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Daily Archives: October 11, 2018
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Why Immigrants Need the Violence Against Women Act
Originally published by Slate Ana María Toledo Cáceres landed in Las Vegas on a sweltering September day in 2014. In the car with her fiancé, en route to her new home in Utah, the 49-year-old Guatemalan tried to take i ...
“In Any Other Judicial System, the Government Cannot Just Take Away Your Kid”
On April 20, Alejandra and her two-year-old daughter were taken into a small room at the Karnes family detention center in South Texas. Officials working at the center said they had good news and bad news. Alejandra, a 2 ...
A Tortured Choice for Immigrants: Your Health or Your Green Card?
Scrolling down the list of my primary care patients, I wondered who might be affected. A pregnant woman from Cameroon. An elderly woman with brittle bones from the Dominican Republic. A man with cancer from Ecuador. The ...
Arizona Shelter Shut in Latest Case of Migrant Child Abuse
Southwest Key's Hacienda del Sol shelter was shut down last Friday, but federal officials did not reveal the reason behind the closure until Tuesday. ...
Border Officials Alarmed by Migrants Abandoned in the Desert
Collectively, more than 1,400 migrants have been left by smugglers in the broiling desert — or in one case in a drenching thunderstorm — in remote areas by the border since Aug. 20. One group was as large as 275 people. ...
Supreme Court wrestles with case on detention of immigrants
Justice Stephen Breyer seemed perhaps the most sympathetic to the arguments of immigrants in the case. The immigrants, mostly green-card holders, say they should get hearings where they can argue for their release while ...
U.S. judges balk at ICE detention of defendants granted bail under Trump ‘zero tolerance’ push
The rulings complicate the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” crackdown on defendants who are charged with illegally crossing the border but whom judges have determined do not pose a flight or safety risk. ...
ICE put a 4-year-old on a plane to Guatemala. Her dad found out 30 minutes before she landed
But there was one major problem, according to advocates who worked on the case: The man didn't learn his daughter was coming until 30 minutes before her flight was set to land in Guatemala City. ...
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