It was not clear after arguments that stretched past two hours and turned highly contentious at times whether the justices would allow the policy to take effect, or side with Republican-led states that have so far succeeded in blocking it.
Prosecutors in the state of Baja California Sur said they had approached Mexican federal prosecutors and diplomats to try to get the woman extradited to face charges.
A coalition of conservative-leaning states is trying to keep in place a Trump-era public health rule that allows many asylum seekers to be turned away at the southern U.S. border.
A Senate investigation has found that U.S. immigration authorities didn’t do enough to adequately vet or monitor a gynecologist in rural Georgia who performed unnecessary medical procedures on detained migrant women without their consent.
By The Associated Press and ELLIOT SPAGAT Associated Press
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said her husband, Paul Pelosi, was released from the hospital Thursday after his treatment for injuries from a violent assault last week in which he was attacked with a hammer.
A Colorado businessman was convicted Friday of charges that he and others siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars from an online fundraiser to build a wall along the U.S. southern border despite a promise to donors that every cent would go toward building the wall.
Customs and Border Protection officers in Nogales last year seized millions of fentanyl pills, thousands of pounds of methamphetamine and quadrupled the amount of cocaine seized over the previous year. CBP officers at the Nogales port use K-9 teams and imaging systems to detect narcotics.
The sheriff in metropolitan Phoenix said Monday he’s stepped up security around ballot drop boxes after a series of incidents involving people keeping watch on the boxes and taking video of voters after they were apparently inspired by lies about the 2020 election.
The action came two weeks after federal officials told Gov. Doug Ducey to remove containers he had ordered placed along the border near the southwestern Arizona community of Yuma to slow migrants
A surge in migration from Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua in September brought the number of illegal crossings to the highest level ever recorded in a fiscal year.
The tribe complained last month that the state of Arizona acted against its wishes by placing 42 of the double stacks on its land near Yuma to halt illegal border crossings in an area that has become a major entry point for migrants.
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen said that the policy, which is set to proceed under new regulations at the end of the month, can continue with limitations that he previously set.
The group “Reunite Families Coalition” gathered at the Arizona State Capitol on Thursday, calling on Ducey to stop treating migrants like political pawns.
Officials say four Cuban migrants swam to shore in the Florida Keys and three others were rescued from the ocean after their boat sank shortly before Hurricane Ian made landfall in southwestern Florida.
Lawyers for Civil Rights said it was providing free legal services — and investigating whether Florida’s governor may have violated human trafficking laws.
Migrants from at least 115 countries have been stopped at the Arizona border in the last year, but that may be less striking than what’s missing: Mexicans are virtually absent.
The Cocopah Indian Tribe says the state of Arizona acted against its wishes by stacking shipping containers on its land to prevent illegal border crossings.
The alleged smugglers hid the drugs using metal boxes and trap doors in the vehicle, while attempting to cross the Arizona border into the United States.
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