Originally published by LA Tiimes Veronica Ledesma goes to sleep worrying about 86 families. And none of them are her own. There’s the mother who fears being five minutes late to pick up her children. They were separ ...
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Arrests along Mexico border jumped 40% last month, despite Trump administration’s immigration crackdown
The border barrier’s impact on reducing illegal crossings is not always clear. In CBP San Diego’s sector, for instance, where progress on new border barrier construction is the most advanced, arrest totals through June w ...
The White House Is Quietly Deporting Children
The Trump administration is flouting the law to turn away minors in desperate need of protection. ...
Migrants arriving at US borders largely barred from humanitarian relief
Originally published by CNN Migrants seeking refuge in the US have been largely barred from humanitarian relief in the wake of stringent border control measures the Trump administration put in place during the coro ...
The Trump Administration Just Extended Its COVID-19 Border Restrictions—Indefinitely
“Do not be fooled: Trump’s goal is not to protect our health, it’s to sow division and advance his political agenda.” ...
Trump to block migrants and asylum seekers at US-Mexico border
On Wednesday, Trump announced the United States and Canada will suspend non-essential travel between the two countries due to the coronavirus pandemic. ...
Arrests of Brazilian migrants entering US illegally spiked in 2019 amid border surge
according to a DHS source."We're confident that the kind of same approach and same initiatives that we are applying with Northern Triangle countries' families, specifically, that we're going to be able to apply those sam ...
Asylum-Seeking Mexicans Are More Prominent at US Border
Lizbeth Garcia tended to her 3-year-old son outside a tent pitched on a sidewalk, their temporary home while they wait for their number to be called to claim asylum in the United States. ...
AP Explains: What happens when migrants arrive at US border
The harrowing photo of a drowned toddler and her father along the Rio Grande has illustrated the risks migrants are willing to take to reach the U.S., even as increasingly hardline policies by President Donald Trump 's a ...
‘Catastrophic’ Delays at U.S.-Mexico Border Follow Redeployment of Agents
Near dawn on Friday, the line of trucks waiting to cross the border from Mexico into the United States stretched for more than three miles and wasn’t moving. ...