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President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, has agreed to plead guilty to charges that he willfully failed to pay federal income taxes. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg NewsHouse Republicans are conducting a series of probes that could lead to the impeachment of President Biden and administration officials. Democrats deride the investigations as politically motivated and baseless. Here are answers to some of the most common questions about what is going on, and what might happen next.

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☆ Green-Card Backlog Fuels Shortage of Nurses at Hospitals, Nursing Homes
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Stephanie Armour | Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Biden Names New Border Patrol Chief as Agency Moves Beyond Title-42 Era
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Border Patrol Medical Staff Denied Requests for Ambulance Before Migrant Girl’s Death in May
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Eight-Year-Old Girl Dies in Border Patrol Custody
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Biden’s Border Policy Draws Flak From Right and Left After Title 42 Expires
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

WASHINGTON—President Biden’s new border strategy so far appears to have deterred the record migrant influx many feared following the expiration of Title 42, but the revised system is already proving vulnerable to lawsuits and political attacks from the right and left. Mr. Biden’s new course at the border relies on stiff consequences for illegal border crossings involving requests for asylum, while allowing tens of thousands of asylum seekers to enter the country each month by legal means.

The first group of American troops is being deployed to the southern border on Wednesday as the Biden administration prepares for the expiration of Title 42, a pandemic-era measure, later this week. The active duty troops are being sent to El Paso, Texas, the site of the largest surge of migrants crossing illegally anywhere along the border in the current wave, a U.S. official said on a call with reporters Tuesday night.

U.S. officials are scrambling to manage a new surge of migrants as the pandemic policy Title 42 expires at 11:59 p.m. Thursday, which has fueled a rush of asylum seekers heading toward and across the southern border in recent weeks. Thousands of migrants have illegally crossed into border communities including El Paso, Texas, and thousands more are in cities on the northern edge of Mexico waiting to cross. They have been driven by rumors that the end of Title 42, which is expiring along with the Covid-19 public health emergency, will make it easier for migrants to enter and stay in the U.S.

☆ Biden’s New Immigration Policy Cements End of Liberal Asylum Rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When he ran for president, Joe Biden promised to restore America’s commitment to welcoming people fleeing persecution after Donald Trump spent four years restricting it. Two years into his presidency, Mr. Biden is instead doing the opposite by crafting a new system designed to limit the waves of asylum seekers pressuring the southern border. Mr. Biden’s reversal reflects a broader political shift. In the three years that the U.S. employed Title 42, the pandemic-era measure that made it possible to turn away people seeking asylum at the southern border, lawmakers in both parties have grown increasingly comfortable with a future in which the decadeslong right to cross America’s border to seek refuge from persecution is no longer sacrosanct.

☆ Biden to Send 1,500 Troops to Mexican Border as Fears of Migrant Surge Grow
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Michelle Hackman | Alicia A. Caldwell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An additional 1,500 active-duty troops will temporarily support missions at the southern border, a Pentagon official said. Photo: JORGE DUENES/REUTERSWASHINGTON— President Biden is sending 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border, while cities across the country are declaring states of emergency and asking for federal support as the country prepares for a surge of migration expected to accompany the lifting of Title 42 border restrictions next week. A large number of migrants have already been illegally entering El Paso, Texas, in recent days. Hundreds unable to find spots in shelters gathered in the past few days around downtown churches in the border city looking for help, according to photos and videos of the scene.

☆ What Is Title 42? What It Means for Immigration and U.S.-Mexico Border
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

After the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday to keep Title 42 in place for now, some migrants at the Mexico-U. S. border want to wait for more news while others have decided to cross into the U.S. illegally. Photo: Jose Luis Gonzalez/ReutersThe pandemic-era border policy known as Title 42 is expected to end on May 11, the same day the public-health emergency declared for Covid-19 is set to expire. Title 42, first put in place by the Trump administration at the start of the pandemic, allows migrants to be quickly expelled at the southern border without a chance to ask for asylum.

☆ Biden to Deploy Active-Duty Troops to Southern Border as Title 42 Ends
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A group of migrants walked between two fences at the Mexico–U.S. border near San Ysidro, Calif., last week. Photo: JORGE DUENES/REUTERSWASHINGTON—President Biden is planning to send 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border in anticipation of Title 42 immigration restrictions lifting next week, the Department of Homeland Security said. The administration has been scrambling to prepare for what they expect will be a significant surge of migrants as the Title 42 policy ends on May 11, with illegal crossings potentially doubling to 10,000 or 11,000 a day in coming weeks. Title 42, the pandemic-era measure introduced by former President Donald Trump in 2020, allows migrants to be turned back to Mexico even if they ask for asylum.

☆ U.S. Says Some Companies Cheat H-1B Lottery, Driving Record Applications
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Citizenship and Immigration Services has laid out its findings on the H-1B visa lottery in a notice to employers. Photo: Pete Marovich/Washington Post/Getty ImagesWASHINGTON—The Biden administration says it has found evidence that several dozen small technology companies have colluded to increase the chances that their prospective foreign hires will win a coveted H-1B visa for skilled foreign workers in this year’s lottery. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency that awards H-1B visas, said it has found that a small number of companies are responsible for entering the same applicants into the lottery multiple times, with the alleged goal of artificially boosting their chances of winning a visa. The findings were laid out in a notice to employers viewed by The Wall Street Journal and set to be released Friday.

☆ Companies Are Colluding to Cheat H-1B Visa Lottery, U.S. Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Tech Companies Are Colluding to Cheat H1-B Visa Lottery, U.S. Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Biden Administration Plans New Rules to Deport Asylum Seekers
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Michelle Hackman | Sabrina Siddiqui | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A Border Patrol agent searches a man in Sunland Park, N.M. Photo: Paul Ratje for The Wall Street JournalWASHINGTON—The Biden administration is preparing new rules to make nearly all migrants who illegally cross the border into the U.S. rapidly deportable to Mexico or their home countries and open new migrant-processing centers to create some legal pathways for asylum seekers. The steps will form the centerpiece of the administration’s effort to deter a surge of migration at the Southern border when the pandemic-era policy known as Title 42 expires May 11. Those rules, introduced in 2020 by former President Donald Trump and expanded by President Biden, allowed migrants to be rapidly expelled to Mexico even if they asked for asylum in the U.S.

☆ Prayers, a Glitchy App and a Five-Minute Race for Migrants at Border to Win Entry to U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-19 | by ( Michelle Hackman | Photographs Paul Ratje For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico—Each day, a few minutes before 9 a.m. at a local shelter here, several dozen migrants gather in the dining room to pray—for a phone app to work and for a rare legal ticket across the U.S. border. “I ask in your name, Lord Jesus Christ, that you bless this place, and that you give appointments to those of us who are waiting,” said a 23-year-old Mexican woman who led the prayer on a recent Monday. The gathered migrants echoed, “Amen!,” clapped, and all pulled out their cellphones.

Nazem Ahmad in an image from social media, according to an indictment unsealed by federal prosecutors. An alleged financier of U.S.-designated terrorist group Hezbollah was charged with a scheme to evade American sanctions and illegally import and export hundreds of millions of dollars worth of fine art and diamonds. Nazem Ahmad , a Lebanese-Belgian dual citizen who has been banned since 2019 from doing business with U.S. individuals and entities over his association with high-ranking Hezbollah members, was charged with nine counts of fraud, money laundering and evading sanctions, in an indictment unsealed on Tuesday by the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn.

☆ DACA ‘Dreamers’ Would Be Eligible for Government Healthcare Under New Rule
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A demonstration in Washington last year to support the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. WASHINGTON—Recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will become eligible for government-subsidized healthcare benefits, including the Affordable Care Act, under a new Biden administration initiative announced Thursday. A proposed regulation, published by the Department of Health and Human Services, would make recipients of the program—immigrants in the country illegally who were brought as children—eligible for programs including Medicaid, the children’s health insurance program and subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. Such a change has long been encouraged by Democrats and opposed by many Republicans.

☆ Abortion-Pill Ruling Draws Muted Response From GOP
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-10 | by ( Michelle Hackman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Former Vice President Mike Pence was one of a few Republicans to publicly comment on the decision. Republican lawmakers’ muted reaction to a federal judge’s ruling to suspend access to the abortion pill is the latest sign that the GOP’s legal success in limiting access to abortions is causing the party political headaches. Friday’s ruling, issued by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, suspends the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the pill, known as mifepristone, which is now used in a majority of abortions in the U.S. The judge, a Trump appointee who sits in Amarillo, Texas, delayed the impact of his decision for a week while the Biden administration appeals.

☆ U.S. Considers Asking Black Americans on Census if They Are Slave Descendants
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Michelle Hackman | Paul Overberg | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The U.S. government is considering asking Black Americans on federal forms, including the census, whether their ancestors were enslaved. In a proposed update to how the government tracks Americans’ race and ethnicity, the Biden administration is asking the public for input on how it might go about differentiating Black people who are descendants of slaves in America from those whose families arrived more recently as immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean or other countries.

☆ Ukrainians Who Entered U.S. Via Mexico Get Reprieve to Stay in the Country
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Michelle Hackman | Alicia A. Caldwell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ukrainians arriving at the Tijuana airport in Mexico after fleeing their country. Ukrainians who came to the U.S. via the Mexican border last year shortly after Russia invaded their homeland will be allowed to remain in the country longer under a reprieve announced by the Biden administration on Monday. Ukrainians given a one-year permission to live and work here legally—which had been set to expire in the coming weeks for thousands of people who arrived last year—will now automatically be given a one-year extension on their status.

☆ Biden Border Deterrence Plan Bets on Giving Asylum Seekers Legal Path to U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Michelle Hackman | Eric Bazail-Eimil | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Biden administration is making a wager at the border: that in order to convince migrants seeking asylum not to enter the U.S. illegally, they must be given another option. Last fall, facing a sudden and unprecedented spike in migrants from Venezuela crossing the border to seek asylum in the U.S., the administration set up a new program allowing Venezuelans to apply to move here legally on temporary humanitarian grounds. The program was paired with tough new border restrictions using Title 42, a pandemic-era health measure, meaning Venezuelans crossing the border could be turned back to Mexico before they could ask for asylum. More recently, the same border strategy was broadened to include migrants of several other nationalities.

Thousands of Ukrainian immigrants living in the U.S. are at imminent risk of losing their legal status because they entered the country in a brief window during which the U.S. government didn’t have a long-term plan in place to receive them. Last year, in the first months following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, tens of thousands of Ukrainians with family or friends in the U.S. flew to Mexico, hoping they might be allowed to enter the U.S. from there.

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