Julia Preston

Dysfunction in the asylum process and news that a federal judge has ruled DACA unconstitutional. 

Julia Preston, contributing writer for The Marshall Project, traces the crisis at the southern border to its roots in America's broken asylum system.

Will President Biden put a reversal to President Trump's deportation orders?

What the 2020 presidential candidates are proposing on the issue of legal immigration.

Julia Preston talks about her reporting on how President Trump's immigration policies are affecting the lives of immigrants in New York City.

The Trump administration is trying to end the U.S.’s practice of providing asylum to immigrant women fleeing domestic abuse and violence in their home countries.

The immigration courts determine the fates of millions of people. So why aren't they more transparent?

Fearing the outcome and lacking legal representation, Central American asylum-seekers aren't showing up to court, and are being deported in absentia.

Immigrants looking to vote in this year's presidential election are facing a backlog in the citizenship process, and officials say many of them won't become citizens in time.

Donald Trump’s speech to clarify his immigration policy comes after weeks of conflicting and shifting statements from his campaign.  

Julia Preston, national immigration correspondent for our partner The New York Times, explores the scope of a recent influx in women and children immigrating across the U.S.-Mexico bo...

Migrant traffic across the Southwest border of Texas is on the rise as illegal crossings from Mexico have shifted away from Arizona. This could complicate things on Capitol Hill as th...

The bipartisan group of senators knows as The Gang of Eight will release their immigration reform bill this week. The proposal is expected to overhaul the current system and give mill...

Julia Preston, national immigration correspondent for the New York Times, explains the differences between President Obama's immigration reform proposal and the Senate's.

On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced a rule change that will help undocumented immigrants who are immediate relatives of American citizens. Julia Preston, natio...

Since 2008, the Obama administration has deported over 1 million illegal immigrants, the highest number in six decades. However, this crackdown has not only affected illegal immigrants. A new investigation into the Secure Communities program finds that hundreds of American citizens have been detained because immigration officials thought they were illegal immigrants.

Julia Preston, national immigration correspondent for the New York Times, discusses the Obama administration's announcement that it would stop deporting young immigrants brought here as children.

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We’re talking about a pretty large number of people across the country, as many as three-quarters of a million, 750,000 people, across the country, who might immediately be eligible i...

Alabama has become the latest state to enact very strict new immigration policy.  The new law, signed by Governor Robert Bentley, is said to be the most severe in the country, including Arizona’s controversial SB1070. The new Alabama law will require public schools to verify the immigration status of all elementary and secondary students and will bar enrollment to illegal immigrants seeking to attend college.

For the first segment of our series on the upcoming midterm election, Julia Preston, immigration correspondent for the New York Times, and Scott Wong, reporter for Politico, discuss how immigration reform is shaping the elections—from Arizona to New York.