Daily Archives: July 6, 2018

Separated migrant parents sue US immigration officials for more communication with children

In a court filing Thursday, lawyers for the three parents alleged that immigration authorities are not ensuring ample communication between the parents and their young children. ...

Military personnel and relatives take citizenship oath on USS Midway Museum in San Diego

The Tuesday ceremony was one of about 175 events the agency planned across the country to naturalize more than 14,000 people around the Fourth of July. ...

The satirical Onion takes aim at Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy — but some say it’s no laughing matter

That same day, the satirical news website the Onion ran its own article: “Immigrant Child Still Hoping To Achieve American Dream Of Better Cage.” ...

Impact of ‘zero tolerance’ on display in Texas immigration court. One after another, asylum seekers are ordered deported

“Your honor, I’m just asking for one opportunity to be here,” said the woman wearing a blue prison uniform and a red plastic rosary around her neck. “You don’t know how much pain it has caused us to be separated from our ...

Reuniting families isn’t enough: A case for holistic immigration reform

Sessions’ exegesis of St. Paul’s instructions to the Romans to submit to governing authorities — essentially, “the law is the law and should be obeyed and enforced, no exceptions” — fails to account for biblical examples ...

Parents Are Struggling to Reclaim Their Children from the Office of Refugee Resettlement

Under the Trump Administration’s zero-tolerance policy, she had been arrested and charged with entering the country illegally, while her son was sent to a children’s shelter in the Midwest. Now, however, the government w ...

Immigration policy during Nazi era and now is not explained by “just following the law”

Holocaust historians’ first impulse is to reject comparisons between those dark decades and our present. We don’t want to be perceived as abusing history for political purposes, or engaging in overly emotional analyses. ...

Here’s what it’s like to work at a shelter for immigrant kids

The employees were in the ninth hour of another 12-hour shift Saturday afternoon at a converted Walmart now housing immigrant boys when a teenage resident took off. ...

The Trump administration is likely to set the United States’ ceiling for admitting refugees at approximately half of what it was last year, according to two knowledgeable former Trump administration officials and several ...

In a Migrant Shelter Classroom, ‘It’s Always Like the First Day of School’

“It’s always like the first day of school,” Ms. Baez said of the turnover at the shelter, His House Children’s Home, in the suburb of Miami Gardens. And the wide range of academic ability among her students — some haven’ ...

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