Attorney General Jeff Sessions has talked about elevating “the threshold standard of proof in credible fear interviews” and has argued against granting asylum to victims of domestic abuse or gang violence. ...
Daily Archives: August 8, 2018
DHS: Overall migration at southern border down, but families crossing at higher pace
Overall, border crossings fell 7 percent in July, the second consecutive month in which the number of migrants crossing at the southern border decreased. More than 31,000 migrants were detained between ports of entry in ...
Widow of Indian-American Murdered in Hate Crime: ‘My American Dream Is Broken’
A bar in suburban Kansas became the scene of a horrific hate crime in February 2017, when Adam Purinton murdered Indian national Srinivas Kuchibhotla and two other men while yelling anti-immigrant slurs. ...
Kids Were Killed at Texas Youth Facility. Then Feds Sent Migrant Children There.
Three children had died after being physically restrained at Shiloh and affiliated facilities in rural Texas run by the same man, Clay Dean Hill. A teenager from California died after running away and getting hit by a tr ...
Guatemalan Children Reunited With Deported Parents After U.S. Separation
Nazario Jacinto Carrillo, a farmer from the village of Huehuetenango, embraced his 5-1/2-year-old daughter after what he said was their three-month separation since he was deported back to Guatemala and she remained in t ...
Immigration Arrests Drop at Mexican Border for Second Straight Month
Data released on Wednesday by the Department of Homeland Security show that authorities apprehended 39,953 people at the American border with Mexico in July. The number of arrests in June totaled 42,838. ...
Immigration judges accuse DOJ of undermining independence
The judge’s union filed the grievance Wednesday. ...
Border arrest data suggests Trump’s push to split migrant families had little deterrent effect
U.S. border agents arrested 9,258 “family units,” along America’s southwest border last month, down slightly from 9,434 in June and 9,485 in May. ...
Court To Weigh Fate Of Dreamers
A ruling against the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program after a hearing in Houston will probably not bring an immediate end to DACA, thanks to conflicting orders in other courts that have kept it alive for so ...
ACLU Sues Jeff Sessions For Denying Asylum To Victims Of Domestic Or Gang Violence
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday, alleging the “evisceration of asylum protections” in refusing to consider domestic and gang violence as worthy criteri ...
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