SPOKANE, Wash. — Forty-nine immigrants will become U.S. citizens on Friday. To celebrate Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington will welcome them during a…
Refugees in Spokane have come so far, overcoming difficult situations in their home country and starting their lives over in America. Doing that through a pandemic makes things harder.
They live in different places, work at different universities and dedicate their careers to studying different topics. But there's one thing at least four of this year's US Nobel Prize laureates share.
One hundred people from 40 nations became U.S. citizens in Spokane on Tuesday.
Democrats running for president have said they would support extending government health care coverage to undocumented immigrants -- a big shift, since undocumented immigrants currently have little access to federal programs.
The US signed an asylum agreement Friday afternoon with Guatemala that could limit the ability of some Central American migrants to claim asylum in the US.
Local community advocates held a vigil Friday night to protest the conditions at the migrant detention camps.
Since immigrating to the United States in 2002, the Alvarez family has struggled to find Argentinian foods that they enjoyed so much back home; especially empanadas!
US Border Patrol agents are searching the Rio Grande River for a missing 2-year-old girl.
On Wednesday, a local food truck announced their support for immigrants and refugees in our community by hosting a special event of sorts.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has placed 5,200 adult immigrants in quarantine after being exposed to mumps or chicken pox, a dramatic jump from just a few months ago, the agency says.
The Supreme Court held on Tuesday that the government can detain -- without a bond hearing -- immigrants with past criminal records, even if years have passed since they were released from criminal custody.
The Trump administration said Thursday it will restrict the ability of those crossing illegally to seek asylum on the southern US border, in a move previewed by the President last week.
The migrants are hundreds of miles from the United States border but they are already coming under fire from President Donald Trump at rallies and in tweets.
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants who feared they could soon be facing deportation got a reprieve Wednesday, when a federal judge in California temporarily blocked one of the Trump administration's major immigration moves.
Maria and Oscar Hernandez Miranda had been preparing for the marriage interview portion of Oscar's immigration application for a year and a half. As they sat in a Miami immigration office for the interview last week, the couple, who married in September 2015, was suddenly interrupted by the interviewer.
The United States admitted 22,491 refugees in the last fiscal year -- one of the lowest amounts on record.
The Department of Homeland Security was "not fully prepared" for the rollout of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy at the US-Mexico border that resulted in the large numbers of family separations this summer, according to an internal report from the department's watchdog.
The women say they were treated like dogs and told that their children would be given up for adoption. They lied awake at night, wondering if their kids were safe.
The Trump administration on Saturday revealed its plan to make it harder for immigrants to come to or stay in the United States if they or their family may use certain public benefits.
A senior Trump administration official on Tuesday stood by his controversial comments comparing the detention centers for immigrant families to "summer camp," but declined to answer whether he'd send his own children there.
The European Commission has dismissed Italy's threat to withhold funding to the bloc next year unless other member states accept migrants currently held on a ship moored in Sicily.
Staffers at FWD.us, the advocacy group co-founded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and other tech leaders, do what they can to reform the nation's immigration laws.
Did you know you can donate your frequent flyer miles to help reunite families who were separated at the US-Mexico border?
