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