immigration

Louisiana lawmakers concluded their 2025 legislative session on Thursday by passing the state’s $51 billion budget.

Two controversial state bills in the Louisiana Legislature — both designed to aid federal and state crackdowns on immigration — are in the final stages of becoming law after passing overwhelmingly in the state House of Representatives Monday.

A Columbia graduate facing deportation over his pro-Palestinian activism on campus has outlined the “irreparable harm” caused by his continued detention as a federal judge weighs his release.

A Georgetown University scholar who was targeted for deportation by the Trump administration said he was terrified in immigration jail.

The Palestinian rights advocate spoke at length as part of a 10-hour hearing Thursday as the U.S. attempts to deport him. A ruling in his case was not made.

Local law enforcement agents could face jail or prison time and heavy fines for failing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities under a bill moving toward passage in the Louisiana State Legislature.

A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a judge’s order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center back to New England for hearings to determine whether her rights were violated and if she should be released, denying a government request for a delay.

The demonstration condemned Trump's border crackdown policies that have led to the detention of students, activists and people without documents in Louisiana.

The bills, proposed during President Donald Trump’s attacks on immigrants nationwide, would force public institutions to track the immigration status of people using their services.

The world's largest immigration detention system is on the cusp of explosive growth as President Donald Trump pursues his signature campaign promise of mass deportations.