The new “National Families Together Hotline” will be staffed by volunteers who have been trained to ask for the information they need to find detained parents, according to the nonprofit Refugee and Immigrant Center for ...
Daily Archives: June 29, 2018
Most immigrants are in the U.S. legally, something most Americans don’t know
Some of it is based on bad data. Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk tweeted a claim on Wednesday that more than a third of the murders in America are committed by immigrants in the country illegally. ...
Inside a U.S. immigration jail, mothers count the days since they’ve seen their children
Scrawled on the back of religious leaflets, it is a snapshot of suffering here at the Eloy Detention Center, an immigration jail where scores of parents wait for information about children stripped from them at the U.S.- ...
After 40 Days Apart and a Missed Flight, a Migrant Family Reunites
Forty days earlier, federal immigration officials in McAllen, Tex. had taken Ludin’s 9-year-old daughter, Keyri, from her arms after the family had crossed illegally while seeking asylum. Ludin said a criminal gang had t ...
Salvadoran Father Reunited With Daughter After Month-Long Separation
Deported from the United States last week, the 26-year-old Guidos said he was detained with his daughter Meybelin a day after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border on May 26. ...
Worried Guatemalan Mom Waits in US for a Daughter Taken Away
Buena Ventura Martin Godinez, a petite mother of two, carried her infant son from Mexico into the U.S in May, fleeing what she said were threats from violent local gangsters demanding money in their hometown in northwest ...
How Trump’s immigration crackdown could slam the U.S. economy
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown could severely limit American companies’ ability to hire workers in a tight labor market, economist Mark Zandi says. ...
U.S. human trafficking report faults child detention
The finding, part of the agency’s Trafficking in Persons Report released Thursday, came as President Donald Trump seeks to quiet public furor over a border policy that has led to more than 2,000 migrant children being se ...
Report: DOJ Proposal Would Gut Asylum for Central Americans
The report states the proposal would deny asylum to anyone convicted of entering the country illegally—immigrants would have to declare themselves at official points of entry to be considered, though those sites are ofte ...
Trump Admin Has Been Separating Families Since 2017: Report
Officials say at least 2,342 children were separated from their parents at the border since May 5, when the Trump administration’s harsher restrictions formally went into effect. ...
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