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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 Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) WASHINGTON — Whenever Vice President Kamala Harris has visited Milwaukee or Greensboro, N.C., or other cities to promote the Biden administration’s ...
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. Bastian Rodriguez spent much of his teenage years in ICE custody. (Ashoka Mukpo) On a cold, rainy night last November, Bastian ...
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 the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana on April 24, 2021. A group of migrants ...
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 442nd Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army, which was composed of Nisei, second-generation Japanese American soldiers in World War II. ...
‘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. The first time Oneita went to take out money from an ATM, she said, "'Wait a minute, what do you do ...
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 the more than 100 hours that CNN reported in March. US law permits children to remain in these jail-like border facilities for ...
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) The first time Miriam Delgado looked into visiting her family in Mexico, her grandmother was in her late 80s and getting ...
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-Mills / Pool Photo) SAN DIEGO — The number of unaccompanied children encountered on the U.S. border with Mexico eased in April from an all-time ...
Joe Biden, Tear Down Stephen Miller’s Administrative Wall
Originally Published in The New Republic Felipe De La Hoz - May 12, 2021 Rather than shred Trump’s immigration restrictions, Biden is responding with his own regulations that may only make things worse. CHIP SOMODEVILLA/GETTY IMAGES For all the talk of constructing a wall on America’s southern border over the past five years, one of ...
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