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Daily Archives: June 26, 2018
For a 6-year-old snared in the immigration maze, a memorized phone number proves a lifeline
On a hot and steamy Sunday morning, the man smuggling 6-year-old Alison Jimena Valencia Madrid and her mother, Cindy, across the border into the United States told them to be ready to depart soon. ...
Everything We Know About the Separated Migrant Families and What Happens Next
Last week’s presidential executive order declaring that the administration would seek to keep undocumented border-crossing families together whenever possible seems to have resulted in at least a temporary halt in separ ...
Detention Camps on Military Bases ‘Smacks of Totalitarianism,’ Troops Say
Active-duty and retired U.S. military officers and enlisted personnel are expressing a sense of moral emergency over the Defense Department setting up detention camps for undocumented immigrants on military bases. ...
Trump wants to limit immigration. He’s scapegoating immigrants in the process.
“The United States will not be a migrant camp, and it will not be a refugee holding facility,” Trump said. “You look at what’s happening in Europe, you look at what’s happening in other places; we can’t allow that to hap ...
Immigrant mother separated from boy : ‘I dream of my son’
They didn’t know they would be separated from their children after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border due to a zero-tolerance policy that called for prosecuting every adult who entered the country illegally. ...
Problems getting detainees to court on time magnified under ‘zero-tolerance’ immigration crackdown
He admitted he was not in the country legally, having just crossed the border. He was arrested and spent the weekend locked up. ...
Sleeping on America’s Doorstep: A Dispatch From the Border
“It’s weird,” said Brenda Aguirre, 23, who was planning to sleep that night with her children on a pink mat, curled around her belongings. Nobody, she pointed out, expects to end up here. ...
Due Process for Undocumented Immigrants, Explained
What is due process? Generally speaking, the Supreme Court says that due process allows people to exercise the legal rights and court processes afforded to them by American law, and it allows them to contest an action pr ...
The Government Had No Intention of Reuniting Separated Families
Once there was a policy that wasn’t really a policy. For some period of time, which may or may not be ongoing, the U.S. Justice Department was routinely treating parents who were caught having crossed into the U.S. witho ...
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