Such immigrants entered the country under what is known as Temporary Protected Status. Every 18 months, Department of Homeland Security officials review whether conditions in countries under TPS have improved to the exte ...
Daily Archives: July 20, 2018
More than 2,000 children remain separated from migrant parents as reunification deadline looms
That’s only a fraction of the 2,551 children in that age group who’ve been identified for possible reunification. ...
Attorneys’ report slams conditions for migrant children at U.S. detention centers
Children and their parents interviewed by the attorneys described cramped cells where there wasn’t enough space or bedding to sleep, cold or frozen food and a lack of access to basic hygiene products like toothbrushes an ...
Jeff Sessions is pushing asylum officers to reject more migrants. Will they go along?
That goal might finally be within their grasp. ...
More Evidence Emerges That Trump Intended for Family Separation to Be Permanent
In the case of Ms. L v. ICE, Judge Dana Sabraw ruled that child separation was a violation of the due process clause of the Constitution, ordered it be brought to an end, and that the already separated families be reunit ...
As Migrant Families Reunite, Texas Border Cities Scramble to Help
All of it — the ice cream, diapers, disposable plates, shampoo, bottles of water, electrolyte children’s drinks — has arrived at the church in the border town of San Juan to help the Rio Grande Valley’s newest and needie ...
At Texas Border, Joy and Chaos as U.S. Reunites Migrant Families
But his client – a mother who had been separated from her child by immigration authorities after they crossed the border illegally – was not at the Port Isabel Detention Center. For more than a day, Campos was unable to ...
Baby Who Was in US Court Now Will Be Back in Dad’s Arms
Johan Bueso Montecinos was on a jet bound for San Pedro Sula from the United States, after Honduran consular officials and U.S. authorities worked out arrangements. ...
Parents wait by the phone hoping immigrant kids will call
A mother in Louisiana has phone video chats with her detained 5-year-old son in Texas, while a Honduran asylum-seeker had actual face time with his little girl, visiting her in person. He made sure to bring along a McDon ...