‘Don’t Open the Door’: How Fear of an Immigration Raid Gripped a City

By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and JESS BIDGOOD April 6, 2017 BROCKTON, Mass. — For days, it was the only topic of conversation. Immigration agents were said to be planning a raid. They could come any minute. In this fraying, blue-collar city,...

U.S. Appetite for Mexico’s Drugs Fuels Illegal Immigration

By RON NIXON and FERNANDA SANTOS April 4, 2017 LUKEVILLE, Ariz. — Each year, Mexican drug cartels rake in billions of dollars in profits from the sale of heroin, methamphetamines and other drugs in the United States. The money has to make its...

Visa Applications Pour In by Truckload Before Door Slams Shut

By MIRIAM JORDAN April 3, 2017 LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. — The delivery trucks began arriving with their precious parcels before daybreak Monday, lining up before the massive ziggurat that rises here above Orange County’s suburban sprawl. Each truck...

Visa Applications Pour In by Truckload Before Door Slams Shut

By MIRIAM JORDAN April 3, 2017 LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. — The delivery trucks began arriving with their precious parcels before daybreak Monday, lining up before the massive ziggurat that rises here above Orange County’s suburban sprawl. Each truck...

U.S. Officials Chastise Judge Who Complained of Agents ‘Stalking’

In a letter to California’s chief judge, the attorney general and homeland security secretary defended the practice of making immigration arrests in courthouses.

In Lawsuit After Lawsuit, It’s Everyday People v. Trump

By VIVIAN YEE March 29, 2017 The papers each bore two names, one unknown, the other ubiquitous, facing off across the letter V. The V was important. It meant that in America, anyone could sue the president of the United States and hope to win. In New York,...