Asylum

Valeria Luiselli’s 2017 book “Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions” is an accounting of the author’s time working as an immigration courtroom…

According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, at least 68.5 million people worldwide are displaced from home due to war or persecution. Many choose to…

The new procedure is designed to prevent applicants from remaining in the U.S. while they await a hearing before an immigration judge.

The plan, expected to meet with a swift legal challenge, comes out of talks with Mexican officials. The administration is implementing it first at the San Ysidro, Calif., port of entry.

Thousands of asylum-seekers in Mexico are waiting their turn to ask U.S. border officials for asylum. A volunteer group of doctors and nurses travel to Tijuana weekly to attend to their health needs.

In June, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a ban on asylum-seekers fleeing gang violence or domestic abuse. A federal judge on Wednesday blocked that ban, saying it had "no legal basis."

Updated Oct. 25Two family detention centers in Texas currently hold several dozen immigrant families. They had been reunited in July but then officials…

A record number of migrant families arrived at the Southwest border over the last year, despite the Trump administration's effort to deter illegal immigration by separating families at the border.

Last month, the federal government announced it was expanding the shelter's capacity to 3,800 beds — making it the largest shelter in the system for kids who cross the border solo.

On Fronteras:A San Antonio-based nonprofit steps up to assist asylum seekers and refugees going through the appeals process in immigration court…