For most migrant children detained alone, the only lawyers they’ll see are being paid by the same agency that’s holding them.
Immigration
Posted inImmigration, Law Enforcement, Militarization of Police
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.
Posted inImmigration, Kids on the Line
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.
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Posted inImmigration, Kids on the Line
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.
Posted inBorder Patrol, Immigration, Kids on the Line, National Security, The Trump Era
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.
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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.
Posted inImmigration, Inequality, The Trump Era
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.
Posted inImmigration, Kids on the Line
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.
Posted inImmigration, Kids on the Line
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.