The International Rescue Committee, a resettlement agency with offices in the San Diego area, released a report Wednesday detailing what it has seen around San Diego Country since arrivals dipped to the lowest numbers th ...
Daily Archives: June 25, 2018
Kerry Kennedy and Dolores Huerta rally supporters of immigrant family reunification
“Reunify these families now,” Kennedy told a crowd of hundreds. She called on lawmakers to “end this humanitarian crisis of their own making.” ...
At the border, mothers prepare to make an agonizing choice
The 33-year-old Guatemalan immigrant decided it was the sensible thing to do in case the U.S. government took custody of her 6-month-old. Little Bernardethe wailed for three days and clawed at her mother’s breast. ...
Asylum 101: Here are the basics of what it is and who gets it
The images are shocking and the emotions are raw. If the whole thing is a little confusing, here are a few basics to help make sense of the situation. ...
The multibillion-dollar business of sheltering migrant children, explained
Providing shelter to migrant children who enter the United States is a multibillion-dollar business. ...
Where Family Separation Began
he order seeks to accomplish that not by ending “zero tolerance” prosecutions of parents for crossing the U.S.-Mexico border (though reportedly there has been at least a temporary pause), but by jailing families together ...
Trump says people from Mexico ‘invade’ US
The American Civil Liberties Union said in response that such a step would be illegal and violate the Constitution that Trump swore to uphold. ...
Trump ended separating families. But what’s next?
Does President Trump’s executive order mean all immigrant families who arrive at the border will no longer be separated? ...
What family separation looks like: Guatemalan man is deported, while his 6-year-old daughter remains behind in New York City
U.S. Border Patrol agents, he said, took his weeping daughter from his arms and told him that she would be returned to him within days. ...
Garcetti joins mayors’ protest outside Texas holding facility for migrant teens
At a news conference near the camp in Tornillo, a rural border town southeast of El Paso, Garcetti said: “It is time to reunify families, and it is time to fix a broken immigration system. We must do those two things.” ...
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