It doesn’t take a psychologist to understand that ripping children from their beds in the middle of the night, tearing them away from anyone they’ve forged a connection with and thrusting them into more uncertainty could ...
Daily Archives: October 1, 2018
Should immigrants face barriers to welfare?
Half of immigrant-headed households use welfare. The United States should screen for self-supporting immigrants over immigrants who come here and consume welfare intended for needy Americans. The costs of entitlements ar ...
As immigrants flow across US border, American guns go south
Among the thousands of immigrants who have been coming across the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months, many are seeking to escape gang and drug violence raging in their homelands. The weapon of choice used to intimidate ...
Problems for Pentagon’s immigrant recruit program
The decade-old program has been on hold since 2016 amid concerns that immigrant recruits were not being screened well enough, and security threats were slipping through the system. Defense officials shored up the vetting ...
Trump Administration Quietly Moves 1,600 Migrant Children To Texas Tent City: Report
More than 1,600 migrant children in U.S. custody have quietly been relocated in recent weeks from private foster homes and shelters to a barren tent city in the Texas desert, The New York Times reported on Sunday. ...
He Risked His Life For Americans In Afghanistan. Trump Won’t Let Him See His Family In Jersey.
President Donald Trump’s administration has decimated the U.S. refugee resettlement program, shrinking the number of people admitted and adding vetting requirements that slow down the process. Noori and Ayoubi fear that ...
‘I wouldn’t wish it even on my worst enemy’: Reunited immigrant moms write letters from detention
Their anguish is conveyed in a collection of letters written from one of the few immigrant family detention centers in the country, where some moms and children who were separated at the border this summer are now being ...
Trump’s Public-Charge Rule Is a One-Two Punch Against Immigrants and Public Assistance
Although these rumors were inaccurate, they were based on a widely reported development: the Trump Administration was considering ways to revamp the access that immigrants have to public benefits. That fact was enough to ...