U.S. IMMIGRATION AND Customs Enforcement’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been a horrifying — and avoidable — calamity. By handing out masks late, forcing detained people into close quarters, refusing to release t ...
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How We Followed a 1,500-Mile Migration Journey
The day we received a text message telling us that Jessika Loaiza was in labor in Colombia, my colleague Federico Rios, a photographer, jumped on his motorbike and drove 18 hours, sometimes through driving rain, to get t ...
Judge Requires the Government to Explain Why Undisclosed Data on Missing Separated Parents Was Not Provided Sooner
Originally Published in Time Jasmine Aguilera - December 4, 2020 Volunteers from pro-immigration group Families Belong Together build and fill a chainlink cage with about 600 teddy bears 'representing t ...
A Trump Immigration Policy Is Leaving Families Hungry
Originally Published in The New York Times Nolan Kanno-Youngs - December 4, 2020 The “public charge” rule was supposed to ensure that green cards go only to self-sufficient immigrants, but in the pandemic, it is dr ...
Judge Orders Government to Fully Reinstate DACA Program
Originally Published in The New York Times Caitlin Dickerson and Michael D. Shear Up to 300,000 additional undocumented immigrants could be allowed to apply for protection from deportation under a new court ruling. ...
Democrats see immigration reform as topping Biden agenda
“I love these kids and their families,” he said. “I’ve watched them on the front lines during the COVID crisis in New York risk their lives, even though they’re not allowed to be full Americans, to help.” ...
The gripping immigration story of “Stateless” risks being blanked out by star power
Netflix's Cate Blanchett-produced drama is a worthy idea, but places its refugees' plights into the background ...
US immigration agency prepares to furlough more than half of its workforce
The agency's depleted funds appear to be the result of the administration's policies that decreased the number of petitions -- and thus fees -- received by USCIS, said Sarah Pierce, a policy analyst for the US Immigratio ...
Trump visits border barrier in push of immigration message amid pandemic and civil unrest
“This is a public health issue. It’s not about young or old, it’s not about being Republican or Democrat,” said Jagruti Patel, a critical-care pulmonologist at HonorHealth in Phoenix who says her hospital’s intensive car ...
Is the Executive Office for Immigration Review incompetent — or is Trump hiding something?
EOIR is a Justice Department office that includes a 466-judge immigration court, a Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), an Office of Information Technology, an Office of Policy, and a General Counsel’s office. ...
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