or missing in alone, Ruven Menikdiwela, director of the...

   With congressional leaders gridlocked over the nation’s budget and the deadline to pass spending bills fast approaching, the federal government could shut down on October . And that can affect some immigration services and visa programs. If the federal government closes, only essential...

   Survey shows that despite hardships, immigrants believe their children will have a better future

   A group of migrants from China surrendered to a Border Patrol agent in remote Southern California as gusts of wind drowned the hum of high voltage power lines. They joined others from Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia and elsewhere in a desert campsite with shelters made from tree branches. Their...

   The surge of migrants crossing the U.S. border from Mexico has pushed the city of El Paso, Texas, to a breaking point, with more than, people per day seeking asylum, exceeding shelter capacity and straining resources, its mayor said Saturday. The city of El Paso only has so many...

   Thousands of migrants have made their way illegally into Greece from Turkey, using rickety rafts to cross the Aegean, the narrow waterway between the two countries. United Nations data in September shows sea arrivals have already more than doubled the roughly , migrants who were caught...

   Editor’s note: Here is a look at immigration related news around the U.S. this week. Questions Tips Comments Email the VOA immigration team: ImmigrationUnit voanews.com. Texas City Sees Jump in Irregular Migrant Crossings U.S. immigration authorities reported a significant uptick in...

   From a White House podium in May, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas outlined new legal pathways to the United States for Venezuelans and others, along with a very clear message for those come illegally. Our borders are not open. People who cross our border unlawfully and...

   U.S. immigration authorities reported a significant uptick in unauthorized border crossings at the U.S. Mexico border Thursday, particularly in areas like Eagle Pass, Texas, where the mayor has issued a state of emergency. U.S. Border Patrol officers apprehended about, migrants along the...

   New York City is hosting world leaders at the United Nations this week. But it is also facing a crisis because border states such as Texas are sending hundreds of migrants to the city each day. Jorge Agobian has the story in this report narrated by Aline Barros.

   Editor’s note: Here is a look at immigration related news around the U.S. this week. Questions Tips Comments Email the VOA immigration team: ImmigrationUnit voanews.com. Federal Judge Says DACA Is Illegal, So What’s Next A federal judge has ruled again that the Deferred Action for...

   Mexican journalist Emilio Gutierrez Soto has won his asylum appeal to remain in the United States, years after seeking refuge amid fear of persecution in Mexico and deportation efforts by U.S. officials, a media organization said on Thursday. The Board of Immigration Appeals this week ruled...

   A federal judge has ruled again that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is illegal. The policy protected from deportation hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. The decision does not immediately affect DACA recipients, whose...

   A federal judge on Wednesday declared illegal a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen agreed with Texas and eight other states suing to stop the Deferred Action...

   A Mexican citizen taken into custody for allegedly driving without U.S. papers and transporting undocumented people was one of the first people to be arrested under Florida’s controversial SB , considered the most restrictive state law regarding migrants in the United States. Police records...

   Editor’s note: Here is a look at immigration related news around the U.S. this week. Questions Tips Comments Email the VOA immigration team: ImmigrationUnit voanews.com. Children Fleeing Latin America in Record Numbers, UN Says A record number of children from Latin America and the...

   A federal appeals court on Thursday allowed Texas’ floating barrier on a section of the Rio Grande to stay in place for now, a day after a judge called the buoys a threat to the safety of migrants and relations between the U.S. and Mexico. The order by the th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals puts...

   A U.S. judge ordered Texas to move floating buoys that were placed in the middle of the Rio Grande to block migrants from illegally crossing the U.S. Mexico border, a tentative win for President Joe Biden, whose administration sued the state. U.S. District Court Judge David Ezra on Wednesday...

   As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away. The ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab sits between a bullring, a lighthouse and the border wall, which extends into the Pacific Ocean. ...