Immigration

Border & Immigration

California schools that need foreign workers for teacher jobs can’t afford Trump’s new visa fee

Sophie Sullivan and Alina Ta

The Trump administration is now requiring new H-1B visa applicants to pay $100,000. School districts that depend on hiring foreign workers to fill teacher jobs, especially in special education and bilingual education, say they can’t afford the new fee.
Border & Immigration

ICE releases Ukrainian immigrant after holding her for days in basement facility in San Diego

Kori Suzuki

Federal agents detained Viktoriia Bulavina, who is married to a U.S. citizen, following a green card interview late last week.
Border & Immigration

ICE detains Ukrainian wife of US citizen following green card interview

Kori Suzuki

Viktoriia Bulavina’s lawyers say her detention marks a new escalation in the Trump administration’s sweeping crackdown on immigration.
Politics

‘We may be deporting the wrong people’: New poll shows doubts about immigration crackdown

Wendy Fry

If you found out your neighbor had a past criminal conviction, your knee-jerk reaction might be that you’d want them relocated.
Border & Immigration

Proposed Trump rule could broaden denial powers for immigration officers

Gerardo Zavala

Advocates and experts say the revised public charge policy could drive immigrant families off programs they’re legally allowed to use, worsen hunger and increase poverty.
Health

‘They still need care’: Why California migrant workers are avoiding medical clinics

Larry Valenzuela

Fearful of sharing sensitive information, California farmworkers began staying away from mobile medical clinics after President Trump took office. “There’s a lot of distrust,” said a doctor who works with them.
Border & Immigration

He was building a life in San Diego. Then he got a one-day notice for an ICE check-in

Wendy Fry

The U.S. deported just five immigrants from Turkey in the 2024 federal budget year. One Turkish immigrant now fears deportation after being summoned to a San Diego ICE office.
Border & Immigration

ICE agents arrest green card applicants in San Diego

Gustavo Solis

In what lawyers are saying is a new escalation of President Donald Trump’s mass deportation program, Immigration Customs and Enforcement agents are arresting people during their green card appointments, the last step before becoming a permanent resident.
Border & Immigration

San Diego’s congressional Democrats tour federal courthouse detention facility

John Carroll

The representatives have been trying to see the facility since October, after getting reports of subpar conditions. On Monday, they were allowed in.
Border & Immigration

Protesters rally in San Diego as new bill seeks to limit use of force by immigration agents

Heidi de Marco

Community members gathered outside the federal building downtown as lawmakers introduced legislation to curb excessive force and increase transparency in immigration operations.