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Pushback by Democrats was growing on Wednesday against Republican proposals for major asylum reforms to be tied to a funding package that includes aid for Ukraine.

Activists mobilized by this grassroots group had one thing in common: They wanted to fight Trump. Can they agree on what comes next?

A group of people came together on the 20th anniversary of the Department of Homeland Security to call on President Biden to close ICE detention facilities.

Biden’s budget calls for a 26 percent reduction in immigration detention, and ICE is reducing the use of some jails.

The US President’s plan is an appeal based on reality, recognising new dangers both around the globe and at home, where inflation and crime are crushing his political standing.

The president’s budget addresses the main attack lines that Republicans are using against him and his Democratic allies in Congress in the run-up to the midterm congressional elections.

Joe Biden’s Immigration Acid Test The battle for reform offers the new administration a chance to exorcise Trumpism and prove it has agenda-setting grit. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Activists and citizens with temporary protected status march toward the White House in a call for Congress and the Biden administration to pass immigration reform legislation. Last week, Democrats introduced the U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021—a comprehensive immigration bill that will evidently be one of the Biden ...

As President-elect Joe Biden enters office with a Democrat-controlled Congress by his side, immigration rights advocates are calling on his administration to shift resources out of the country’s sprawling immigration enforcement system and into community services. But with billions of taxpayer dollars already earmarked for detention and deportation, and powerful political and corporate interests aligned to continue operations, Biden will face hurdles to making transformative changes, experts ...