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 ...
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 ...
The federal government admitted an additional 1,250 kids have been separated at the U.S. border, though the ACLU suggests that number may be as high as 2,000. On Friday, a Health and Human Services official ...
There is evidence that Mexicans migrating to the U.S. today are significantly different than their counterparts making the move more than a decade ago. (Rogelio Sáenz, The Conversation) Once upon a time, not long ago, ...
“As hundreds of thousands of Bahamians seek refuge or start to rebuild after Hurricane Dorian, we cannot have the kind of confusion that occurred last night in Freeport.” Hundreds of Hurricane Dorian survivors were told ...
“Every single separated kid has been terrified. We’re [seen as] the enemy.” Migrant children seperated from their parents during the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy last year suffered intense trauma, as detention facilities proved inadequately ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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.” ...
A group of academics surveyed Syrian refugees to understand their mental state and feelings about possibly immigrating to the West. (By Arie Kruglanski David Webber, Erica Molinario, and Katarzyna Jaśko, The Conversation) While today’s news is full ...
Trump inherited an immigration system that already left millions of undocumented people with few rights and had militarized the southern border. (By Anthony W. Fontes, The Conversation) From the Trump administration’s Muslim travel ban to ...
“The latest air strike could constitute a war crime that has caused hideous and most tragic deaths.” At least 44 civilians including women and children, believed to be African migrants, were reportedly killed and more ...
The ICC provides no legal counterbalance to the arrogance of an empire’s power. In June, a group of international lawyers sued the European Union for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ...
“We cannot continue to throw money at a dysfunctional system.” Both chambers of Congress passed legislation to provide billions in aid for the growing border crisis, but House Democrats are concerned the Senate-passed version does ...
“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 ...
Scott Warren was arrested in 2018 for allegedly having “harbored” two fatally weakened undocumented migrants in a facility run by No More Deaths. (PeoplesDispatch) Scott Warren, an activist associated with the organization No More Deaths, ...
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 ...
Mexico is one of the U.S.’ biggest trading partners, and the new Mexico tariffs complicate the president’s goal of creating a revised trade pact between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. President Trump announced new tariffs ...
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 ...
“This one’s particularly ugly.” (By Julia Conley, Common Dreams) In what one critic deemed a “nauseating example of the revolving door” through which powerful political players often move in and out of the private sector, ...
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 ...
“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, ...
This video is part of a series on immigration at the border. In a previous video Citizen Truth reporter Jenna Mulligan rode along on a water drop and aid drive in the Arizona desert which ...
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 ...
“Illegal Immigrants who can no longer be legally held…will be, subject to Homeland Security, given to Sanctuary Cities and States!” House committee chairs have requested documents from the White House and Department of Homeland Security ...
The ACLU is looking into reports of abusive treatment of transgender women and gay men at an ICE detention center near Chaparral, New Mexico. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) authored a letter released on ...
The Women’s Refugee Commission report details the atrocities faced by refugees in camps in Libya, and the brutality of the Libyan Coast Guard, both of which have been financed by the European Union in an ...
A new law passed by Congress again cuts United States’ funding for Palestine. Thanks to a bill passed last year in Congress, the U.S. just ended its roughly $60 million annual financial support of Palestine, ...
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. ...
“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 ...
“Anyone who has good faith should have agreed to this pact.” Last Monday, more than 150 member countries of the United Nations (U.N.), agreed on an international treaty to address the growing challenges related 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 ...
Q: During the Obama administration, did Border Patrol agents use tear gas to control crowds of migrants during incidents at the U.S.-Mexico border? A: Yes, and the gas was also used by administrations prior to his, news ...
After being detained for three weeks, a Philadelphia man just barely escaped being deported to Jamaica in a case of mistaken identity. ICE almost deported Peter Sean Brown, a 50-year-old American citizen born in Philadelphia to ...
“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 ...
Citizen Truth reporter Jenna Mulligan, who is stationed in Mexico, traveled to meet and interview the migrant caravan first-hand as it arrived in Mexico City. This is the first of her reports. After spending five ...
“He would tell me that if immigration ever found out, my son and I would be deported instantly.” A young Honduran woman was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a staff member at Berks Family Residential Center ...
Australia has not escaped the refugee crisis that has plagued the rest of the world and now new reports of refugees being held in limbo for years sparked thousands to protest. Business came to a ...
Thanks to an overnight bus ride by Citizen Truth reporter Jenna Mulligan, Citizen Truth is reporting live from Mexico City where the migrant caravan carrying thousands of migrants from Central America began to arrive yesterday ...
As refugee numbers swell in Europe and the “Balkan route” explodes, unsanitary and overcrowded camps are forcing migrants into clashes with police. Refugees at the Croatian border clashed with police in the last week of ...
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 ...
Greece has charged members of a migrant rescue group with human trafficking in an effort to crack down on the organization’s aid to refugees crossing the Aegean Sea. At least four humanitarian workers and members ...
Trump has lowered the total number of refugees allowed into the U.S. each year since he took office, and now his 2019 quota is the lowest on record. On Thursday the White House announced the ...
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 ...
(Sunlight Foundation) The Office of Refugee Resettlement removed its staff directory from its website, likely between October and December of last year. The change came just before the political firestorm over the Trump administration’s family separation ...
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