Since the mid ’90s, the US has followed a policy of mandatory detention for most asylum seekers and deportation for people convicted of certain criminal acts, many of them nonviolent offenses. Once people make it across ...
Daily Archives: April 2, 2018
ICE arrests farmworkers, sparking fears in the Central Valley over immigrants and the economy
That morning, an ICE spokesman said, agents went to a Kern County residence where they thought an immigration target lived. One of the men who got into Aceves’ car matched that person’s description, he said. The ICE agen ...
Where Companies Welcome Refugees, the More, the Better
With forecasters expecting the unemployment rate to sink further this week, the chorus of complaints about worker shortages — from custodians to computer prodigies — has swelled. ...
The Daily 202: Trump’s DACA tweetstorm speaks volumes about his presidency
With a trio of temperamental tweets on Easter Sunday and three follow-ups this morning, Trump announced there will be no deal to save the 700,000 “dreamers” whose futures he put in peril by ending the Deferred Action for ...
U.S. government ordered to allow abortion access to detained immigrant teens
The order came in a case brought last fall on behalf of a Central American girl in a government-funded shelter that set off a national debate over the constitutional rights of such undocumented teens to terminate their ...
Punishing immigrants for feeding their children
We and others who advocate access to health, nutrition, education, equity and opportunity will vigorously oppose this wrongheaded and coldhearted proposal. We urge the American people and Congress to join us. Together we ...
A sanctuary of one
Inside a tiny Colorado church, a woman who had been taking refuge for nearly nine months was sitting by a window, watching the snow drift down. She watched for an hour, then another, reminding herself for the 257th day i ...
A sanctuary of one
Not our President. Just hours after tweeting "Happy Easter!" to his 49 million Twitter followers, Donald Trump began venting about illegal immigration. "Border Patrol Agents are not allowed to properly do their job at th ...
This US-bound migrant caravan sparked a Trump tweetstorm
Trump's tweets place the caravan at the center of the US immigration debate, suggesting that the latest waves of people are coming to the United States because of lax laws that don't do enough to crack down on illegal im ...
Donald Trump’s latest dog whistle on immigration is more like a scream
In ways large and small, Trump has continued to blow the dog whistle as President -- insisting that on everything from immigration to trade, America is under very serious threat from the "other," and that unless things c ...
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