The Trump administration’s handling of the migrant crisis is a failure. Here are concrete steps it could take to make things better. ...
Daily Archives: November 30, 2018
Supporters of Ecuadorian immigrant block federal building
Dozens of demonstrators, some of them chained to each other and barrels filled with sand, blocked the doors to a federal courthouse Friday in support of an immigrant from Ecuador who was been living in a church for a yea ...
What we lose when we lose Muslim immigrants
Islamic ingenuity built the modern scientific order ...
ICE detainee hanged himself after being taken off suicide watch
Mergensana Amar, a 40-year-old Russian citizen, showed up at a legal checkpoint on the U.S.-Mexico border last year and pleaded for protection in the United States. ...
Mexico begins moving caravan migrants to new shelter but faces mistrust
Originally published by The Washington Post Mexican authorities have begun moving Central American migrants from a crowded, increasingly unsanitary encampment to a government-run shelter farther from the U.S.-Mexico bo ...
Feds deport undocumented immigrant whose church supporters went to jail to protect him
Samuel Oliver-Bruno, an undocumented immigrant who took refuge in the basement of a North Carolina church for 11 months, and whose fellow congregants were jailed after trying to block immigration authorities from arresti ...
ICE To Release Asylum-Seeker After 2 Years In Detention
After a legal challenge against his prolonged detention, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agreed to release Ansly Damus on parole. ...
Record numbers of migrant children are in US custody, hoping they won’t be forgotten
Juan has been detained in an unaccompanied child shelter for nearly a year, long enough to see the emotional impact prolonged confinement has on children. "They get depressed. They cut their skin," he told CNN by phone ...
Concerns raised about ‘traumatized’ immigrant children still in custody
Advocates for immigrant families that were separated by the US government said Thursday they're concerned about a group of children who've remained in custody for months even though their parents had designated sponsors ...
At 87, her mission to help immigrants hasn’t slowed down
Growing up, she experienced first-hand the burden of being a child of immigrants who didn't speak English. Helping her parents interact with the outside world fell on her shoulders. ...