Independent U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is part of a coalition of lawmakers working on an immigration bill that will change how asylum seekers enter the country. It would end the policy of catching and releasing migrants and establish a new standard for lawful entry.

Kris Mayes says she opposes Texas’ efforts to end the "Dreamers" program and joined 23 other attorneys general in filing the brief in federal court.

Citizenship and Immigration Services — or USCIS — is raising the cost of some visa application. Unlike other federal agencies, USCIS is funded almost entirely by the fees it charges for various immigration processes.

In a statement released by the White House on Friday, President Joe Biden said the bill being discussed now would include a new presidential authority to "shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed." How that would work in practice is still not clear.

Arizona Republican lawmakers are introducing a bill that copies parts of a Texas immigration law the U.S. Department of Justice says is unconstitutional.
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DHS rolled out a body camera policy last May and has conducted pilot programs within its various agencies for the last few years — part of a Biden administration effort to boost transparency and accountability to the public.

The Show spoke with Ariel Ruiz Soto, a senior policy analyst for the Migration Policy Institute, about why policy changes are shifting who is migrating to the U.S. and how they are migrating.

Washington narrowly avoided a government shutdown this month. But lawmakers are still mulling a potential deal that would green-light military aid for Ukraine in exchange for crackdowns on asylum at the border. In the meantime, along remote stretches of the Arizona border, officials say that system is overwhelmed.

The Show spoke with Terry Greene Sterling, a longtime Arizona journalist covering the border and immigration in Arizona, about Texas's new law SB 4 that has been likened to Arizona's controversial SB 1070.