Rebolledo crossed the border at San Ysidro on Wednesday morning, proudly wearing his Army uniform. It was the culmination of a years-long battle by the UC Irvine Immigrant Rights Clinic, which was able to reopen the case ...
Daily Archives: September 21, 2018
Exclusive: internal documents show how hard it is for some immigrants to get a travel ban waiver
Nine months after the Trump administration’s travel ban fully and permanently went into effect, the public is finally beginning to get some insight into how it’s being implemented — and whether the administration is actu ...
ICE arrests of noncriminals increase by 66 percent in first nine months of fiscal year 2018: report
President Donald Trump may like to refer to the undocumented immigrants that he has targeted as "bad hombres," but a new report reveals that most of them are harmless civilians. ...
Authorities can deny visa, green card applications without giving applicants chance to fix errors
As President Donald Trump wages a vocal battle against illegal immigration, his administration has been working more quietly to cut down on legal pathways to immigrate to the U.S. ...
Why Hasn’t Trump’s Refugee Policy Repelled His Christian Supporters?
Refugees are not simply impoverished migrants. A refugee is defined, by a 1951 international convention, as a person who, “owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted … is outside the country of his nationality and is ...
12-Year-Old Girl From Honduras Reunited With Her Family
Twelve-year-old Nathalia Guzman travelled from Yoro, Honduras with her aunt Francia Guzman, her uncle, Henrry Cruz-Amaya, and her cousin, Fernando Cruz-Guzman. WMUR-TV reports she was sent to a detention center in Chicag ...
Hypocrisy on Immigration
The Trump administration's proposal under which “Americans would lose the right to petition for their parents” to get green cards would mean a generation of American children deprived of grandparents. ...
Another Case of Vanishing Latino Children
About a decade ago, thousands of Latino children began quietly dropping out of public schools in 55 counties across the country. One year, the students would be enrolled; the next year, they wouldn’t be. Sometimes they l ...
Like it or not, immigrant children are our future
If the 20th century was the century of mass migrations, the 21st century will be the century of the children of immigrants. The reality is that the children of immigrants are the only sector of the population in nearly a ...
Drop In Mexican-Born Immigrants Attributed To Hostility Here, Opportunity There
The number of U.S. residents — legal and undocumented — born in Mexico has dropped slowly since a peak of 11.7 million before the Great Recession, to 11.3 million in 2017, but the decline of 300,000 between 2016 and 2017 ...