According to data compiled by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which is supported by the United Nations, 5,829 Salvadorans were deported between January and March, compared with 9,392 during the first ...
Daily Archives: May 9, 2018
U.S. Violated Rights of Two Detained Brazilian Immigrants: Judge
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agreed to release one of the immigrants, a mother who had been separated from her 11-year-old son since her arrest over four months ago, following the ruling by U.S. District Judg ...
No tears over Tennessee immigration raid
Advocates for the workers said the comments Attorney General Jeff Sessions made at a law enforcement conference suggest he’s “out of touch” with what happened as a result of the April 5 raid at the Southeastern Provision ...
ACLU sues 3 federal agencies for immigration records
The lawsuit by American Civil Liberties Union affiliates targets the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which are accused of failing to ...
GOP immigration moderates say they’ll force House votes
The legislators want the House to vote on four bills including a bipartisan compromise, a conservative proposal and a liberal plan. Many of them face potentially competitive re-election races in November in congressional ...
U.S. embassy cables warned against expelling 300,000 immigrants. Trump officials did it anyway.
The warnings were transmitted to top State Department officials last year in embassy cables now at the center of an investigation by Senate Democrats, whose findings were recently referred to the Government Accountabilit ...
‘Sanctuary Cities’ Are Working In The Trump Era, But At A Surprising Cost
One recent early morning, as the sun rose, a young mother knocked at the Sacred Heart Parish rectory door. ...
How The Deportation Crackdown Is Hurting Immigrant Victims Of Crime
Lora Livingston, a district judge who handles civil and family court cases in Travis County, Texas, was in her chambers on a Friday last spring when a court staffer called her to tell her that an Immigration and Customs ...
Migrant mother Gabriela Hernandez is almost relieved to be in detention after a hellish journey through Mexico
Compared to what she and the boys have gone through in the last two months, her current living status -- even if under guard -- is a relief. ...
Doctors, teachers and entrepreneurs on H-4 visas fear losing their businesses and jobs
Gajera, who is originally from India, is in the United States on an H-4 dependent visa, which is typically given to the spouses and dependent children of H-1B visa holders. ...