The US’ immigration courts are failing to function at the most basic level, industry leaders have warned, as the already understaffed and often undertrained judges are now overwhelmed by an increasing backlog of over 1.6m cases.

Campaigners want the British government to stop a planned deportation charter flight to Jamaica, not to push through new anti-immigrant legislation.

The plight of immigrants on the border between Mexico and the United States continues to be a matter of grave concern.

US authorities detained over 1.7 million migrants this fiscal year, new figures show.

More than 10,000 mostly Haitian migrants are being held in a squalid camp under a bridge in southern Texas.

The labor crisis could last for up to two years, the UK’s leading business lobby group has warned, as it called on the government to relax its new immigration rules to allow in more foreign workers.

Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) condemns the beating by its agents of a migrant that was caught on camera during a recent standoff.