Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders dismissed his past anti-immigration stances as old news despite championing them as late as June 2015. 
California governor Gavin Newsom on Friday announced his state spending plan to extend health care coverage to illegal immigrants who are seniors under California’s Medi-Cal program, a part of his most recent effort for statewide health care coverage.
Texas governor Greg Abbott (R.) on Friday told the State Department that his state will become the first in the nation to refuse federal refugee resettlement. 
Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden on Sunday told supporters that he would require illegal immigrants to learn English to gain citizenship, a controversial proposal entirely absent from his publicly available immigration platform. 
The MS-13 gang in Suffolk County, New York, has been rendered "inoperable" following a massive inter-agency operation, law enforcement officials said Friday. 
New York enacted a "Green Light" law, which went into effect last weekend, allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver licenses without having to provide proof of citizenship. 
Forced to divert resources to address the border crisis, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 13,000 fewer criminal aliens in 2019 than in 2018. 
On Wednesday several news outlets were forced to retract stories lamenting the number of migrant children detained by U.S. authorities after it emerged the pieces were based on Obama-era figures. 
Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) said her Medicare for All plan covers "everyone regardless of immigration status." 
Singer Brandi Carlile joined two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in dropping out of Fortune’s "Most Powerful Women Summit" because former DHS secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is set to speak. 