Trump is right that ejecting people with potentially legitimate asylum claims from the country without due process would, in fact, be a violation of U.S. law, but he’s wrong about the U.S. being the only country that has ...
Daily Archives: July 5, 2018
California’s Vineyard Workers Already Faced Long Hours, Low Pay, and Harsh Conditions. Then Came Trump’s Immigration Crackdown.
It’s Sunday night of Labor Day weekend, but any barbecues died down hours ago, and the rural back roads of this southern Napa County neighborhood are a dark and silent maze. ...
What Patriotism Looks Like: A 6-Year-Old Raised $13,000 for Migrant Kids
Hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets last weekend to demand the Trump administration reunite kids and parents who were separated at the border. ...
A Lawyer Met With 11 Separated Parents in One Day. What She Heard Is Terrifying.
Over the next seven-and-a-half hours, in a series of rapid-fire and often emotionally wrenching meetings, Powers met with 11 different parents who had been separated from their children. Only one of them had already indi ...
Sick Child Couldn’t Walk After U.S. Took Him From His Mom
The boy was already in pain, just 6 years old and suffering from a debilitating bone condition. Then U.S. authorities separated him from his mom as they crossed over the border. Health and Human Services officials placed ...
DNA Testing Being Conducted on Separated Immigrant Children, Parents
An immigration lawyer told the outlet that her clients were approached by men in blue military uniforms who performed blood and saliva tests. ...
Trump reiterates demand to deport undocumented immigrants, asylum-seekers without due process
“Congress must pass smart, fast and reasonable Immigration Laws now. Law Enforcement at the Border is doing a great job, but the laws they are forced to work with are insane,” the president wrote on Twitter Thursday morn ...
A Day in the Life of a Lawyer at the Border
As lawyers with the Texas Civil Rights Project, my team has been working around the clock to document hundreds of cases of children taken from their parents since the Trump administration started its “zero tolerance” imm ...
Immigrants Take Oath at Monticello, Feeling the Weight of the Past
The sound heralded the pageantry that was moments away, when nearly 70 people would ascend the stairs of Thomas Jefferson’s mountaintop plantation in one of the country’s largest outdoor naturalization ceremonies. ...
Immigrant lockup to open on site of destroyed Texas prison
The Valley Morning Star of Harlingen reports that Willacy County commissioners on Monday agreed to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center outside Raymondville, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from t ...
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