REFUGEES & ASYLUM SEEKERS
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Por: Efe ~ La Opinion ~ 16 de Julio, 2020 Gobierno y defensores de los migrantes no se han puesto de acuerdo en cómo dejarlos en libertad. Una jueza federal en California dio este jueves otros 10 días al Gobierno de Donald Trump para que deje en libertad a los ...
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By: David Bacon~ LA Progressive ~ July 8, 2020 For Mexican workers, farmers, and the poor, the pandemic and the new treaty replacing NAFTA are a devastating one-two punch. In the debate over the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, the new trade treaty replacing NAFTA that went into effect on July ...
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By: Miriam Jordan ~ The New York Times ~ June 26, 2020 The order, which cited the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, applies to children held in the nation’s three family detention centers for more than 20 days. Citing the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge in Los ...
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By: Camilo Montoya- Galvez ~ CBS News ~ June 30, 2020 Congressional Democrats urged the Trump administration on Wednesday to promptly release all families currently held in immigration detention, joining advocates and lawyers in calling for parents and children to be allowed to leave together as the coronavirus continues to ...
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By: New American Economy - April 26, 2020 This week, President Trump announced a new Executive Order suspending much of immigration to the United States for 60 days, a move that ignores the pivotal role immigrants are playing to contain the virus, care for the sick, and set up an ...
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Los Angeles, April 24, 2020 In a significant victory for immigrant children, U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee has determined that the federal government has failed to meet its legal obligations to children in immigration custody during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dozens of immigrant children in federal custody ...
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Irene Sotelo has seen many changes in her life and overcome many obstacles. Sotelo has gone from drugs, prison and homelessness to getting her degree from CSULB in criminology and now pursuing her master degree in Long Beach on Tuesday, November. 20, 2018. She has also founded the Rising Scholars ...
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Photo credit:Mose Buchele/KUT- About 100 newly arrived immigrants listen to a volunteer walk them through the process to seek asylum at a Catholic Charities respite center in McAllen, Texas. By Mose Buchele ~ NPR ~ June 26, 2018 At a highway-side motel in Harlingen, near the border in Texas, a small ...
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Protesters who call for an immigration bill addressing the so-called dreamers, young adults who were brought to the United States as children, rally on Capitol Hill in December. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters) By Washington Post Editorial Board ~January 8, 2018 AFTER ALL of President Trump’s bluster about his “great love” for “dreamers,” brought to this ...
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By Kate Morrissey, L.A. Times ~ December 30, 2017 So many people fleeing persecution in their home countries have asked for help in San Ysidro in recent weeks that federal officials have not been able to process all of them, leaving some stranded and running out of money while they wait in ...