The orders and directives set the stage for a significant increase in raids targeting immigrants who entered the country ...

ABC News correspondents deployed across the U.S. to see the varying impacts of the Trump administration's crackdown.

The Immigration Act of 1891 gave the federal goverment control of “inspecting, admitting, rejecting and processing all immigrants seeking admission to the United States.” The Immigration Act ...

At such a critical moment in US history ... passed the Laken Riley Act 263-156, giving President Donald Trump his first major legislative powers to enact his immigration policies.

President Trump began his immigration crackdown with a flurry of executive orders. Immigration experts say they lay out how ...

Republicans have promised that more measures to accelerate and expand immigration ... Riley Act lists specific crimes that could cause a person without authorization to be in the United States ...

introduced the Laken Riley Act to “give local law enforcement and ICE more tools to fight illegal immigrants who commit crime in the United States ... require U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on ... agreements under the Immigration and Nationality Act and boost funding for the program, which effectively deputizes local law ...

Later in 1919, arrests of suspected radicals began under new laws such as the Sedition Act and ... World is our Country: Immigration and Anarchism in the United States, 1885-1940." ...