U.S. District Judge Manuel Real issued the injunction against the Department of Justice in response to a lawsuit filed by the city of Los Angeles in July seeking to prevent the government from awarding federal police gra ...
Daily Archives: September 17, 2018
Guatemalan parents reunited with son held in detention, but they’re worried: ‘He’s not the same boy’
The mother chalked it up to sadness. She was in Guatemala and Erik was in an immigration detention center for children in the Chicago area. He and his father had hoped to get asylum in the U.S., and while Erik was held i ...
One Face of Immigration in America Is a Family Tree Rooted in Asia
The young engineer arrived in America when he was 23 with a good education and little else. He landed a job at a nuclear test site, and built a home in Nevada. Between the 1970s and the mid-1980s, he brought his wife, mo ...
The Refugee Crisis Is a Test of Our Collective Conscience
This child uprooted by conflict was me — the same boy who would grow up to be elected as the eighth secretary general of the United Nations in 2006. ...
A mother risked her life to reunite with her kids in the U.S. Now she faces prison time
In the weeks after her deportation, Mayra Machado sat alone in a dark room, staring at her phone. ...
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