A Somali community leader who claims to have known Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) for an extensive period of time said she married her brother to help him stay in the United States. 
Former vice president Joe Biden's lack of a forceful defense for Obama administration immigration policies is a failure of messaging, Washington Free Beacon editor in chief Eliana Johnson said Sunday. 
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders dismissed his past anti-immigration stances as old news despite championing them as late as June 2015. 
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. 
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. 
Multiple 2020 Democrats have voiced interest in or support for a freeze on deportation of illegal immigrants, a move that immigration expert Jessica Vaughn said would effectively put an end to border enforcement. 
The record number of illegal immigrants apprehended at the southern border represents a "humanitarian crisis" that is straining the resources of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, according to the agency. 
Nearly 400,000 green card immigrants would lose out on green cards for failing to meet the Trump administration's new insurance requirements, according to an analysis from the non-partisan Migration Policy Institute. 
Virginia turned down hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal money used to combat gun crime in 2018, rather than comply with federal immigration authorities, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. 