“I don’t like answering calls from people who aren’t listed in my phone,” he told me. “I always have in my head that this isn’t my country.” This time, however, he decided to answer. On the other end of the line, the spe ...
Daily Archives: October 18, 2018
Deported by ICE, Threatened in Mexico, Trapped Without Asylum: One Father’s Immigration Struggle
Armando Rojas crossed the border illegally 30 years ago when he was 18. A father of two sons who are U.S. citizens, Rojas has been working for Bet Torah, a conservative synagogue in Mount Kisco, New York, for 20 years. ...
A Record Number of Families Are Crossing the Southern Border Illegally
In September, Border Patrol agents apprehended 16,658 family members, up from about 9,200 in July and 4,200 last September. The previous record of 16,357 was set in June 2014. ...
Some Immigrant Parents Fear Losing Their Children Forever
Samuel arrived in Michigan wearing black sweatpants and a black hoodie with the drawstring pulled so tightly his new foster parents could hardly see his face. The 10-year-old gave off an overpowering stench—he was so afr ...
Trump Threatens to Send Military, Shut Border as Migrants Head for Mexico
"I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught - and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!" Trump wrote on Twitter. ...
New deal keeps open facility that detains immigrant families
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month signed a contract with the city of Dilley, where the South Texas Family Residential Center opened in 2014. Dilley signed a contract at the same time with CoreCivic, the ...
Trump: I can’t fix the immigration problem, so Republicans should demagogue it instead
We already know Trump takes the state of the border very personally — when he believes he is failing in some way on illegal immigration, he tends to fret that this undercuts the very mystique of Trump toughness that supp ...
Admin wants to bring DACA case back to Supreme Court quickly with Kavanaugh in
The latest example came in a letter from to the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals warning if there wasn't a decision soon on the administration's planned phase out of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program -- t ...
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