Immigration

The president also used his first question-and-answer session with the press to announce a new coronavirus vaccination target of 200 million shots in his first 100 days in office.

The order restores the ability of migrant families to cite fear of persecution and torture as a path toward seeking asylum in the U.S.

U.S. District Judge Robert Summerhays said Biden administration officials cannot take steps to lift the pandemic-era border restrictions known as Title 42.

The public health order known as Title 42 is set to expire Monday, which is expected to add yet more migrants to what is already a record number.

“I thought about it a lot before making the trip," said Julio Martínez, one of the record number of Cuban migrants crossing into the U.S. this year.

Numbers for May are so far consistent with those in April.

There are places where drug cartels lie "in wait for migrants," said Luis Macias, of the Jesuits’ Missing Migrant Search Program. Many migrants become kidnapping and murder victims.

The online portal, known as Uniting for Ukraine, launched April 25 as part of President Joe Biden’s goal to bring 100,000 people fleeing Russia’s invasion to the U.S.

Strong currents swept away the brothers, ages 7 and 9, as they tried to cross the Rio Grande into the U.S. with their parents, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency said.

Svitlana Rogers’ family has struggled to gather such documentation as vaccination records from shuttered doctors’ offices and a deed on the house they fled when Russia invaded.

The meeting comes as immigration at the border has become a major issue for the Biden administration — and a point of attack for the GOP ahead of the midterm elections.