Ted Hesson

A U.S. travel association, a top Democrat, and would-be travelers from Europe and Australia are bristling at President Donald Trump's new plan to require many foreign visitors using the visa waiver program to provide social media handles used over the past five years.

U.S. President Donald Trump is moving to clamp down on legal immigration into the U.S. after an Afghan immigrant was accused of ambushing National Guard members, a crackdown that echoes Trump's first-term restrictions and could face similar challenges.

The Trump administration on Thursday blamed Biden-era vetting failures for the admission of an Afghan immigrant suspected of shooting two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., but the alleged gunman was granted asylum this year under President Donald Trump, according to a U.S. government file seen by Reuters.

U.S. immigration authorities are detaining the mother of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew, officials said on Wednesday, a sign of the wide reach of President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

The Trump administration is again seeking to end humanitarian protection for Haitians in the U.S., saying their legal status will end on February 3, a government notice published on Wednesday said, a move that comes despite spiraling violence in Haiti that has displaced more than 1 million people.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has ordered a broad review of all refugees who entered under former President Joe Biden, an internal U.S. government memo seen by Reuters said, an unprecedented move that could reopen cases of thousands who sought U.S. protection.

The administration soon will decide the fate of a humanitarian program that allowed some people who fled the war in Ukraine to live and work in the United States.

President Donald Trump's administration intends to focus on New Orleans in the next stage of its city-to-city immigration crackdown, one current and two former U.S. immigration officials said on Friday, confirming plans reported earlier this month.

David Richardson, the acting head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is stepping down, according to the Department of Homeland Security, ending a troubled tenure just six months into the job and while the Atlantic hurricane season is still underway.

The scope of any immigration enforcement operations in Charlotte or New Orleans remained unclear.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement aims to open a call center that would have a dedicated unit to track down unaccompanied migrant children with the help of state and local police, an agency contracting document said, part of a wider Trump administration effort to find and potentially deport the minors.

U.S. President Donald Trump set the refugee admissions ceiling at 7,500 for fiscal year 2026, the lowest cap on record, a White House document published on Thursday said, part of a broader effort to reshape refugee policies in the U.S. and worldwide.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is asking companies to submit proposals for how they would provide round-the-clock services to transport immigrant detainees from Texas jails to ICE custody, documents published this week showed, a move that could speed up deportations and free up ICE officers.

The U.S. will expand the use of facial recognition technology to track non-citizens entering and leaving the country in order to combat visa overstays and passport fraud, according to a government document published on Friday.

New York State's attorney general on Wednesday urged the public to submit photos, videos and other documentation of federal immigration operations to her office for review, a day after a high-profile raid targeted Manhattan street vendors.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has promised tens of thousands of federal agents carrying out his immigration crackdown that they will be paid during the government shutdown, according to emails seen by Reuters, even as other federal workers go without pay.

President Donald Trump's administration is preparing to set a refugee admissions cap at 7,500 people this fiscal year, a record low that prioritizes white South Africans of Afrikaner ethnicity, three people familiar with the matter said.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul criticized federal immigration officers who she said shoved and injured journalists at a New York City courthouse on Tuesday, the latest in a series of violent confrontations as tensions rise over President Donald Trump's crackdown on immigrants in the U.S. illegally.

Top Trump administration officials urged other nations on Thursday to join a global campaign to roll back asylum protections, a major shift that would seek to reshape the post-World War Two framework around humanitarian migration.

DHS said Roberts was arrested carrying a loaded handgun, cash and a fixed-blade hunting knife.