Originally Published in The New York Times Eileen Sullivan - May 24, 2021 House Democrats led angry efforts to denounce the Trump administration’s treatment of migrant children. With the issue bedeviling Presiden ...
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Biden Under Pressure Over ‘Public Health’ Border Expulsions
Originally Published in The New York Times Zolan Kanno-Youngs - May 24, 2021 The president faces a balancing act: how to keep his pledge of a more compassionate approach to migrants while managing a surge of peop ...
Opinion: I thought Trump’s defeat meant ICE would stop targeting my husband. Why is it no different under Biden?
Originally Published in The Washington Post Opinion by Amy Gottlieb - May 25, 2021 Amy Gottlieb with her husband, Ravi Ragbir. (Amy Gottlieb) Amy Gottlieb is an immigrant rights law ...
Texas emergency shelter is mostly ‘warehousing’ thousands of migrant children, according to eyewitnesses
Originally Published in CNN Priscilla Alvarez - May 24, 2021 (CNN) The shelter at Fort Bliss feels more like a warehouse, according to people who have been there, with rows and rows of bunk cots stacked on top of e ...
Jill Biden tells ‘Dreamers’ she draws inspiration from them
Originally Published in the Los Angeles Times Claudia Torrens - May 22, 2021 Jill Biden delivered the keynote speech at a virtual ceremony for “Dreamers.” (Associated Press) First Lady Jil ...
A ‘Dreamer’ and attorney, she returned to Mexico after 30 years to find ‘heartbreak’ at the border
Originally Published in the Los Angeles Times Kate Morrissey - May 23, 2021 On her last day in Mexico, Dulce Garcia and her brother, Edgar Garcia, visited the border barrier in Playas, the M ...
Watchdog: Trump admin didn’t give parents option to be deported with children
Originally Published in The Hill Rebecca Beitsch - May 24, 2021 A new report from a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) watchdog found the Trump administration failed to give some parents the option of reuniting ...
Biden Will Extend Temporary Protected Status for Haiti, Offering Relief for Some 150,000 People
Originally Published in Mother Jones Fernanda Echavarri - May 23, 2021 Children hold signs in support of renewing Temporary Protected Status for immigrants from Central America and Haiti, in Miami ...
Harris, White House betting on Guatemala to help stem migrant influx
Originally Published in Politico Sabrina Rodriguez - May 23, 2021 The Biden administration is most optimistic about working with Guatemala because it’s willing to talk about the tough issues. And it’s not H ...
Trump administration didn’t provide some separated parents the opportunity to bring their children as they were deported, new watchdog report says
Originally Published in CNN Priscilla Alvarez - May 24, 2021 (CNN) Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported some parents between July 2017 and July 2018 without giving them the opportunity to bring their childr ...
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