Amid a surge in anti-illegal immigration operations, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that it will temporarily pause an important form, following President Donald Trump’s executive order on Jan. 20.

"Some of them we don't trust the countries to hold them because we don't want them coming back," Trump said when making the announcement

More than a million migrants who were allowed to enter the United States during the Biden administration may have their temporary stays revoked and be rapidly deported, according to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement document that became public Friday.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the Trump administration has revoked a decision from the waning days of the Biden administration that would have protected roughly 600,000 people from Venezuela from deportation.

The president sought to end a program that allowed migrants fleeing Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Haiti to fly into the United States and remain in the country for up to two years.

Venezuela and Cuba this week released political prisoners, including a free speech advocate, but analysts say the threat of legal action in authoritarian countries stifles media freedom.

An Americas expert says Biden's deal removing Cuba from the state sponsor of terrorism list may encourage more unjust detentions.

The pause on several initiatives that allowed immigrants to enter the country temporarily will block the entrance of people fleeing some of the most unstable and desperate places in the world.

Under the Biden administration, migrants from embattled countries could apply for entry for humanitarian reasons, without having to attempt to cross into the U.S. illegally.

Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) is urging President Trump’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to spare some migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean from being deported under the new

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem cut the duration of deportation protections for 600,000 Venezuelans in the U.S. as the Trump administration searches for ways to ramp up removals of Venezuelan nationals,

A memo appears to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to target programs that let in more than a million people.