The Dakota Access pipeline must shut down by Aug. 5, a district court ruled Monday in a stunning defeat for the Trump administration and the oil industry.

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee seek the information from the Department of Homeland Security after interviewing officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year.

Key border bill negotiator, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), expresses bewilderment at the Republicans’ rejection of a careful immigration compromise within hours of its release.

The EPA’s industry-friendly climate rule for power plants violates federal law, the D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday in a searing defeat for the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda.

U.S. officials could salvage unused green cards from the past two years under a Senate spending bill released Monday.

House lawmakers advanced a proposal Friday that would salvage unused green cards from the past three decades and make them available to immigrants stuck in long backlogs.

Immigrants in line for a green card for years or decades have new hope that chronic backlogs will finally be addressed as lawmakers from both parties and the Biden administration train their sights...

A bipartisan bill to ease green card access for legal immigrants is on track to reach the House floor next week, a rare bit of traction for immigration legislation as thornier debates continue.

House Democrats plan to advance an already rejected immigration proposal to offer a pathway to legal status for millions of undocumented people, though whether the provision will land in a final...

Energy Transfer LP’s infamous Dakota Access oil pipeline suffered another blow Tuesday when a judge upheld a decision to scrap a key permit, threatening a system that has already been up and running...

Employment-based immigration advocates say a hoped-for measure to address massive green card backlogs as part of a must-pass congressional spending bill would do nothing to address wait times for...

Democrats are trying to regroup on immigration changes in their sweeping tax and social spending bill, even as key proposals face enormous obstacles and the overall package teeters on collapse.

The Biden administration must process 9,095 diversity visa lottery winners, as part of a Washington federal court order making permanent a prior order wrangling a Trump-era ban on immigration due to...

Federal law enforcement officials are investigating whether unaccompanied migrant teenagers have been released from government custody to labor traffickers who sent them to work in agricultural...

A slate of immigration provisions from Democrats’ sweeping tax and social spending bill is bogged down in the Senate, as confusion and frustration mount over the substance and timeline of the package.

Democrats are inching closer to delivering narrow relief for undocumented immigrants and broader wins for those stuck in backlogs in the legal immigration system.

Immigrants’ rights and humanitarian groups are promoting a laundry list of executive actions they want President Joe Biden to embrace ahead of his State of the Union address next week.

Advocates for streamlined green cards for immigrants with advanced degrees are pinning their hopes on an annual defense authorization package, after facing resistance to including a measure in a...

Immigrants stuck in chronic green card backlogs lost out on a policy solution in a government funding deal lawmakers unveiled earlier Wednesday.

Immigration advocates and business groups are pushing for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to reduce wait times for visa holders seeking work authorization. A backlog of applications has...

House Democrats plan to advance an already rejected immigration proposal to offer a pathway to legal status for millions of undocumented people, though whether the provision will land in a final...

Democrats are pursuing a downsized option to provide relief from deportation to millions of undocumented immigrants through sweeping tax and social spending legislation.