Maria Sacchetti The Washington Post

More than a year after he drew criticism for comparing family detention to a "summer camp," the nation's top immigration enforcer stood in a clean hallway in America's largest family detention complex and gestured around himself.

Legal immigrants who use public benefits - such as Medicaid, food stamps or housing assistance - could have a tougher time obtaining a green card under a policy change announced Monday that is at the center of the Trump administration's effort to reduce immigration levels.

The deaths of two Guatemalan children in December and the massive groups of Central American families crossing the border are increasingly transforming the Border Patrol's role from national security to humanitarian relief.

To Carmen Palma, a Salvadoran migrant waiting at a shelter just south of the border, her six-year-old daughter's life depends on getting asylum in the United States. She and hundreds of thousands of others have staked their lives on getting there.

A Kansas chemistry professor from Bangladesh who has lived in the United States for more than 30 years - and who was arrested by immigration officials on his front lawn Jan. 24 - has been granted a temporary stay of deportation, his attorney said Thursday morning.

A federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday issued a sweeping freeze of President Donald Trump's new executive order hours before it would have temporarily barred the issuance of new visas to citizens of six Muslim-majority countries and suspended the admission of new refugees.

More than a year after he drew criticism for comparing family detention to a "summer camp," the nation's top immigration enforcer stood in a clean hallway in America's largest family detention complex and gestured around himself.

Legal immigrants who use public benefits - such as Medicaid, food stamps or housing assistance - could have a tougher time obtaining a green card under a policy change announced Monday that is at the center of the Trump administration's effort to reduce immigration levels.

The deaths of two Guatemalan children in December and the massive groups of Central American families crossing the border are increasingly transforming the Border Patrol's role from national security to humanitarian relief.

To Carmen Palma, a Salvadoran migrant waiting at a shelter just south of the border, her six-year-old daughter's life depends on getting asylum in the United States. She and hundreds of thousands of others have staked their lives on getting there.

A Kansas chemistry professor from Bangladesh who has lived in the United States for more than 30 years - and who was arrested by immigration officials on his front lawn Jan. 24 - has been granted a temporary stay of deportation, his attorney said Thursday morning.

A federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday issued a sweeping freeze of President Donald Trump's new executive order hours before it would have temporarily barred the issuance of new visas to citizens of six Muslim-majority countries and suspended the admission of new refugees.