His 94-year-old mother sat in a wheelchair at the arrivals gate, overcome with emotion as she waited for Adi. She hadn't seen him in 20 years. As he walked out, his siblings, nephews and nieces broke out in cheers. But ...
Daily Archives: February 8, 2018
San Gabriel becomes the latest California city to withdraw from ICE collaborations
Their crimes came to light last year after a task force of San Gabriel police and federal immigration officials tracked transactions between Chinese and U.S. banks, conducted cross-border surveillance operations, launche ...
After the ‘Trump effect’ slowed illegal immigration, numbers rise again as Central Americans fear conditions at home
The figures reflect the up-and-down nature of illegal immigration and are reminders that multiple factors — from politics to weather to conditions in home countries — influence who tries to come to the United States and ...
The Senate’s immigration debate, starting next week, is really at least 7 different debates
Mitch McConnell has just turned the immigration debate in the Senate, already mysterious and complicated, into something everyone in Washington is struggling to wrap their heads around. ...
A Kansas-based Dreamer fights for her fellow immigrants
In 2013, Claudia Amaro made national headlines as part of the Dream 9, a group of nine undocumented activists from Mexico who demanded to be let into the United States and granted asylum. In 2018, she is making local hea ...
The Guy Behind the Bogus Immigration Report Has A Long History of Terrible And Misleading Research
Controversial economist John R. Lott Jr. has made questionable claims about gun rights, police shootings, and abortion. But his new pet issue seems to be immigration. In a working paper first published in December by Cri ...
America Is Closing Its Doors to Refugees Right When the World Is Driving More and More to Flee
The unprecedented brutality of the 2017 hurricane season showed the potential that natural disasters have to destroy livelihoods, displace families, and uproot entire communities. The most recent example, of course, is t ...
Some of Congress’s Fiercest Immigration Critics Lead Groups That Celebrate Immigrants
Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.) thinks President Donald Trump’s immigration framework goes too easy on undocumented immigrants. Appearing last week on a Baltimore radio program, he blasted Trump’s proposed pathway to citizenshi ...
The Obscure Law That Lets the Feds Ask for Your Papers Inside the United States
Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown recently has been playing out in an unlikely location: Greyhound buses. Over the past month, Border Patrol agents have been spotted boarding buses and questioning passengers about th ...
ICE Wants to Be an Intelligence Agency Under Trump
Officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement are actively exploring joining the U.S. Intelligence Community, The Daily Beast has learned. ...
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