After an already arduous journey north, it was still only the beginning of a long nightmare for Norma, who, unlike the vast majority of migrants seeking asylum at the US border from Central America, is Indigenous and pri ...
Daily Archives: August 9, 2018
Asylum-Seekers From Africa and Asia Are Making a Death-Defying Journey to the United States
It was a warm evening in early July, and as he bantered with other Eritreans, he appeared ready for a night out. Instead, he and about 10 other people from Africa were spending their weekend sleeping on the bridge and wa ...
DACA: Can It Survive Its Latest Legal Attack in Texas?
But the chaos has obscured a much longer-running dispute over the future of another group of unauthorized immigrants: the nearly 700,000 young people who were brought to the United States as children by their parents, an ...
Now the Trump administration is trying to punish legal immigrants for being poor
Recent reporting indicates that the Department of Homeland Security is planning to significantly limit legal immigration and naturalization by changing the rules on immigration and welfare that have been central to the i ...
For now, Army suspends discharges of immigrant recruits
A memo shared with The Associated Press on Wednesday and dated July 20 spells out orders to high-ranking Army officials to stop processing discharges of men and women who enlisted in the special immigrant program, effect ...
How many migrant children are still separated from their families?
After President Trump halted the separations on June 20, a federal judge ordered the government to reunite all children under age 5 with their families by July 12 and all older children by July 26. ...
ICE raid targeting employers and more than 100 workers rocks a small Nebraska town
Dozens of agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations surrounded businesses suspected of illegally employing undocumented immigrants while cheating them out of wages in both ...
‘I want to die’: Was a 5-year-old drugged after being separated from his dad at the border?
Now, six days after their July 24 reunion, his father was sitting across the room from him in the shabby, shotgun house they shared with four relatives, asking Adonias what had happened in the 10 weeks they were apart. ...
Trevor Noah: Trump Immigration Moves Hitting Close To Home
The president’s attitude toward immigrants was weighing heavily on Trevor Noah on Wednesday night’s “Daily Show.” ...
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