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Daily Archives: June 12, 2018
The Trump Administration Is Completely Unravelling the U.S. Asylum System
The decision means that the U.S. can now begin to turn away tens of thousands of women who arrive in this country every year, seeking safety from violence and abuse at home. “He could be repealing sixty to seventy per ce ...
Can the Trump administration legally strip immigrants of citizenship?
Until now, the agency has pursued cases as they arose but not through a coordinated effort, Cissna said. He said he hopes the agency’s new office in Los Angeles will be running by next year but added that investigating a ...
All the ways President Trump is cutting legal immigration
Asked to say a few words to the crowd, the man chastised the media for missing a fundamental aspect of Trump's candidacy: that he was opposed to illegal immigration, not legal immigration. Trump repeatedly patted the man ...
The Trump administration’s separation of families at the border, explained
As a matter of policy, the US government is separating families who seek asylum in the US by crossing the border illegally. ...
Trump Administration Launches Denaturalization Effort to Strip Citizenship From Those Suspected of Naturalization Irregularities
The extraordinary process of denaturalizing an American citizen has occurred very rarely, with the Justice Department filing an estimated 300 civil denaturalization cases since 1990. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Serv ...
She Was Enslaved by Salvadoran Guerrillas. That Makes Her Ineligible for Asylum.
She watched as Salvadoran guerrillas made her husband dig his own grave and then murdered him. She was forced to cook, clean, and wash clothes for the guerrillas under threat of death. But after she fled El Salvador for ...
Sessions moves to block asylum for most victims of domestic, gang violence
The 31-page decision narrows the grounds for asylum for victims of “private crime” and will cut off an avenue to refuge for women fleeing to the United States from Central America. ...
Attorney General Sessions Limits Asylum for Domestic Violence Victims
The decision could have wide-ranging impacts on immigrants seeking refuge in the United States from violence in their home countries ...
On the Border, a Discouraging New Message for Asylum Seekers: Wait
In their monthlong odyssey taking them from violence-plagued El Salvador to the streets of this Mexican outpost on the Arizona border, the dream of finding protection in the United States somehow kept Carolina Cortez and ...