A challenge to the Biden administration's immigration parole program has reached a hitch, as a new party seeks to intervene in the case. The program, targeted by states for being outside the bounds of executive authority, allows for the temporary admission of immigrants for humanitarian reasons.

Kamala Harris's policy platform primarily features five key positions that the 2024 Vice President has announced as she pursues the nomination for president this year. She calls for protection of abortion rights, action against climate change, and passage of comprehensive immigration reform.

With government spending set to expire, Republicans have used the debate over the budget to elevate immigration into view, attaching funding measures to border security. GOP members are pushing for more government spending on enforcement at the border and harder-line immigration policies, tying those demands into larger negotiations on the budget.

With the 2024 election nearing its peak, immigration has emerged as one of the hottest debates between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump is for hardline policies for the control of borders through mass deportations, similar to his former administration, and a secure, high wall along the border.

In a statement, former President Donald Trump announced his vision for harsher immigration laws when he presumably returns to power in 2024, proposing mass deportations and further sanitizing the borders. He said that he would restore and extend his previous hardline immigration policy, focusing on the most severe enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Biden administration's reliance on immigration parole programs has been subject to growing legal pushback from Republican-led states who say such policies bypass federal immigration laws and Congress. To be sure, immigration parole permits temporary entry into the United States on humanitarian grounds, but challenges question whether those policies exceed executive authority.

In a year in which debate over noncitizen voting is growing nationally, Republican lawmakers in states like Texas, Tennessee, and Alabama are pushing bills to restrict such voting even though it's already illegal in federal and most state elections. Proponents say such measures are necessary to preserve the integrity of elections, while opponents counter that these are solutions in search of a problem and will disenfranchise eligible voters.

The Biden administration is expanding a program that allows migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to enter the U.S. legally through sponsorship by American citizens. That initiative offers a legal and safer alternative to irregular migration routes that have been fraught with danger and exploitation.

The U.S. is presently undergoing a sea wave of immigration, the biggest in decades, as millions seek safety and better economic opportunities. Since 2020, over nine million people have migrated to the U.S., both legally and illegally. That has caused overall population growth to swell by nearly 1.2% annually - compared with the 0.2% at which it would otherwise be growing due to falling birth rates.

Springfield, Ohio, was thrown into the middle of the national immigration debate in the wake of a tragic school bus crash last August that killed an 11-year-old boy and injured 23 other children. The driver in that crash was a Haitian immigrant-a fact that heightened local anxieties about the number of Haitian immigrants pouring into this part of America.