Central Station in McAllen, Tex., a city whose southern limit is defined in part by the Rio Grande, is unremarkable, as bus stations go: metal benches in the lobby, a Subway sandwich shop. But for journalists who cover i ...
Daily Archives: August 1, 2018
Trump Invokes 9/11 to Justify ICE While Judge Mulls Family Reunification
A federal judge in San Diego is set to rule this weekend on a request by the American Civil Liberties Union for a restraining order that would prevent the Trump administration from deporting newly-reunified families for ...
The Family Separation Hearing Was One of the Most Appalling Displays of Passing the Buck You’ll Ever See
More than 2,500 children were separated from their parents as part of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” enforcement program for undocumented border crossings and related practices. ...
Immigration tops issues in mid-term contests
A recent Gallup poll found that 22 percent of Americans consider immigration the “most important problem facing the country today” — the highest number since Gallup began asking this question 17 years ago. The last time ...
Your questions about the family separation crisis at the border, answered
The family separation crisis at the US-Mexico border, which started back in April, isn’t going away. The court-ordered deadline of July 26 for the government to reunite more than 2,000 families has passed — and although ...
Reunited, an Immigrant Family Tries to Put Their Life Back Together
“Copy, copy,” she said, looking at us, expectantly. She slid off her chair and walked up to each person, waiting for an answer. “Copy, copy,” Santos, Valeria, and I replied in turn. Aleisha chuckled and moved on, satisfi ...
Trump is winning his crusade against asylum seekers
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University, which collects and aggregates a wide range of federal data, reports that immigration judges — who work for the Justice Department, not the federal co ...
Why some people seeking asylum in the US are afraid of going to court
Now, more than three years later, judges in overburdened courts are rendering their decisions in these asylum cases. Julia Preston, a contributing writer at The Marshall Project, says that even though many of the asylum ...
The Administration Had No Plan to Prevent Widespread Family Separations
After missing a court-imposed deadline last week to reunite families separated at the border, administration officials have an explanation for why they had so much trouble keeping immigrants parents and children together ...
After Locking Up Immigrants, Government Releases Them With Just Bus Tickets
Isabella and her three children stepped off a bus at the downtown Greyhound station just after 1 on Sunday afternoon, carrying everything they owned in a few tote bags. ...
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