Andrea Castillo covers immigration. Before joining the Los Angeles Times, she covered immigrant, ethnic and LGBTQ+ communities for the Fresno Bee. She got her start at the Oregonian in Portland. A native of Seattle, she’s been making her way down the West Coast since her graduation from Washington State University.
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Trump revoked two large-scale Biden policies that extended temporary protection to migrants. ‘The court plainly botched this,’ Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a dissent.
The girl’s family received notice last month that their legal status had been terminated, warning them to leave the U.S. on their own. Doing so would put the girl at immediate risk of death, doctors say.
In 2023, a Mexican girl, 4, was allowed U.S. entry for lifesaving medical care. She and her parents, who live in Bakersfield, have been told they must leave.
Acting ICE director says U.S. is using ‘safe third countries’ to remove public safety threats. Lawyers argue the immigrants — from Myanmar, Vietnam, Cuba, South Sudan and Mexico — were denied due process.
The Supreme Court agreed that Trump can repeal former President Biden’s immigration policies and seek to deport those who had a temporary shield.
Supreme Court faults Texas judges and Trump lawyers for seeking deportation before detained men could be heard.
California receives over $15.7 billion in transportation grants and $20.6 billion in homeland security grants annually. The funding could be in jeopardy under an administration policy.
Homeland Security officials have said welfare checks aim to ensure that unaccompanied children “are safe and not being exploited, abused, and sex trafficked.”
Senators question Rodney Scott, who formerly led the U.S. Border Patrol and is now the nominee to lead its parent agency, about the brutal 2010 beating of a migrant by agents.
One order directs the attorney general and Homeland Security secretary to publish a list of state and local jurisdictions that ‘obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws.’