Across the United States, a federal program has been turning local police into immigration enforcers under US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) 287(g) agreements. While officials say it ...

The program is designed to discourage migrants from crossing the U.S. border illegally, but the soaring number of applications has yielded "significant" wait times.

The Paycheck Protection Program and other federal efforts largely neglected them, a survey commissioned by two equal-rights groups found. Nearly half the respondents expect to close permanently.