Elliot Spagat

May 17, 2024 | Daily Report Online

Migrants in five cities—Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York—will be placed in a "recent arrivals docket" that aims to have judges rule on their claims within 180 days instead of the four years or so that it currently takes.

By Rebecca Santana and Elliot Spagat | The Associated Press

4 minute read

February 01, 2022 | Daily Business Review

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said it will expel Venezuelans to Colombia "on a regular basis," without elaborating on the frequency.

By Manuel Rueda and Elliot Spagat

3 minute read

November 12, 2021 | Daily Business Review

Ecuadorian Neptali Chiluisa crossed the border in June in Arizona and was detained for a week. He found work at New York construction sites. He acknowledges coming for economic reasons and wonders if he has any options for temporary legal status.

By Claudia Torrens, Philip Marcelo and Elliot Spagat

7 minute read

March 21, 2019 | Daily Business Review

Judge Scott Simpson told administration lawyers to file a brief by April 10 that explains how it can assure migrants are properly notified of appointments.

By Elliot Spagat

5 minute read

March 07, 2019 | Daily Business Review

The Trump administration launched the program in late January in what marks a potentially seismic shift on how the U.S. handles the cases of immigrants seeking asylum and fleeing persecution in their homeland.

By Elliot Spagat

5 minute read

January 30, 2019 | Daily Business Review

The U.S. returned one asylum seeker to Mexico on the first day of what would be one of the most dramatic changes to the U.S. immigration system of Donald Trump's presidency, if the policy survives an anticipated legal challenge.

By Elliot Spagat

6 minute read

January 13, 2017 | Daily Business Review

Two out of three applicants to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection fail its polygraph, according to the agency, more than double the average rate of eight law enforcement agencies that provided data to The Associated Press under open-records requests.

By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press

13 minute read

November 18, 2016 | Daily Business Review

President-elect Donald Trump will face an immigration system that is maxed out when he takes office in January as a high number of Central Americans and Haitians continue to come to the U.S. through the Mexican border.

By Alicia A. Caldwell, Astrid Galvan and Elliot Spagat, Associated Press

10 minute read

September 23, 2016 | Daily Business Review

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said that it was widening efforts to deport Haitians, a response to thousands of immigrants from the Caribbean nation who have overwhelmed California border crossings with Mexico in recent months.

By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press

8 minute read

November 19, 2015 | Daily Business Review

More Mexicans are leaving the United States than migrating into the country, marking a reversal of one of the most significant immigration trends in U.S. history.

By Elliot Spagat

4 minute read