By day, helicopters fly overhead. Dusty patrol vehicles take up neighborhood parking lots. By night, klieg lights illuminate the new, 18-foot steel fence that snakes along the sand dunes. This strip of land thousands of ...
Daily Archives: August 20, 2018
Exclusive: new lawsuit claims Trump illegally denied asylum claims of separated parents
A group of parents who failed their initial asylum interviews while they were separated from their children under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy this spring and have been given deportation orders are ...
Detained Dads: ICE Re-Separated Our Families as Punishment
Attorneys for more than a dozen immigrant fathers currently being held at a Texas detention center say their clients were re-separated from their children last week as punishment for protesting their treatment at the han ...
US School Districts Weigh Duty to Youth Migrant Shelters
When San Benito, Texas, school leaders learned of an influx of children to a migrant shelter in their small town near the U.S.-Mexico border, they felt obliged to help. ...
Exclusive: Pentagon Raises Alarm About Sharp Drop in Iraqi Refugees Coming to U.S.
The Pentagon is concerned that not providing safe haven to more of the Iraqis, many of whom interpreted and did other key tasks for U.S. forces, will harm national security by dissuading locals from cooperating with the ...
Two U.S. Agents Fired Into Mexico, Killing Teenagers. Only One Faces a Lawsuit.
In a dissent this month, a federal judge in California urged the Supreme Court to resolve the clashing rulings. ...
Judge to consider lawsuit challenging immigrant arrests
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts will argue before a judge on Monday for temporary relief allowing the non-citizen immigrants to stay in the U.S. while they apply for green cards. ...
What will happen to DACA? Federal court cases could lead to an answer.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge John D. Bates ruled that the Trump administration does not have to accept new applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program but must continue processing renewals while ...
‘Please come help’
The white boat pulled up to the wooden dock, carrying blue crabs and menhaden fish and six men in waders speckled with scales and salt from the Chesapeake Bay. ...
Garcetti helps launch campaign for protected status for thousands of immigrants
Mayor Eric Garcetti, U.S. Rep Jimmy Gomez, Assembly members Wendy Carrillo and Miguel Santiago, City Councilman Curren Price and others helped kick off a 12-week national campaign intended to raise awareness for the Temp ...
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