Originally Published in CNN Priscilla Alvarez - May 13, 2021 The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center (CNN) Two large sites in Texas used to shelter unaccompanied migrant children amid the influx in ...
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Man arrested for hurling slurs, assaulting Asian worker: “I don’t want coronavirus”
Originally Published in Newsweek Alexandra Hutzler - May 13, 2021 Authorities in Virginia have arrested a suspect who allegedly used anti-Asian racial slurs against two restaurant employees before pushing one of th ...
Republicans aren’t alone in saying Kamala Harris should visit the southern border
Originally Published in the Los Angeles Times Noah Bierman - May 12, 2021 Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a virtual meeting with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Friday. (Kent Nishimu ...
The ‘ICE Kids’
Originally Published in The Nation Ashoka Mukpo - May 13, 2021 For years, ICE has been holding teenagers in indefinite detention thousands of miles away from their families. And it won’t tell anyone why. Bas ...
As More Migrants Arrive, U.S. Expands Efforts To Identify And Admit Most Vulnerable
Originally Published in NPR Joel Rose, Angela Kacherga and Max Rivlin-Nadler - May 12, 2021 Migrants and asylum seekers are seen after spending the night in one of the car lanes off the San Ysidro Crossing Port on ...
In ‘Facing The Mountain’ Japanese-Americans Sacrifice For A Country That Spurns Them
Originally Published in NPR Michael Shaub - May 13, 2021 Facing the Mountain, by Daniel James Brown Viking In the middle of the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles, there's a monument dedicated to the 4 ...
‘All Our Opportunity Was Taken Away’: Sanctuary Family Slowly Restarts Life
Originally Published in NPR Laura Benshoff - May 13, 2021 After more than two years living in churches to avoid deportation to Jamaica, Clive and Oneita Thompson noticed some basic life skills had deteriorated. ...
Average time for unaccompanied children in CBP custody down more than 75%
Originally Published in CNN Geneva Sands - May 6, 2021 (CNN)Unaccompanied migrant children now spend an average of around 24 hours in Border Patrol custody, a Biden administration official said Thursday, down from ...
DACA recipients launch legal battle to clear hurdles from the ultimate goal: citizenship
Originally Published in the Los Angeles Times Andrea Castillo - May 12, 2021 DACA recipient Miriam Delgado and her daughter Aleha Esquivel, 7, at their home in Whittier. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) ...
Number of unaccompanied children at border eases in April
Originally Published in the Los Angeles Times Elliot Spagat - May 12, 2021 Migrant children watch television inside a U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. (Dario Lopez- ...
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