What we are now witnessing is an assault designed to suffocate the hopes and life prospects of human beings desperately seeking safety and a better life. (Common Dreams) It’s hard to know exactly where the ...
In another win for the Trump administration, the US Supreme Court granted an emergency request forcing asylum seekers to remain in Mexico. In another win for the Trump administration, the US Supreme Court granted an ...
“What this new U.N. Human Rights Committee decision does is allow lawyers to actually use this precedent-setting text to argue in future court cases [for] a client that fits within this kind of narrow definition.” ...
Immigration advocates are concerned new asylum procedures at the U.S.-Mexico border are denying migrants their legal right to seek asylum in the U.S. A plan to send Mexican nationals seeking asylum in the U.S. to ...
Under U.S. refugee laws, a political asylee has the right to stay in the United States if they would be tortured, killed or both back home. (By Mario Garcia, The Conversation) The ongoing threat of ...
“If ‘the cruelty is the point’ of the Trump administration’s immigration policies, allowing for the indefinite detention of children would be its posterchild. I wanted to introduce an amendment stripping indefinite detention from the Graham ...
City leaders issued a cease-and-desist letter after they said proper permits were not issued before the project began. But on Thursday the mayor said the project has been given permission to continue. (By Julian Aguilar, ...
“There’s a lot of talk about looking for alternatives, but the detention centers are full, the massive operations continue … they separate families and even a child lost her life.” The Mexican immigration agency is ...
“Our immigration system has reached a breaking point as we continue to see an overwhelming surge of migrants, with more than 100,000 arriving at our border in March alone.” In a presidential memorandum signed Monday, ...
Citizen Truth reporter Jenna Mulligan is reporting live from the border as she travels through Arizona, California and Mexico to get a firsthand account of immigration issues at the U.S.-Mexico border. Look for her video ...
“Early this morning, #USBP Agents found a 3-year-old boy alone and crying in a cornfield in TX. He had his name & phone numbers written on his shoes.” Last Tuesday morning, US Customs and Border ...
A battle over the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico Policy” is being played out in the court system. The Trump administration pushed an emergency stay motion through to the U.S. Court of Appeals 9th district ...
“As repeatedly stated by a series of U.N. human rights bodies, detention of children based on their migratory status is a violation of international law.” (Common Dreams) A day after the 7-year-old girl’s small body returned ...
The brutal murder of two teenage members of the migrant caravan is a reminder of the violence that migrants are trying to escape. Two teenage members of the migrant caravan that traveled from Central America to ...
“The narrative and characters in ‘Icebox’ are inspired by so many personal stories that were told to me through years of research and outreach,” – director Daniel Sawka. “Icebox” is a timely new film about one Honduran boy’s quest ...
Wilder Hilario Maldonado Cabrera was the youngest defendant on the juvenile docket that day, and he was one of the last children left in government custody who had been affected by the zero-tolerance policy. (ProPublica) ...
“Asking to be considered a refugee & applying for status isn’t a crime,” says Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez after U.S. Border agents fire tear gas into Mexico. (Common Dreams) As legal experts and human rights advocates ...
A Guatemalan border town held several thousand migrants by October 18, a portion of whom decided to continue forward and crossed illegally into Mexico on Thursday night. A caravan of an estimated 5,000 Central American ...
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) says they have reliable information that human traffickers are posing wearing clothes with the UNHCR logo at smuggling hubs and disembarkation points in Libya. UNHCR workers are often present at ...
Over 68 million people worldwide were forced to flee their homes due to war, persecution, and violence in 2017 according to the latest report from the U.N. Refugee Agency (UNHCR). That translates to one person every ...
The Hungarian government and Prime Minister Victor Orban have drafted a new law to combat migrant asylum-seekers moving into the EU and to criminalize the aide workers assisting them in Hungary. If passed in its ...
The German government has pledged to accept more than 10,000 refugees from the Middle East and North Africa. The country’s acceptance of refugees is a commitment to resettling those considered particularly vulnerable. The European Union ...
CHECK IT OUT! YOUR TRUMP RESISTANCE PODCAST IS HERE! Listen==> KVoice of Resistance 8/11/17 The Democrats won a surprising race in Trump Country. Republican Louie Gohmert(Tx) has a bill that if you like animals will ...