Ana Campoy

It’s been a busy week for federal judge Emmet Sullivan.

Paul Ryan, who is stepping down as US House Speaker, is leaving a to-do list for his congressional colleagues. Near the top: fixing the US immigration system.

En su última película, el director Alfonso Cuarón dirige la cámara hacia Cleo, una trabajadora doméstica en un hogar de clase media en la Ciudad de México.

Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is calling the death of a 7-year-old girl in her agency’s custody “a very sad example” of the dangers of coming to the US illegally.

Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been in office less than a month, but he’s already outdoing his American counterpart in the magical-thinking department.

In his latest movie, director Alfonso Cuarón trains the camera on Cleo, a domestic worker in a middle-class household in 1970s Mexico City.

Update Dec. 12, 6:30pm EST: The Trump administration is reportedly planning to end protections that have allowed Vietnam War refugees to stay in the US for decades.

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Donald Trump’s pick for the top post at the Department of Justice, William Barr, has plenty of experience on immigration issues, including the detention of tens of thousands of Haitian refugees in Guantanamo Bay.

Some members of the caravan of Central American immigrants that arrived in Tijuana last month are starting to illegally slip through the US-Mexico border.

Football is a near religion in Texas, and increasingly, so is futbol.

Jared Kushner will receive the highest honor the Mexican government can bestow on a foreigner for service to the Mexican people. In Kushner’s case, that service was keeping his mercurial father-in-law in check.

The Trump administration is going to great lengths to make Mexico assume the US’s legal responsibility to consider Central Americans’ asylum claims. In turn, the Mexican government has offered immigrants the opportunity to seek refuge there.

Whenever I go to Mexico, where I’m from, I lug piles of children’s books back to the US, where I live now.

A common argument made against climate-change mitigation is that it’s bad for the economy. A new US government report released Friday (Nov. 23) says it will be much worse for America’s economic health to do nothing.

The US Homeland Security Department hasn’t had a deputy secretary since April. Now it doesn’t even have an acting deputy secretary.

The Trump administration needs to come up with better arguments for blocking Central American immigrants from requesting asylum.

Donald Trump can’t wait to build border walls between the US and Mexico. He wants to spend $5 billion, and recently said he’s prepared to shut down the government to force Congress to approve the cost.

Texas’s losing US Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke woke up on Thursday with the urge to go for a run. In a Medium post published Nov. 15, he describes in detail how he woke up, went to the bathroom, and layered up to face snowy Washington, DC, where he’s serving his last term as a Democratic US representative for his hometown of El Paso.

Politicians have long fought over what to do about the roughly 11 million people living in the US illegally—without really knowing who they are.

The Trump administration is fortifying the US border with Mexico ahead of the arrival of an immigrant caravan from Central America that the president says is a threat to national security. But his preparations are creating a threat of their own: an economic one.

Update Nov. 15, 5:30 pm EST: The Democratic candidate for Maine’s 2nd congressional district was losing after results came in on election night last week. But on Nov. 15, state officials announced he won due to the state’s ranked-choice voting.

Update Nov. 9, 12pm EST: The Trump administration will strip immigrants who come to the US illegally of their right to request asylum for at least the next three months under a new executive order.

Four million votes in conservative Texas are a terrible thing for Democrats to waste. And that’s how many were cast Tuesday for Beto O’Rourke, the party’s candidate for the US Senate.