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Grant asylum to families torn by Trump
BY: EMILY COHODES, SAHANA KRIBAKARAN AND DYLAN GEE, LOS ANGELES TIMES – DEC. 8, 2020 More than 5,400 children have been detained and separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico ... -
Lawyers can't find the parents of 666 migrant kids, a higher number than previously reported
By Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley, NBC News – Nov. 9, 2020 WASHINGTON — Lawyers working to reunite migrant families separated by the Trump administration before and during its "zero ... -
Deported Parents Choosing Not to Be Reunited with Children, Holding Out Hope to Return to ...
By RYAN MILLS, National Review – October 26, 2020 When the American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday submitted its most recent court filing on the status of children separated from ... -
Lawmakers urge ICE to release migrant families together following court order
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 ... -
The Supreme Court in the Mean Season
A summary decision kicks an untold number of legal immigrants off the path to citizenship… By Linda Greenhouse, Opinion Writer for The New York Times ~ Feb. 13, 2020 The Freudian ... -
Trump Administration Says It Can’t Reunite Children with Immigrant Parents
By: Ed Brayton~Patheos~ February 4,2019 A few weeks ago, the Trump administration admitted that they had actually stolen thousands more children from their immigrant parents after they crossed the border ... -
Shunting asylum seekers to Mexico doesn’t absolve the U.S. of its duty to them
By Editorial Board, Washington Post – December 25 at 3:51 PM IN TESTIMONY to Congress on Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen spoke at length, and repeatedly, about the threats ... -
A Mexican Man’s fatal journey to reclaim his American life
By Simon Romero ~ NY Times ~ October 14, 2018 Everything that was dear to Adrian Luna was in a small town in Idaho, and when he was deported, he ... -
The 5-year-old who was detained at the border and persuaded to sign away her rights
By Sarah Stilman~ New Yorker ~ October 11, 2018 Helen—a smart, cheerful five-year-old girl—is an asylum seeker from Honduras. This summer, when a social worker asked her to identify her strengths, ... -
The awful things I saw and heard at the border
By Philip Jordan ~ BuzzFeed ~ October 12, 2018 On a recent trip to a south Texas detention center, I saw the rawest, saddest expressions of despair you could imagine. ...