The Trump administration has justified its “zero tolerance” crackdown on families entering the US in two ways. The first is a moral argument: People who violate US immigration law deserve to have their children taken fro ...
Daily Archives: July 25, 2018
The federal judge who took on Trump’s family separation policy not afraid to make waves
Even his sharp words come out measured and respectful. ...
Discharging immigrant soldiers is the American way. That’s the problem.
Last month, reports emerged that the U.S. military had begun discharging immigrant Army reservists and recruits who did not pass their security screening and were deemed “unsuitable.” For many, it closed off their pathwa ...
Alan Cumming sings, dances and appeals to the heart in ‘Legal Immigrant’
The routine: an 8:45 p.m. performance on the Upper East Side, then a hurried jaunt to the East Village for a midnight show. “That was just too much,” Cumming says. “When we were in the middle of the run, I remember I sai ...
Judge to consider how quickly families can be deported after reunification
More than 1,000 children age 5 and older have already been reunified with their parents under U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw’s court order, and hundreds more are expected to be by Thursday’s deadline — an achievement Sa ...
‘What we were suffering for’: Separated, then reunited, immigrant families face what comes next
They had been among the more than 2,500 parents stripped of their children and imprisoned after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. ...
ICE Steps Up Workplace Arrests Of Undocumented Immigrants Under Trump
From October 2017 until July 20, ICE made 984 workplace arrests, more than five times the number of arrests made during the last fiscal year, from October 2016 to September 2017. During that period, ICE arrested 172 peop ...
Judge ahead of family reunifications deadline: Progress ‘remarkable’ but still ‘deeply troubling’
District Judge Dana Sabraw made the comments during a status hearing Tuesday in an ongoing lawsuit over the separations, two days before his deadline for the government to reunite those families. ...
Exclusive: Listen to separated moms beg for their kids in court
In recordings of two court proceedings obtained by CNN, two women who have been separated from their children plead with an immigration judge to reunite them, as he asks them if they have any evidence to back up their as ...
Immigrant held after Army base pizza delivery released
Pablo Villavicencio exited the detention center shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday. He was greeted with hugs from his jubilant wife and two young daughters. He thanked supporters and the media before being whisked away in an ...
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