During a visit this week to the U.S.-Mexico border, Vice President Kamala Harris urged balance in administration immigration policies protecting America's borders while treating migrants humanely. Harris emphasized how the administration is zeroing in on creating pathways for legal immigration and root drivers of migration-poverty and violence in Central America.

In his 2024 bid for the presidency, Donald Trump has for the first time targeted cutting legal immigration. This is a shift from his earlier messages, which have been firmly planted on illegal immigration. Trump has vowed to cut back family-based visas, employment-based green cards, and other legal pathways through which immigrants have gained access to U.S. territory and a means to remain in it.

Donald Trump's mass deportation plan, aiming at removing the million undocumented immigrants from the U.S., may reach an astonishing price tag of almost 1 trillion dollars over the next twenty years. This would be an enormous cost induced by enforcement, courtroom proceedings, detention, and economic consequence as a result of taking away millions of workers.

Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday pushed back against recent criticism of the Biden administration's handling of immigration and border control in an interview that aired on 60 Minutes. Harris told the interviewer she was aware of the hard conditions at the U.S.-Mexico border, of course, the humanitarian issue, but added "we're trying to balance it with elevating national security and opening legal paths so people don't have to take a dangerous path.

Donald Trump is laying out a hard-hitting plan for an immigration system remake as he readies his bid for the presidency in 2024. Plans include slashing authorized avenues such as family-based visas and asylum programs, while drastically upping deportations.

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, known as Dreamers, who were brought to the United States as children under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. A decision in the case will decide whether the Biden administration can continue to maintain the protections afforded by DACA, including work permits and protection from deportation.

For the second time, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program is winding its way back before the Fifth Circuit Court amid escalating legal jockeying over its future. It's among the biggest cases to determine how long the Biden administration's efforts to protect people brought into the country as children-known as Dreamers will survive judicial scrutiny.

Migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have reached their lowest numbers since Biden became president. This follows a more hard-nosed immigration policy from the administration, including stricter asylum rules and a broader push for legal immigration avenues.

The United States has recorded its biggest annual gain in immigrant population in two decades, with about 2 million new foreign-born residents arriving in the country between 2022 and 2023. Reasons for this vary, from shifting migration policies to heavy migration from countries such as Venezuela and Cuba, amid an influx of asylum seekers.

The Biden administration is facing renewed criticism over its asylum rules amid a spate of rising border crossings. The asylum rules - put in place for the first time in May - force migrants to seek asylum through legal pathways and limit asylum access for those who cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.