The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a ruling requiring President Joe Biden’s administration to comply with a lower court’s decision mandating the government to reinstate the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols policy.

Thousands of North Carolina residents who are in the country illegally are entrepreneurs. They’re running businesses that range from restaurants to nail salons. WFAE caught up with a Charlotte man who started a siding company when he didn’t speak the language, and 20 years later he’s thriving.

Around 4 million low-income children nationwide could miss out on monthly Child Tax Credit payments, according to a study from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Immigration advocates had put their lawsuit on hold to give the Biden administration time to phase out the Trump-era Title 42 measure. But they say they're tired of waiting.

North Carolina ranks seventh in the country for most recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, also known as DACA, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. But a new court decision out of Texas has left the more than 12,000 immigrants in the state who are eligible for DACA, but have not yet received it, at a standstill.

A federal judge in Texas blocked new and pending applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals from being reviewed last Friday. The decision could affect the more than 12,000 in North Carolina who are eligible for the program and have not yet received it.

Mayda Vargas lost her partner after she says he was killed by gang members in Guatemala. She's now seeking asylum in Charlotte — with one toughest immigration courts in the country — and trying to rebuild the life she left behind.

The Biden administration directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement to no longer detain immigrants who are pregnant, nursing or within one year postpartum, in a new policy announced on Friday.

North Carolina ranks last in the country for the likelihood of having legal representation in immigration cases, according to a report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. It also ranks 10th for total pending deportation cases.

Immigration law is complex, and there is a short supply of lawyers in North Carolina who are specifically certified in it. The certification is one way to assure immigrants that their lawyer understands the system. Immigrants seeking help have a wide range of choices, and in some cases, they turn to people who don’t even work in the legal field.

A unanimous ruling out of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will affect thousands of North Carolina immigrants who have received Temporary Protected Status. The high court ruled that those who entered the country illegally and later received TPS are not eligible to apply for permanent residency.

Earlier this year, thousands of unaccompanied minors arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border, sparking debate once again about the immigration system. Children have been arriving alone for years. WFAE caught up with a father in North Carolina who nearly seven years ago had to wait for months as his four children traveled from Guatemala to Charlotte.