Passed down by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the directive sets a far more difficult legal standard for those adjudicating cases on behalf of asylum seekers. Sessions has argued that the United States can not be the pr ...
Daily Archives: June 13, 2018
Immigration Judges Express Fear That Sessions’s Policies Will Impede Their Work
But to many of the judges, Mr. Sessions’s hard-line immigration agenda is increasingly standing in the way of their ability to mete out justice. ...
House to vote next week on two competing immigration bills after Republican negotiations on a compromise fall short
A spokeswoman for House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) made the announcement late Tuesday after a group of renegade Republican moderates failed to gather enough support to force votes on far-reaching protections for “drea ...
Mendelsohn, a journalist, author and passionate genealogist, has been using people’s public family history to beat back some of the uglier claims about immigrants and how they fit into US history.
An agent working for U.S. Customs and Border Protection met with a reporter last year and questioned her about her sources and reporting methods during an unusual dinner, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. That age ...
They spoke out against immigrants. So she unearthed their own immigrant ancestors
Mendelsohn, a journalist, author and passionate genealogist, has been using people's public family history to beat back some of the uglier claims about immigrants and how they fit into US history. ...
Padma Lakshmi: I could have been that immigrant child torn from her mother
Every day, I'd sit on a step outside our house waiting for my mom to come back from work in America. The anguish of separation may have even contributed to a skin condition I developed around that time -- terrible bliste ...
A Court Found That ICE Agents Violated Constitutional Rights. The Defendants Were Deported Anyway.
When immigration officers raided a rural Pennsylvania poultry transport company early last year, a lawyer for five undocumented men arrested saw plenty of evidence their rights had been violated. ...
Immigration Compromise Is Doomed Once Again
Anyway, the upshot is that the attempt by the rebels to force a vote on these popular bills—which are also popular with the public—has been put to rest. Instead, we’ll get a vote on a conservative bill that will go down ...
Democrats Are Going to Have Earn the Latino Vote in 2020
The liberal advocacy group Voto Latino announced plans Tuesday to register 1 million new Latino voters in time for the 2020 election. “The new initiative, called Somos Mas (We Are More), will focus on seven states: Texas ...
Trump administration is forcibly separating kids from their families
The Trump administration is deliberately taking immigrant children away from their parents. This practice, which has already elicited objections from the United Nations, is being applied when foreign families are either ...
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