A quarter-century ago, in 1994, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, on any given day, was holding somewhere around 5,500 immigrants in “immigration detention.” ...
Daily Archives: March 9, 2018
Refugee skeptic lands top State Department refugee job
Andrew Veprek’s appointment as a deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) is alarming pro-immigration activists who fear that President Donald Trump is trying to effectively en ...
‘I Am a Pawn’: Trump’s Immigration Fight With California Squeezes Those Caught in the Middle
To comply with federal law, Mike Poindexter began amassing documents to turn over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. To comply with a new state law, he posted a notice above the time clock informing workers that ICE ...
Video of woman’s immigration arrest draws criticism
The incident occurred March 3 in National City, a community south of San Diego. ...
Va. activist held by ICE, prompting immigrant groups to push for her release
Alejandra Pablos, 32, traveled to the Phoenix area this week to check in with immigration officials in a 2013 case that stemmed from a felony conviction for driving under the influence in Arizona three years earlier. ...
What should immigration activists do now?
This does not show a lack of nerve, nor a lack of confidence in the public’s support for her legislative goals. (To the contrary, support for gun-safety laws and for “dreamers” has never been higher.) Rather, it is a rec ...
Oakland Mayor Dings Trump After He Calls It A ‘Disgrace’ That She Tipped Off Immigrants
President Donald Trump denounced Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf on Thursday for tipping off immigrants about federal raids in her city, saying from the Oval Office that “what she did ... was a disgrace.” ...