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The federal government has long had sole authority over immigration policy in the United States, but several Republican-led states have continued to push for a role in enforcing regulations as a way to carve out a chunk of control for themselves. The same Republican leaders have also sabotaged progress on border issues, such as stronger legislation and funding, and as a way to criticize Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden and help re-elect Trump, the criminally convicted ex-president. With polling showing Americans are increasingly worried about illegal immigration, the concern has become a top issue in the presidential campaign between...

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants had reason to rejoice when President Joe Biden unveiled a highly expansive plan to extend legal status to spouses of U.S. citizens but, inevitably, some were left out. Claudia Zúniga, 35, married in 2017, or 10 years after her husband came to the United States. He moved to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, after they wed, knowing that, by law, he had to live outside the country for years to gain legal status. “Our lives took a 180-degree turn,” she said. President Biden announced on June 18 that his administration will, in coming months, allow U.S....

Due to his extensive overseas travel schedule, President Joe Biden celebrated the Juneteenth holiday a few days early by hosting a concert on the White House South Lawn, with singers including Gladys Knight and Patti LaBelle. “Black history is American history,” President Biden told the crowd. The U.S. President warned that some “old ghosts” in new clothes, a reference to some of his Republican rivals who have revived Confederacy-era doctrine aimed at suppressing people of color, seek to take away their freedoms by making it harder for Black Americans to vote. President Biden’s remarks came after he had just...

In the days since Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies in his criminal hush money trial, Republicans who view the case as politically motivated have coalesced around a new rallying cry: Prosecute the left. Candidates, officeholders, and members of the former president’s family have amplified Trump’s calls for retribution against political enemies and urged their fellow Republicans to start charging Democrats with crimes. “Time for Red State AGs and DAs to get busy,” Representative Mike Collins of Georgia wrote on the social platform X, formerly Twitter, after a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty. Influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk...