Immigration
Flood of US citizenship applications increases wait times, anxiety
Immigration advocates are concerned that the slowdown is deliberate, a move to “suppress the vote” of these potential citizens.
Immigration
Immigration
When ICE strikes, volunteers hope to be there to help immigrants
An interfaith nonprofit in California’s Central Valley is seeking ways legal residents and citizens can respond if roundups and deportations begin.
Immigration
Immigrant families face new threat to children’s health: Uncertainty
A year later, the legacy of California’s first immigration raid under Trump still ripples through the local school and within families as well.
Immigration
Salvadoran man has evidence he’s not a gang member. US still separated him from his kids
The government hasn’t provided any proof of its claim that the man is affiliated with MS-13. He hasn’t seen his two kids in three months.
Immigration
No one on the inside can talk about what’s happening at the tent city for migrant kids
Lack of access to the pop-up federal detention camp has frustrated town residents and alarmed advocates who question the conditions there.
Immigration
Government could hold migrant families indefinitely in unlicensed detention centers under new plan
New regulations would affect the nearly 13,000 children currently in the care of the Office of Refugee Resettlement.
Immigration
The government pays for migrant children’s lawyers. Challenge the government, and they can lose their funding
For most migrant children detained alone, the only lawyers they’ll see are being paid by the same agency that’s holding them.
Immigration
The government won’t talk about its training for officers and troops at the border
We asked what training are officers and troops at the border getting. The government didn’t answer.
Immigration
Separated and kept in an office: How a 7-year-old remembers zero tolerance
Wilson should have been taken to a licensed shelter, with beds and showers. Instead, he was taken to an unfurnished, unlicensed office building.
Immigration
Immigrant children still being drugged at shelter despite judge’s order, lawyers say
Attorneys for immigrant children held at a troubled Texas shelter say kids continue to be forcibly drugged there despite a judge’s order.
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Trump administration agreed to new asylum hearings, but families face another month in detention
Separated families won a second chance to seek asylum under an agreement in federal court, but lawyers say the government has backed off its pledge.
Immigration
A Mauritanian man escaped his country’s ethnic cleansing. ICE deported him anyway.
Seyni Malick Diagne lived in the U.S. for 17 years. Battling cancer, he was deported last month to Mauritania, where he faces arrest and enslavement.
Immigration
Across the country, basements, offices and hotels play short-term host to people in ICE custody
The temporary holding facilities often come as a surprise to the unsuspecting civilians who work or live nearby.
