The nativity statues at the Christ Church Cathedral are enclosed in a chain link fence lined with barbed wire. It's meant to resemble an immigration detention center, the church said. ...
Daily Archives: July 3, 2018
There’s been a surge in citizenship application backlogs since Trump took office: report
The National Partnership for New Americans found that there has been an 87 percent increase in pending naturalization applications as of the end of 2017 compared to 2015 (when Barack Obama was president), according to a ...
A Better Way To Protest Trump’s War On Immigrants
The demonstrations were organized by Families Belong Together, a newly formed coalition that includes MoveOn and the A.C.L.U. and has attracted dozens of other organizations that have put their names and efforts behind t ...
Guatemalan mom reunites with her children in N.Y. after border separation
With more than a dozen members of the media and others swarming an East Harlem children's center, Gonzalez Garcia lowered her head and was escorted in with a local congressman and her lawyer, Jose Xavier Orochena. ...
If ICE is going to lock up immigration violators, it needs to do so in safe and clean facilities
A decade ago the government settled one lawsuit by agreeing, in part, to no longer keep families at a detention center in Texas in their cells for 12 hours a day, and to install curtains around in-cell toilets and improv ...
The Trump administration says it’s a ‘myth’ that families that ask for asylum at ports of entry are separated. It happens frequently, records show
Mirian had her identification, her son’s birth certificate, which listed her as his mother, his hospital birth record and his vaccination records. ...
The government is refusing to release new stats on kids from separated families
And how many kids from separated immigrant families are still in government custody? We don't know, because officials aren't saying. ...
Trump admin gives separated parents choice: Leave US with kids, or without
The new directive does not allow parents who were separated from their children under President Trump's "zero tolerance" policy to reunite with their children while they await a decision on asylum, a protection sought by ...
Judge allows lawsuit against citizenship question on Census to go forward, NY AG says
Southern District of New York Judge Jesse Furman also granted Underwood's request for discovery, the statement said. ...
Watch 12-Year-Old Deliver Emotional Speech at Immigration Rally: “I Live With Constant Fear”
I don’t like to live with this fear,” she said in the less than five-minute speech that is bound to become an iconic moment of the rally. “It’s scary. I can’t sleep, I can’t study, I am stressed. I am afraid that they wi ...
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