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Fighting for a chance to stay, many immigrants wade alone through backlogs and attorney shortages that plague the immigration court system.

The recent announcement around status for Venezuelans in Chicago is a step forward but legal hurdles remain.

CHICAGO — For as long as she can remember, Martha Armenta felt invisible in the only country she knew as home. She grew up in Little Village, where her parents settled after moving to Chicago from Sinaloa, Mexico, escaping poverty and violence, she said. When she learned in high school she was in the U.S. without legal permission, she acknowledged that the dreams her parents sacrificed for ...

For as long as she can remember, Martha Armenta felt invisible in the only country she knew as home. She grew up in Little Village, where her parents settled after moving to Chicago from Sinaloa, Mexico, escaping poverty and violence, she said. When she learned in high school she was in the U.S. without legal permission, she acknowledged that the dreams her parents sacrificed for were going to ...

Frank Sandoval had to leave Venezuela to save his life. After a five-year asylum process, he reunited with his wife and daughter in Chicago.

Tens of thousands of people across Northern California are dealing with continued power outages early Monday, even as more strong winds are forecast along with more rain and high-elevation snow.

A woman was killed in Sacramento Saturday evening after being hit by a falling tree, officials said. A wind advisory is in effect for through Sunday afternoon as a new storm system rolls into the region.

The Sacramento region avoided widespread outages and flooding overnight into Thursday, though wet weather will remain in the forecast this weekend, meteorologists say. That could make flooding a concern over the next week.

Chicago immigration leaders cheered when the Supreme Court gave the green light to the Biden administration to end Trump's ‘Remain in Mexico’ immigration policy. But they cautioned that it changed little for those migrants already living at the border.

Many immigrant rights groups hoped that with a Democrat-controlled Congress — albeit by the smallest of margins — President Joe Biden would deliver comprehensive immigration reform in his first term.