So many migrants are being detained, the federal government announced plans to house children at military bases and adults at federal prisons, the largest in Victorville, Calif. At the same time, the number of migrants c ...
Daily Archives: June 11, 2018
The Immigration Forces Beyond Trump’s Control
Last December, the Trump administration celebrated what it thought was a major accomplishment: a 24 percent drop in arrests at the U.S.-Mexico border in the 2017 fiscal year. The 310,531 arrests made, a 46-year low, mark ...
How Child Separation Is Normally Done
The Trump administration’s apparent policy of separating parents and children entering the U.S. without papers—even those seeking asylum—has drawn criticism, and rightly so: It’s transparently cruel and essentially disco ...
ICE Came for a Tennessee Town’s Immigrants. The Town Fought Back.
One morning in April, federal immigration agents swept into a meatpacking plant in this northeastern Tennessee manufacturing town, launching one of the biggest workplace raids since President Trump took office with a ple ...
Immigration firm seems to thrive after Trump lawyer’s help
When Nicholas Mastroianni II hooked up with Cohen last year, his business was threatened by a looming crackdown on a federal program offering foreigners visas if they invest in certain U.S. real estate projects. Cohen co ...
‘Mothers could not stop crying’: Lawmaker blasts Trump policy after visiting detained immigrants
Although Seattle is some 1,500 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, the debate over family separations hit closer to home for the Evergreen State after dozens of undocumented immigrants were transferred last week to th ...
Bourdain’s death means loss of a voice for immigrant workers
Bourdain, who died Friday in France in an apparent suicide at age 61, was an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies and a fierce defender of Hispanic workers. ...
Immigration raid worries landscapers relying on foreign help
Owners of landscaping companies near Tuesday’s sting in the Lake Erie resort city of Sandusky and nearby Castalia, which targeted workers with forged documents in one of the largest actions at a workplace in recent years ...
Vigil seeks support for African immigrant facing deportation
Twenty-six-year-old Prince Gbohoutou’s case has drawn attention since he refused last month to board a flight that would have taken him to his native country of the Central African Republic. ...
Migrant Separated From Family At Border Found Dead In Texas Jail
A Honduran migrant who was reportedly separated from his wife and child near the Texas border last month amid President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy on illegal border crossings was found dead in a jail cell fro ...
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