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.
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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.
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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.
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A judge ordered immigrant children removed from troubled Texas facility. They’re still there.
Nearly a month ago, a judge ordered immigrant children removed from a troubled Texas facility and told the government to stop drugging them without consent. That hasn’t happened.
Immigration
Federal government files new regulations that will affect how migrant families are treated
Even as it fails to reunify hundreds of families, the federal government says the court oversight mandated in a landmark case is no longer needed.
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Lost on the border: A decade later, a man finds his father’s remains on Facebook
Eliseo Cárdenas Zetina disappeared after trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in 2008. His five children had held out hope that he was still alive.
Immigration
Government should pay for migrant families’ mental health services, lawsuit says
Besides separation, trauma is triggered by other factors: limited phone calls, crowded cells, lack of information about family whereabouts.
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Judge approves plan to reunite 366 children with deported parents, but questions linger
A judge has OK’d a plan to reunite 366 children with their deported parents. But questions linger about whether reunifications will occur in the U.S.
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Government still searching for parents of 26 migrant children
Nearly 1,600 children have been reunited with their parents, the government reports. The parents of another 559 aren’t eligible for reunification.
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Troubled Texas facility still holds 28 immigrant children as deadline nears, attorney says
More than a week after a judge ordered that immigrant children staying at the facility should be moved, more than two dozen children are still there.
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Judge orders government to release immigrant kids from troubled shelter
A federal judge rules that the government should remove immigrant kids from a troubled Texas facility and stop drugging them without consent.
Immigration
Immigration lawyers, judges vexed by new Trump policies
Advocates see the events of recent months as integral to President Donald Trump’s broader plans to restrict immigration.
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Study finds high-skilled immigrants benefit economy as Trump moves to make lives more difficult
The more high-skilled immigrants a firm has, the more innovative it is likely to be, according to new research.
