But Stegall's face only appears on a screen, and her words come in unreliable cell connections and a barrage of texts. Lives once lived together are divided by some 1,600 miles. A woman who married an American and gave b ...
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Sexual Assault Inside ICE Detention: 2 Survivors Tell Their Stories
After gathering her belongings, she was escorted to a loading area fenced with razor wire and placed into a cage inside a van. The driver was a male guard named Donald Dunn. Shortly after leaving Hutto, Dunn pulled off t ...
What it took to reunite one immigrant family separated under U.S. ‘zero tolerance’ policy
Her experience shows just how difficult it will be to reunite thousands of mostly Central American children separated from their parents under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy. ...
A Nepali immigrant brought his daughter to America for a better life. Then his own was taken.
He could have told his wife to stay, to not go to the United States without him and the girl, but he knew what that would have meant: giving up his daughter’s best chance to have more than what life had handed him. ...
They Tried to Visit Their Son-in-Law at Fort Drum Before His Army Unit Shipped Out. Now They’re in ICE Detention.
Concepcion and Margarita Silva, both Mexican-born Brooklyn residents, drove up to the Army base at Fort Drum, near the Canadian border, to spend the Fourth of July with their son-in-law before he was deployed to Afghanis ...
What Patriotism Looks Like: A 6-Year-Old Raised $13,000 for Migrant Kids
Hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets last weekend to demand the Trump administration reunite kids and parents who were separated at the border. ...
A Lawyer Met With 11 Separated Parents in One Day. What She Heard Is Terrifying.
Over the next seven-and-a-half hours, in a series of rapid-fire and often emotionally wrenching meetings, Powers met with 11 different parents who had been separated from their children. Only one of them had already indi ...
For one teen asylum seeker, confessing fears led to months in detention
Now, maybe his journey was ending. "I was happy, because I thought, 'Oh, I'm going to be reunified with my family,'" David recalled. But when he found himself the only child in a van to the airport, fear began to take ho ...
Sleeping on America’s Doorstep: A Dispatch From the Border
“It’s weird,” said Brenda Aguirre, 23, who was planning to sleep that night with her children on a pink mat, curled around her belongings. Nobody, she pointed out, expects to end up here. ...
At the border, mothers prepare to make an agonizing choice
The 33-year-old Guatemalan immigrant decided it was the sensible thing to do in case the U.S. government took custody of her 6-month-old. Little Bernardethe wailed for three days and clawed at her mother’s breast. ...
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