“The Court finds that the conditions of detention in CBP holding cells, especially those that preclude sleep over several nights, are presumptively punitive and violate the Constitution.” An Arizona-based US judge ruled against Customs and ...
Drawing on harsh experiences in their home countries, Central Americans immigrants in the U.S. have played key roles in organizing labor movements. (Elizabeth Oglesby, The Conversation) In the United States’ heated national debate about immigration, ...
“Can anyone imagine the government ordering you to disconnect your child from life-saving care — to pull them from a hospital bed — knowing that it will cost them their lives?” The Trump administration has ...
The Trump administration has requested to amend a settlement that would allow them to indefinitely detain migrant children, but activist organizations have vowed to fight it. (By Kevin Johnson, The Conversation) The Trump administration is ...
The primary reason Christian groups are now focusing on immigration, I’d argue, is simply that the notion of welcoming strangers and caring for the vulnerable are embedded in the Christian tradition. (By Laura E. Alexander, ...
“I would want them legally to be able to come to America or to be able to live in America, just without being forced into these places away from their parents.” In late June of ...
The Open Arms ship, a migrant rescue boat run by Spanish charity Proactiva, has been stuck at sea for over two weeks as migrants onboard await their fate while Italy debates their future. Italian Prime ...
680 workers from seven food processing units were detained by ICE last Wednesday in Mississippi. (Peoples Dispatch) At least 377 people remain in detention in Mississippi, U.S. on Wednesday, August 7, after the Immigration and ...
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 ...
Trump scores a ‘Big VICTORY’ as a Supreme Court decision on border wall funding is split down party lines in his favor. The Supreme Court granted President Trump a significant victory on Friday, ruling that ...
“The policies we have at the border and this militarization, building fences, they didn’t start with Trump. This is a lot of the policies have continued from the Obama administration much earlier… Bush and Clinton.” ...
Two Texas House committees have been meeting for hours to discuss the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Local officials say federal agencies are stretched thin. Some Texas lawmakers say their concern is conditions for migrants ...
“People have to speak up and they have to take action,” Castro said of his decision to release footage of women detained in an El Paso border facility. “This was about shining a light on ...
“How could you not do it, living in a place where people are dying by the dozens around you every year. How could you not respond?” The controversial and high-profile case of a humanitarian aid ...
“We are in a full-blown emergency, and I cannot say this stronger, the system is broken.” The Trump administration is reportedly planning on keeping more than a thousand detained children in a military base that ...
“If we do not intervene soon, there will be a sea of blood.” Greek officials confirmed on Tuesday that at least seven people, including two children, were killed earlier in the day after a boat ...
The U.S. Homeland Security Department is helping to stem migration from Guatemala. In a new effort to tackle immigration issues, the United States is sending additional homeland security agents to Guatemala, where they will assist ...
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 ...
When migrants arrive in Tijuana, they add their name to a list, which has been managed by a series of volunteers who are waiting their turn to speak with CBP. 13,000 immigrants are currently on ...
The practice of blood testing asylum seekers will deter false family asylum cases, or so the Trump administration hopes. The Trump administration will phase in DNA testing of families applying for asylum at the U.S.-Mexico ...
Citizen Truth Reporter Jenna Mulligan is traveling across the U.S.-Mexico border and reporting on immigration issues. In the latest video, Jenna visits the Benedictine Monastery in Tucson, AZ. The church recently converted into a migrant ...
During the week of Dec. 16, Californian Congressmembers Nanette Barragán and Jimmy Gomez camped out in the cold at the Tijuana-San Diego border to help facilitate the safe passage of Honduran immigrants into the US. ...
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 ...
Italy’s interior minister is Europe’s answer to President Donald Trump with an even more hardline stance on immigration than his American counterpart. Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who took the position in June, said that he ...
Last Friday, 14 members of the European Union (EU) said they had reached an agreement with Germany over the return of asylum seekers. The countries included are Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Finland, ...
On Wednesday, the new Italian populist government, noted for its anti-immigration stance, defended its decision not to open its port to a refugee rescue boat carrying around 600 migrants, despite criticism from the European Union ...
Three Spanish firefighters returned to Greek courts this week, where they were acquitted from charges of human trafficking and smuggling across international borders. The three men, founding members of the Spanish Professional Emergency Aid Association ...
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