Daily Archives: August 8, 2019

Why mourning the El Paso shootings will undermine Trump’s immigration rhetoric

The vibrant and intertwined community in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez shows how off-base the president’s claims about immigration are. ...

My family’s El Paso’s story is quintessentially American

I am and always will be the proud son of Mexican immigrants from El Paso. My parents came from Juárez, Chihuahua, to the United States in the 1950's, newlyweds with only a few dollars in their pockets. In the east side n ...

680 undocumented workers arrested in record-setting immigration sweep on the first day of school

After immigration authorities rounded up hundreds of workers in a massive sweep at seven Mississippi food processing plants, friends and family members are desperately searching for answers.A crowd waited outside a plant ...

Groups Sue to Block Trump Administration’s Expansion of Rapid Deportations

Nearly 300,000 of the approximately 11 million immigrants in the United States illegally could be quickly deported under the new rule, according to the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. ...

Mississippi immigration raids: Residents rally around children who were left alone

Mississippi residents rallied around terrified children left with no parents and migrants locked themselves in their homes for fear of being arrested Thursday, a day after the United States’ largest immigration raid in a ...

Asylum seekers report theft, exploitation in Mexicali’s migrant shelters

She definitely didn’t expect to get kicked out of a migrant shelter in the middle of the night because her daughter urinated on herself. ...

Despite asylum win, migrant may be returned to Mexico again

For the first time, an immigration judge has granted asylum to a migrant who had been returned to Mexico under a Trump administration program. ...

For Mexican Americans, El Paso is a beacon. That makes racist massacre more devastating

The cellphone of Fountain Valley resident Jacobo Alvarez pinged repeatedly on Saturday with news that a gunman had killed 22 people, nearly all Mexican nationals or Mexican Americans, at a Walmart in El Paso. ...

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