By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and RON NIXON ~ FEB. 21, 2017 WASHINGTON — President Trump has directed his administration to more aggressively enforce the nation’s immigration laws, unleashing the full force of the federal government to find, arrest and deport those in the country illegally, regardless of whether they have committed serious ...

By ADAM LIPTAK, New York Times ~ FEB. 21, 2017 WASHINGTON — In a case that could further roil relations with Mexico, the Supreme Court considered on Tuesday whether the parents of a 15-year-old Mexican boy killed by an American border guard may sue in United States courts. The teenager, Sergio ...

By NICHOLAS KULISH, VIVIAN YEE, CAITLIN DICKERSON, LIZ ROBBINS, FERNANDA SANTOS and JENNIFER MEDINA, The New York Times  ~ FEB. 21, 2017 With an executive order last month and a pair of Department of Homeland Security memos on Tuesday, the Trump administration has significantly hardened the country’s policies regarding illegal immigration. ...

By: THE EDITORIAL BOARD, The New York Times ~ FEB. 21, 2017 The homeland security secretary, John Kelly, issued a remarkable pair of memos on Tuesday. They are the battle plan for the “deportation force” President Trump promised in the campaign. They are remarkable for how completely they turn sensible immigration policies ...

POR: REDACCIÓN, La Opinión ~ 21 FEBRERO 2017 Autoridades federales y del estado de Tijuana indagan el presunto suicidio de Guadalupe Olivas Valencia, un migrante que había sido deportado por EEUU al menos en tres ocasiones, la última este mismo martes Un hombre se suicidó al arrojarse del Puente México, en la ...

By FERNANDA SANTOS, The New York Times ~ FEB. 20, 2017 During his frenetic first week in office, President Trump made good on a core campaign pledge to overhaul the nation’s immigration enforcement. With the stroke of a pen, he redefined the meaning of “criminal alien” by vastly expanding the criteria ...

By NOLAN D. MCCASKILL, Politico ~ Feb. 16, 2017 President Donald Trump signaled an openness Thursday to soften his campaign-era hard-line stance on immigration, suggesting he will work with Congress to protect undocumented immigrants who entered the country undocumented as children. “We are gonna deal with DACA with heart,” Trump pledged ...

By Katherine Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher Education ~ FEBRUARY 16, 2017 The arrest and threatened deportation of a 23-year-old Mexican immigrant who was brought to the country illegally when he was 7 — but had a valid work permit under President Obama’s deferred-action program — has rekindled the fears of ...

Why is immigration such a problem for the Democratic Party? By: Thomas B. Edsall, New York Times ~ FEB. 16, 2017 The issue splits traditional Democratic constituencies. It pits groups with competing material interests against each other, but it also brings those with vested psychological interests into conflict as Hispanics, African-Americans, labor ...

By Brian Bennett and Michael A. Memoli, Los Angeles Times ~ Feb. 16, 2017 http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-daca-20170216-story.html While President Trump wavered Thursday on whether he will stop shielding from deportation people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, his aides have identified at least two ways to quietly end their protections without his ...