President Joe Biden 's policy granting legal status to some spouses of U.S. citizens who entered the country illegally has been struck down by a federal judge appointed by President-elect Donald Trump.

The Trump administration could be a boon for business for private prison companies in the U.S. if the president-elect delivers on his promise to crack down on illegal immigration.

Border security was once a top concern, but falling illegal crossings and concerns around abortion appear to have shifted opinion.

Immigration was a major theme of President-elect Donald Trump's campaign, where he pledged a mass deportation. Polls show he still won many votes from Latino Americans.

President-elect Donald Trump made the border and immigration a key focus of his campaign, and promised to conduct mass deportations.

Immigration advocates and civil rights groups are preparing to take on President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promises to  crack down on immigration, from reviving controversial policies of his first term to enacting mass deportations.

Arizona voters are set to decide whether to let local police arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the state from Mexico.

If a crackdown really does come to pass, it could result in at least some closures of hotels currently sheltering migrants. However, Dandapani did not see these potential closures as a particularly big problem for the industry but rather as something that could help fix New York's supply-and-demand imbalance.

A federal judge on Thursday struck down a policy aimed at helping undocumented spouses of US citizens obtain legal status, dealing a blow to outgoing President Joe Biden and an estimated half a million people eligible under the program.

Tuesday's election saw significant laws and regulations passed on the state level through various ballot measures.

In November 1994, immigrants and their families found themselves under siege as California voters overwhelmingly passed into law Proposition 187, a ballot initiative that sought to deny basic social services—such as healthcare and education—to undocumented immigrants and their families.