Jérôme Ruillier’s latest graphic novel, The Strange, his first translated into English, opens cinematically with a masterfully compressed pre-title sequence. The story begins in medias res, with a bird’s-eye view of a to ...
Daily Archives: July 31, 2018
Senators Want Investigation of Immigrant Abuse Allegations
The bipartisan leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee asked federal investigators late Monday to examine allegations of sexual, physical and emotional abuse of immigrants held at government detention facilities, sayin ...
Georgia City: Immigration Board Members Serving Illegally
Decatur City Attorney Brian Downs wrote that his public records requests suggest the terms have expired for five of the Georgia Immigration Enforcement Review Board's seven members. ...
In My Iowa Town, We Need Immigrants
Julio Barroso was not there last week as President Trump bellowed during his visit to Iowa, closing a job-training round table with another tirade on immigration. ...
Photos: The Agonizing Realities of Family Reunification
Government officials say they have now reunited more than 1,800 families, but some are still waiting. ...
Migrant Families Have Been Reunited. Now, a Scramble to Prevent Deportations.
The federal government last week completed reunifications of more than 1,800 migrant families separated under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy, but immigrant advocates were set to be back in court Tuesd ...
How One Agency Built a Multimillion-Dollar Business in Migrant Children
When 17-year-old Destani Williams ran away from an upstate New York residential treatment program in May 2017 and was found dead a week later, it was but the latest in a string of troubling incidents at Cayuga Centers, a ...
A Migrant Boy Rejoins His Mother, but He’s Not the Same
Before they were separated at the southwest border, Ana Carolina Fernandes’s 5-year-old son loved playing with the yellow, impish Minion characters from the “Despicable Me” movies. Now his favorite game is patting down a ...
Top Dem uses immigration hearing to seek Nielsen resignation
No. 2 Senate Democratic leader Richard Durbin of Illinois said the policy “shows the extremes this administration will go to, to punish families fleeing horrific gang and sexual violence and seeking refuge in the United ...
Detention centers for migrant families are like ‘summer camp,’ Trump official tells senators
“I’m very comfortable with the level of service and protection that is being provided,” top Immigration and Customs Enforcement official Matthew Albence told the Senate Judiciary Committee about the conditions at the “fa ...
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