To Detain More Immigrants, Trump Administration to Speed Border Hiring

By VIVIAN YEE and RON NIXON April 12, 2017 The Trump administration has begun the detail work of stiffening the country’s immigration infrastructure, according to an internal memo from the Department of Homeland Security, moving to speed the...

California Moves to Become ‘Sanctuary State,’ and Others Look to Follow

By JENNIFER MEDINA and JESS BIDGOOD April 10, 2017 A 42-year-old immigrant was on her way to church in Mendota, a small city in California’s Central Valley, one afternoon last month when the police stopped her because the tinted windows on...

Mayor Says Indiana Man’s Deportation ‘Feels Like a Defeat for Our Community’

By MAYA SALAM April 7, 2017 Roberto Beristain, a 43-year-old undocumented immigrant, had lived in the United States for nearly 20 years. He and his wife of 17 years, Helen, an American, were raising their four children in St. Joseph’s County, Ind., and...

‘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,...

‘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...