The comment period gave any member of the public a chance to comment on aspects of the census which is a mandatory, once-a-decade count of the U.S. population that next occurs in April 2020. ...
Daily Archives: August 10, 2018
Following a Refugee Family’s Long Journey to U.S. Citizenship
Almost instantly, the king of Bhutan pushed out one-sixth of the small Buddhist country’s population. The Drukpas, the Buddhist elite, and the Hindu Lhotshampa had peacefully coexisted until 1989, when the king introduce ...
U.S. Reunions of Immigrant Families Grind to a Near Halt
Over 500 children out of more than 2,500 separated from their parents by officials at the border remain in the care of the government. The number dipped to 559 this week from 572 last week, according to a court filing on ...
Actress Diane Guerrero Recounts Her Family’s Deportation Ordeal
Guerrero’s story is a variation on what we’ve been reading in the news. She was not caged, and her parents were already long-term residents in the United States when they were arrested. But she, too, is a casualty of Ame ...
The Daily 202: Trump loses more battles in his war on immigration
THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump is the do-as-I-say, not-as-I-do president. For years, he ripped Barack Obama for taking summer vacations to Martha’s Vineyard and told voters he’d be too busy governing to golf if he got electe ...
Three reasons Trump’s new immigration rule should make your blood boil
This time, however, many of those innocent children are likely to be U.S. citizens. ...
Texas lockup is epicenter of family immigration detention
It’s a scene that could play out in elementary school cafeterias nationwide as youngsters prepare to head back to class. But inside the Dilley immigration lockup, it’s a glimpse of the epicenter of family immigration det ...
Evangelical Leaders Urge White House To Raise Refugee Admissions For 2019
Seven evangelical Christian organizations have jointly criticized the Trump administration for allowing refugee resettlement to hit a historic low at a time when the global refugee crisis is intensifying. ...
ICE Withheld Deported Parents’ Phone Numbers From Lawyers, ACLU Says
The American Civil Liberties Union told HuffPost that the government finally handed over phone numbers this week for the more than 400 migrant parents who were separated from their children and then deported under the Tr ...
Judge Orders Trump Administration To Bring Deported Mother, Daughter Back To U.S.
A federal judge threatened on Thursday to hold top Trump administration officials in contempt of court if the government does not bring back a mother and daughter who were put on a plane to El Salvador at the same time t ...
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