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DHS whistleblowers blame Trump border policy for increased child detention
Originally Published in The Hill Rebecca Beitsch - May 25, 2021 © Courtesy photo Two government whistleblowers are urging the Biden administration to end its use of a Trump-era policy that allows for swift expulsion of adults at the border due to the coronavirus. The two physicians who are experts in detention health for the ...
A New Report Just Blew Up One of the Trump Administration’s Favorite Lines About Family Separation
Originally Published in Mother Jones Isabela Dias - May 24, 2021 “ICE’s removals of parents without their children were intentional, and not just inadvertent incidents.” A child separated from her parents as part of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy was later reunited with them in Guatemala.John Moore/Getty The Trump administration denied parents the opportunity ...
Democrats, Once Outraged, Take a Quieter Approach to Migrant Children
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 President Biden, they are voicing worries privately. An immigration reform demonstration near the Capitol this month. The number of migrant children arriving alone at the ...
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 people at the border amid a pandemic. A makeshift camp for asylum seekers near a border crossing in Tijuana, ...
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 lawyer and an associate regional director with American Friends Service Committee. I met my husband, Ravi Ragbir, in 2008, when he interviewed me for a radio ...
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 each other, filling up large white tents where hundreds of migrant children wait. Now, officials are talking ...
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 Jill Biden on Thursday told young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children that she feels “inspired” by them because they didn’t just ...
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 Mexico side of Friendship Park. (Alejandro Tamayo / San Diego Union-Tribune) TIJUANA — In her first moments back in Mexico after more than 30 ...
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 with their children before deporting them under its family separation policy. A report from DHS’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found ...
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