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The US has relied on immigrants through many of its biggest conflicts, but that doesn’t protect them from deportation, Josh Marcus reports

MIAMI — Several Cuban migrants slated for deportation — whose confidential information Immigration and Customs Enforcement accidentally published online last month — received letters this week saying the agency is evaluating whether to free them from custody after a U.S official told Cuba about the unprecedented leak.

The Biden administration stopped enrolling new asylum seekers into the Trump-era program in August.

A Texas federal judge again stopped a Biden administration attempt to end a Trump-era program forcing asylum-seekers back to Mexico.

A Texas federal judge on Thursday ruled for a second time that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security can’t end a Trump administration program that forced asylum seekers to wait outside the country while their claims are resolved.

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Compliance manager tells royal commission she was ‘unable to influence’ boss away from ‘deliver the numbers’ direction

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is considering whether to limit the number of Haitians, Cubans and Nicaraguans who can claim asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border while opening other avenues for immigration, but have yet to make any final decisions, several sources told McClatchy and the Miami Herald.

TIJUANA, Mexico — When a Russian family, threatened because of their opposition to the war in Ukraine, recently arrived in Tijuana, they tried every tactic they'd heard of to reach the United States and request asylum.