07 April

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Lawyers find the parents of 61 more separated migrant children

in High Pressure, Immigrant Families, Noteworthy Developments

The lawyers believe that the parents of 302 children who have not yet been reached were deported to Central America. WASHINGTON — Lawyers tasked with reuniting migrant families separated during the Trump administration said in a federal court filing late Wednesday that they have recently contacted the parents of 61 more children. The filing in the Southern District of California shows that the number of known separated children whose parents have yet to be reached by the pro bono...

02 April

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DHS watchdog finds widespread mistreatment of immigrants at ICE facility

Posted by Scarleth Cardona

in Asylum & Deportation Proceedings, Immigrant Families, Noteworthy Developments

Immigrants held at an immigration detention center in Arizona were subject to widespread mistreatment last year, ranging from inadequate medical care to excessive punishment for peacefully protesting lax coronavirus mitigation efforts, an internal government watchdog found. During a remote inspection of the La Palma Correctional Center in Eloy, Arizona, the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) found violations that jeopardized "the health, safety, and rights" of detainees, according to a report published Thursday. Citing...

01 February

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Trump expands long-standing immigration ban to include six more countries, most in Africa

Posted by Scarleth Cardona

in Immigrant Families, Noteworthy Developments, Visas

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President Trump added six countries to his administration’s travel ban Friday — including Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country — in a widely anticipated expansion that Democrats blasted as “clearly discriminatory” against people from predominantly black and Muslim nations. Citing national security concerns, officials at the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department said Trump’s proclamation would bar most citizens of Nigeria, Eritrea, Myanmar and Kyrgyzstan from coming to work and live in the United States....

23 January

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U.S. Imposes New Visa Rules For Pregnant Women

Posted by Scarleth Cardona

in Immigrant Families, Noteworthy Developments, Visas

The State Department revealed new visa rules on Thursday that could affect pregnant women traveling to the U.S. The rules are designed to restrict so-called “birth tourism,” which applies to women giving birth in the U.S. so their children can have citizenship. Applicants will be denied tourist visas if consular officers determine their visit is designed primarily to give birth and obtain citizenship for their child, according to the rules that take effect Friday. The rules...

21 June

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What it’s like inside the former superstore in Texas where the US is holding 1,400 immigrant children

Posted by Scarleth Cardona

in Asylum & Deportation Proceedings, Border Patrol - USCIS, High Pressure, Immigrant Families, Noteworthy Developments, The Immigrant

Brownsville, Texas (CNN) The strangeness of the largest migrant children's center in the United States, near the border with Mexico, shows up in the details. Here, there are 1,469 boys, ages 10 to 17, housed inside the 250,000-square-foot shell of a former Walmart superstore. None of the 313 bedrooms have doors. Or ceilings, so that children lying in their beds look up past where their walls end to the scaffolding of the superstore roof high above. The...

21 June

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Flores agreement: Trump’s executive order to end family separation might run afoul of a 1997 court ruling

Posted by Scarleth Cardona

in Asylum & Deportation Proceedings, Border Patrol - USCIS, High Pressure, Immigrant Families, Noteworthy Developments, The Immigrant

The solution to the crisis of family separation at the US-Mexico border, the Trump administration has decided, is to get rid of a 1997 federal court decision that strictly limits the government’s ability to keep children in immigration detention. The administration has fingered Flores v. Reno, or the “Flores settlement,” as the reason it is “forced” to separate parents from their children to prosecute them. It claims that because it cannot keep parents and children in immigration detention together, it has no...

21 June

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Trump Retreats on Separating Families, but Thousands May Remain Apart

Posted by Scarleth Cardona

in Border Patrol - USCIS, High Pressure, Immigrant Families, Noteworthy Developments, The Immigrant

WASHINGTON — President Trump caved to enormous political pressure on Wednesday and signed an executive order meant to end the separation of families at the border by detaining parents and children together for an indefinite period. “We’re going to have strong — very strong — borders, but we are going to keep the families together,” Mr. Trump said as he signed the order in the Oval Office. “I didn’t like the sight or the feeling of...

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U.S. Imposes New Visa Rules For Pregnant Women

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Flores agreement: Trump’s executive order to end family separation might run afoul of a 1997 court ruling

Trump Retreats on Separating Families, but Thousands May Remain Apart

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Lawyers find the parents of 61 more separated migrant children