U.S. Immigration and Border News

Arrests for illegal crossings from Canada spiked in the last fiscal year, but remain a fraction of the number of those from Mexico.

By Hamed Aleaziz and Matina Stevis-Gridneff

The administration of Mayor Eric Adams is fearful that President-elect Donald J. Trump may target a Brooklyn tent complex housing 2,000 asylum seekers on federal land.

By Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Dana Rubinstein

The president-elect said that he would impose the across-the-board tariffs on Day 1 and that they would stay in place until Canada, Mexico and China halted the flow of drugs and migrants.

By Ana Swanson, Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Simon Romero

New York City’s migrant shelter population has been steadily falling, but President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration stance will bring new challenges.

By Luis Ferré-Sadurní

Donald Trump’s promise to carry out mass deportations has driven fearful immigrants to seek protections and advice.

By Miriam Jordan

A longtime vendor in Manhattan’s Chinatown is finding it harder to make a living as people shun his intricate crafts, haggle over cheap knickknacks and shift their spending online.

By Rong Xiaoqing

On Sunday, Angel Lata Landi, a construction worker, called his mother in Ecuador, whom he helped support. The next day, he was one of three people stabbed to death on the street in Manhattan.

By Shayla Colon

The move by Gov. Greg Abbott, flouting a federal challenge, signaled that Texas expects to have a freer hand on the border under President-elect Donald J. Trump.

By J. David Goodman

In other testimony, law enforcement witnesses placed the suspect, José Ibarra, at the scene of Ms. Riley’s killing, mainly through cellphone and GPS tracking data.

By Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon

Mr. Trump’s top immigration policy adviser has discussed using military assets to build detention centers and support civilian immigration agents.

By Charlie Savage and Michael Gold

A record 146,000 students did not have permanent housing, state data shows, as the city dealt with an ongoing housing crisis and an influx of migrants.

By Claire Fahy

Mr. Trump has criticized the Biden administration for what he calls its lax handling of the border — but it has left him with tools he can use to shut down the border.

By Hamed Aleaziz

Democrats struggled to respond to real and manufactured challenges as voters grew more concerned over the number of people crossing the border.

By Jazmine Ulloa and Ruth Igielnik

The president-elect has vowed to end a program that allows thousands of people from troubled nations to stay in the United States.

By Miriam Jordan and Hamed Aleaziz

The governor of South Dakota has defied coronavirus restrictions and been a vocal critic of President Biden’s immigration policies.

By Mark Walker

Ms. Noem, the governor of South Dakota, would play a major role in carrying out the president-elect’s promises to crack down on the border and deport millions of people.

By Hamed Aleaziz

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name the immigration hard-liner Stephen Miller as deputy chief of staff and announced a former ICE official as his “border czar.”

By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

While other big state Democrats are reviving the resistance, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York says she is open to working with Donald J. Trump where possible.

By Nicholas Fandos and Grace Ashford

“We were going out huntin’,” one of the men said in a video before a planned trip to the Mexico border, where they intended to shoot at immigrants and officials who might stop them, prosecutors said.

By Adeel Hassan

Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has vowed to prevent mass deportations, but migrants and immigration lawyers are preparing for them.

By Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Wesley Parnell

Mayor Eric Adams is ending a contentious pilot program that gave 2,600 migrant families debit cards to purchase food.

By Emma G. Fitzsimmons

After supporting Joe Biden in 2020, the majority-Arab American city outside Detroit delivered an unlikely win for Donald Trump, who promised to bring peace to the Middle East.

By Hamed Aleaziz

Voters across party lines shifted to the right on immigration. They blamed Biden-Harris for failing to control the chaotic border.

By Miriam Jordan

Democrats had attacked Donald J. Trump’s ties to the conservative policy blueprint for reshaping the federal government. Several of its authors served in his administration.

By Neil Vigdor and Simon J. Levien

Donald J. Trump’s return to the White House could significantly affect a range of issues in his hometown, including immigration policy and congestion pricing.

By Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Luis Ferré-Sadurní

Five years ago, the raids upended life for immigrant families in poultry towns, but the industry still runs on their work.

By Isabelle Taft and Juan Arredondo

Even as violence crime rates fall, Republicans have sought to tie murders and drug overdoses to migrants. Here’s a rundown of crime rates in swing states.

By Shaila Dewan, Michael Corkery and Tim Arango

President Biden’s legacy will largely be limited to his success in lowering border crossings. But his approach has drawn criticism, and some of his actions have moved the problem deeper into the country.

By Michael D. Shear and Hamed Aleaziz

Kamala Harris is hoping that backlash to the bigotry at the Madison Square Garden rally will blunt Donald Trump’s appeal with a critical group of voters.

By Jennifer Medina and Hannah Beier

Representative Yadira Caraveo of Colorado, whose parents entered the country illegally from Mexico, has become one of several Democrats to pivot to a pro-enforcement message.

By Karoun Demirjian

In the former president’s pitch to voters, historians hear echoes of the nation’s inescapable xenophobic history.

By Jazmine Ulloa

The New York Times is writing about voters’ attitudes on immigration and how they changed since the last election cycle.

By Miriam Jordan

The former president believes his focus on illegal immigration is the reason he won in 2016, and this year, he has pushed his advisers to add content related to it.

By Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

Donald J. Trump’s anti-immigrant message is exposing longstanding tensions and challenging Democrats’ hopes for solidarity.

By Jennifer Medina

The migrant crisis has emerged as a dominant theme in House races across New York State and even in the presidential race.

By Shayla Colon

As administrations of both parties have failed to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, a reckoning for the asylum system, which some say is overdue, seems inevitable.

By Jazmine Ulloa and Hamed Aleaziz

Across New York State, Republican and Democratic candidates are using the city’s migrant crisis to attract voters fearful of its effects on their districts.

By Luis Ferré-Sadurní

The endorsement has roiled Hamtramck, Mich., angering many in the Muslim community, as well as longtime residents who welcomed the newcomers.

By Kurt Streeter

A humanitarian program offers immigrant crime victims who cooperate with the police a chance to stay in the United States. But most spend years in legal limbo.

By Deborah Sontag

At a rally in a state he lost in 2020, the former president considered the possibility of another defeat.

By Shawn McCreesh

The former president’s sweeping immigration proposals face daunting challenges, but voters still trust his positions more than his opponent’s.

By Zolan Kanno-Youngs

Latino voters said they were open to Donald J. Trump’s immigration policies and hungry for change. Many remain undecided.

By Jennifer Medina, Ruth Igielnik and Jazmine Ulloa

The former president continued to make claims about the city that have been disputed by local officials, including its Republican mayor.

By Michael Gold and Jonathan Weisman

The former president held rally in a Colorado city he falsely claims was overtaken by violent immigrants from Venezuela. The city’s leaders, Republicans and Democrats alike, tried to pre-emptively fact-check him.

By Jonathan Weisman

A young family came to love the city where they rebuilt their lives and bought a home. Since a false rumor spread, they have scrapped outings, even to the park.

By Miriam Jordan

The event in Las Vegas featured emotional questions from voters on health care and the economy — and displayed the balance Kamala Harris is seeking on tough border rules and paths to citizenship.

By Nicholas Nehamas, Jazmine Ulloa and Jack Healy

An appeals court is considering a challenge that could end DACA, which has allowed hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants to live and work in the United States.

By Miriam Jordan and Mattathias Schwartz

In discussing migrants and genes, the former president used language that reflected his decades-long belief that bloodlines determine a person’s capacity for success or violence.

By Michael Gold

A federal appeals court will consider the future of DACA, which has allowed hundreds of thousands of undocumented young people to live and work in the United States.

By Miriam Jordan and Mattathias Schwartz

The former president and his allies, who often decry undocumented immigrants, are targeting programs that allow millions of people to enter the country lawfully.

By Jazmine Ulloa and Hamed Aleaziz

The decision comes as political pressure mounts to cut down on programs that allow migrants to stay in the United States temporarily, even without a visa or green card.

By Hamed Aleaziz

In Arizona and other states, the activists are accusing Latino advocacy groups of registering undocumented immigrants. Canvassers are growing concerned about safety.

By Jack Healy

A Republican group is using misleading language about the Montana senator’s support for a bipartisan immigration bill in 2013 to accuse him of selling out to the Washington establishment.

By Kellen Browning

Language and other barriers are hobbling the flow of assistance to hard-hit communities where affordable housing drew growing numbers of Hispanic migrants.

By Edgar Sandoval

He again disparaged Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, and said he would end their legal status in the country and send them back. His first attempt to do that failed.

By Maggie Astor

An ad from two Democratic groups skates over Kamala Harris’s tough recent stance on border security and instead focuses on her more immigration-friendly plans.

By Nicholas Nehamas

Biden administration officials have credited the policy for leading to the dramatic reduction in illegal crossings.

By Hamed Aleaziz

The lifelong Republican employs fewer Haitians than others in Springfield, but his life has been upended since Donald J. Trump spread falsehoods about immigrants in his hometown.

By Miriam Jordan

Vice President Kamala Harris vowed to combat the flow of fentanyl into the country when she visited the border on Friday. Former President Donald J. Trump ratcheted up his false claims in response.

By Neil Vigdor

Eau Claire had a plan. But opponents, mostly from rural areas, were convinced that the newcomers would destroy their Midwestern way of life.

By Kurt Streeter

Donald Trump used a pair of events to try to blame Kamala Harris for inflation and the migrant crisis, tapping into themes that helped him win Michigan in 2016.

By Neil Vigdor and Michael Gold

Vowing to carry on President Biden’s crackdown on asylum and to impose order on the southern border, the vice president demonstrated how much the politics of immigration have changed.

By Nicholas Nehamas, Hamed Aleaziz and Reid J. Epstein

Former President Donald J. Trump turned his sights on Charleroi, Pa., where many Haitians have settled in recent years, and he fueled a fire that was already smoldering.

By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

The employee, Derek Klever, told a witness that he was fed up with migrants partying at the shelter across from his apartment, according to court documents. “This is a war,” he said.

By Luis Ferré-Sadurní

Visiting the border on Friday in Arizona, the vice president will try to neutralize a key vulnerability, and will demonstrate her party’s harder line on immigration.

By Nicholas Nehamas, Jazmine Ulloa and Kellen Browning

The Ohio sheriff who urged his followers to record the addresses of people with yard signs supporting Vice President Kamala Harris will no longer head security at the county’s early voting location.

By Tim Balk

His focus on Charleroi, Pa., comes after his debunked claims about Haitian migrants in an Ohio community helped stir a firestorm over immigration there.

By Neil Vigdor and Simon J. Levien

During a trip to Arizona, Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to make her first visit to the southern border since becoming the Democratic nominee.

By Reid J. Epstein and Nicholas Nehamas

Law enforcement officials are working to curb the growth of Tren de Aragua, a gang that began in a Venezuelan prison and has been linked to crimes in other countries and several states in the U.S.

By James Barron

Former President Donald J. Trump’s false comments about pet-eating Haitian immigrants are the latest in a pattern of attacks against people from the Caribbean nation.

By Michael D. Shear

Vice President Kamala Harris is trying to build support among Latino voters as polls show Americans trust former President Donald J. Trump over Democrats on the border.

By Zolan Kanno-Youngs

After Donald J. Trump spread a debunked rumor about the city’s Haitian immigrants, schools have endured dozens of bomb threats.

By Kevin Williams and Miriam Jordan

The claim that Aurora, Colo., has been overrun by gun-toting migrants stemmed from the city’s fight with a landlord. Now it is central to one of former President Donald J. Trump’s anti-immigrant campaign promises.

By Jonathan Weisman and Michael Ciaglo

Tension hangs over the city after a week of closings and lockdowns, and the strain of recent months has led some Haitian immigrants to consider moving to bigger cities.

By Kevin Williams

Businesses needed workers, and Haitians, many already authorized to work, heard living costs were low. But the newcomers have strained resources, and that has fueled tension.

By Miriam Jordan

After former President Donald J. Trump spread debunked claims that immigrants from Haiti were eating pets, his son cast more aspersions on Haitian immigrants.

By Simon J. Levien

The former president has repeatedly leveled baseless and exaggerated claims about migrants in Springfield, Ohio, and Aurora, Colo.

By Michael Gold and Jonathan Swan

Springfield, Ohio, is caught in the middle of the nation’s political wars after former President Donald J. Trump made a debunked claim about Haitian immigrants and pets.

By Miriam Jordan and Peter Baker

Springfield, which has attracted thousands of Haitians, has been at the center of a fiery immigration debate and baseless rumors amplified by Donald J. Trump and JD Vance.

By Miriam Jordan

The singer denounced the former president, singling out the impact of his administration’s family separations policy in Arizona, and endorsed Kamala Harris.

By Maggie Astor

Former President Donald J. Trump has long tried to stoke fear about immigration. Now, he’s doubling down as the presidential race heats up.

By Michael D. Shear, Hamed Aleaziz and Jazmine Ulloa

The city manager in Springfield, Ohio, said it was disappointing that the presidential race was amplifying a bizarre narrative about the city’s immigrants.

By Tim Balk

Supporters of Donald J. Trump and Kamala Harris are taking the debate’s spiciest moments for inspiration in memes, video reels and fake photos.

By Jazmine Ulloa

Nathan Clark says the candidates are exploiting his son’s death in a crash caused by an immigrant outside the small city of Springfield. “This needs to stop now.”

By Miriam Jordan

Kamala Harris has backed away from some progressive positions she took in the 2020 primaries. Donald Trump has changed his stripes on a host of issues big and small, sometimes repeatedly.

By Maggie Astor and Simon J. Levien

The Republican vice-presidential nominee acknowledged that an outlandish claim he had amplified about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating pets could “turn out to be false.”

By Chris Cameron

Here’s what Vice President Harris and former President Donald J. Trump have done and want to do on abortion, crime, democracy, the economy, immigration, Israel and Gaza, and Social Security and Medicare.

By Maggie Astor

Margarita Solito and her family fled violence and poverty in El Salvador, hoping to build a better life in San Francisco. The city often wasn’t what they thought it would be.

By Heather Knight and Loren Elliott

Gov. Gavin Newsom of California rejected a Democratic proposal that would have extended first-time home-buyer loans to some undocumented immigrants. Republicans had widely criticized the bill.

By Shawn Hubler

American citizens whose spouses have been deported face wrenching decisions on what is best for their future, especially when they have children.

By Christina Morales