By ANDREA CASTILLO, Los Angeles Times, Staff Writer , Sept 27, 2019 A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s plan to dismantle protections for immigrant youths and indefinitely hold families with children in detention. Those protections are granted under the so-called Flores agreement, which was the result of a landmark class-action court settlement ...

By: Miriam Jordan ~ The New York Times ~ August 20, 2019 Nearly 35 years ago, long before the current mass influx of Central American families making their way to America’s southern border, a different and more brutal migrant crisis was unfolding. In El Salvador, government death squads were stalking ...

By Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, Immigration Impact – Jun 10, 2019 Only weeks after threatening to impose tariffs on Mexico, President Trump backed down on Friday after both countries announced that Mexico would step up immigration enforcement at its southern border. The Mexican government also said it would also expand its participation in the so-called “Migrant ...

By Matt A. Barreto ~ The NY Times ~ October 24, 2018 Photo Credit: Mike Blake/Reuters Immigrant children housed in a tent encampment in Tornillo, Tex., in June.  When children are being locked away, Republican attacks on immigrants will backfire. Over the past few weeks, on the campaign trail and at ...

Photo Credit: Erik S Lesser/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock. President Trump stops to speak with reporters before heading to a rally in Charlotte on Friday. By Nick Miroff & Maria Sacchetti ~ Washington Post ~ October 26, 2018 President Trump is preparing to announce a sweeping border crackdown in a speech Tuesday, a week ...

By MSW@USC Staff, March 15, 2018  Living under the perceived threat of detention and deportation is having harmful mental health effects on undocumented immigrants and their families, according to Dr. Concepcion Barrio, associate professor at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. “It just creates an air of constant fear and ...

By MARTHA MENDOZA AND LARRY FENN / AP ~ TIME ~ July 13, 2018 (SAN ANTONIO) — Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually — a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds. Health and Human Services ...

Photo credit: Andrea Elena Castro, daughter of Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, holds a U.S. flag during a Rally For Our Children event on May 31 to protest the "zero tolerance" immigration policy that has led to the separation of families. By Joel Rose ~ NPR ~ June 7, 2018 A ...

Baja California Sistema Educativo Estatal ~ Miércoles, 23 de mayo de 2018 TIJUANA, B.C.- MIÉRCOLES 23 DE MAYO DE 2018.  El Sistema Educativo Estatal (SEE) presentó este día el Proyecto de Colaboración con The California-Mexico Studies Center (Centro de Estudios California-México o CMSC por sus siglas en inglés) en la Escuela Primaria Alfonso Reyes, ...

By: BBC ~Angélica M Casas ~ November 29, 2017 As Mexican parents are deported from the United States, or self-deport in fear, their US-born children often return with them. It’s estimated that some 54,000 American children now live in Mexico's northern state of Baja California, where the school system has seen ...