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A Kansas man is suing Rep. Tim Burchett for defamation after the Tennessee Republican inaccurately claimed on social media that he was involved in the mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade last month.  The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Kansas, argues Denton Loudermill Jr. received death threats and suffered mental…

U.S. Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens said migrant smugglers are taking advantage of vulnerabilities at the southern border and the importance that U.S. officials place on responding to humanitarian issues that arise. In an interview that aired on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Owens said smugglers “absolutely are” setting the rules of engagement…

Massachusetts is currently allocating about $75 million monthly to shelters, a significant increase that coincides with the expected depletion of emergency services funding by Governor Maura Healey’s administration in April without additional financial support.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that immigration will result in a $7 trillion boost to gross domestic product over the next decade.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announced that she will vote against the latest government funding package, expressing her disappointment with the Republican majority in the House. “Our Republican majority is a complete failure,” Greene said.

Massachusetts senators voted Thursday to shuttle hundreds of millions of one-time use dollars to a state-run shelter system buckling under the weight of an influx of migrants from other countries and soaring costs that show little sign of slowing down.

Seven Democratic Senators and independent allies introduced a bill that would expand the authority of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), allowing the agency to obtain judicial warrants to arrest immigrants who entered the country illegally and were charged with violent crimes. The bill comes as Democrats increase tough-on-immigration rhetoric amid a GOP focus on…

Limits on students, asylum seekers, and temporary workers will be introduced this autumn

Local officials across Texas are anxiously waiting to see whether the state’s harsh new immigration law will take effect — and how it will impact their communities. The law makes entering Texas outside a port of entry a state crime, punishable in the first instance by up to six months in jail and in subsequent…

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito once again extended his freeze of a Texas law enabling state law enforcement to arrest people they suspect are illegally entering the United States from Mexico. For a second time, Alito on Monday extended his administrative pause as the court weighs the Biden administration’s emergency application seeking to block the…