These women say they have survived murder attempts, have seen their friends beaten to death, and have been forced into sex work. ...
Daily Archives: May 7, 2018
Children likely to be separated from parents illegally crossing the border under new Trump administration policy
Sessions also said that families who illegally cross the border may be separated after their arrest, with children sent to juvenile shelters while their parents are sent to adult detention facilities. Until now, border a ...
Does Donald Trump Understand What DACA Means?
In fairness to Trump, though, few people in his Administration seem to fully grasp the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program—which has been in place since 2012—much less what it means for the seven hundred thous ...
Fact-checking President Trump’s claims on immigration
The trend was unmistakable as we updated our now-administration-long project tracking the president’s false or misleading claims. Before March and April, about 9 percent of Trump’s claims were on immigration every month. ...
The Trump administration’s new plan to punish legal immigrants
Among the most radical examples of that campaign is a proposal, reported by The Post, that would overhaul long-standing rules by reclassifying huge numbers of legal immigrants who receive an array of tax and other benefi ...
The Latest: Trump suggests US ‘close up’ to stop immigrants
Trump says people entering the U.S. illegally are taking advantage of “catch-and-release” policies and don’t show up for their immigration court dates. He says: “We may have to close up our country to get this straight.” ...
Immigration detention prolonged in Alabama’s ‘black hole’
More than three years later, he’s still waiting. He’s moved among six immigration detention centers, including his ongoing second stay at a county jail in northeastern Alabama that critics call a black hole for complicat ...
Trump says immigration laws were written by people who ‘could not love our country’
“You’ve all seen, on television, all over the papers. The illegal migrants, pouring up through Mexico, flooding the border,” he said during a speech at the National Rifle Association convention on Friday. “Many from Cent ...
Trump ending protection for Hondurans was unnecessary
While not unexpected, this decision reflects the Trump administration's callous disregard for the lives of immigrants. It ignores the harsh realities that Honduran TPS holders could face if they return to their homeland. ...
How likely are asylum-seekers from Central American caravan to win their cases?
Just under 80% of the 15,667 asylum cases from El Salvador were denied from fiscal years 2012 to 2017, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a project with Syracuse University that monitors immigra ...