The government began its first major wave of reuniting migrant children with their parents on Tuesday, the deadline set by U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw for those children younger than 5. Sabraw ordered the reunificati ...
Daily Archives: July 12, 2018
A bus rider tells a woman in a head scarf ‘ICE should take her kids away’
In the 30-second video, which begins and ends in the middle of the incident, a woman who identifies herself as Ashley tells the man recording on his cell phone: "I'm getting into a fight with some Muslim chick because sh ...
What it took to reunite one immigrant family separated under U.S. ‘zero tolerance’ policy
Her experience shows just how difficult it will be to reunite thousands of mostly Central American children separated from their parents under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. ...
The Real-Life Consequences of the (Now-Lawful) Travel Ban
As an immigration lawyer, I met Arua after working with her two brothers, Ali and Mohamed. The three siblings were born in New York City, where they grew up with their parents, who are also U.S. citizens. ...
Trump to Children: Get Lost
On his way to Marine One, the president blew the White House PR offensive trying to protect him from the consequences of his disastrous zero-tolerance immigration policy by pretending the lost babies are an unintended co ...
A Winning Message for Democrats on Immigration
Immigration policy will loom large in the 2018 elections. Democrats hope Americans will punish Republicans for the Trump administration’s decision to snatch little boys and girls away from their parents—to separate famil ...
U.S. Says It Has Reunited Half of All Migrants Under 5, With Rest ‘Ineligible’
Officials said that 57 of the 103 children had been reunited with their families as of Thursday morning. An additional 46 children remain in government custody because they have been found ineligible to be returned to th ...
A Nepali immigrant brought his daughter to America for a better life. Then his own was taken.
He could have told his wife to stay, to not go to the United States without him and the girl, but he knew what that would have meant: giving up his daughter’s best chance to have more than what life had handed him. ...
Immigrant parents happy but traumatized after kids returned
The administration has been scrambling to reunify the families this week to meet the first of two deadlines set by a federal judge in San Diego who ordered thousands of children be given back to their immigrant parents. ...
Eight drivers, five days: A migrant’s emotional journey to find her daughter
Freed from an immigrant detention center in Arizona, she traveled nearly 3,000 miles to a place called New York — the place U.S. government officials had taken her daughter. ...
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