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

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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

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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

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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...

20 June

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Taking Migrant Children From Parents Is Illegal, U.N. Tells U.S.

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GENEVA — The Trump administration’s practice of separating children from migrant families entering the United States violates their rights and international law, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday, urging an immediate halt to the practice. The administration angrily rejected what it called an ignorant attack by the United Nations human rights office and accused the global organization of hypocrisy. The human rights office said it appeared that, as The New York Times revealed in April, United...

09 February

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Congress Needs To Hold ICE Accountable for Abuses

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When Karah de Oliveira and her husband, Fabiano, showed up at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Office in Lawrence, Massachusetts, they expected to have an interview about their marriage, the first part of an application for a green card. Fabiano has lived in the U.S. since 2005 and the two have a 5-year-old son together. But Immigration and Customs Enforcement had other ideas. ICE arrested Fabiano, who became one of many members of our communities who have been arrested while...

06 February

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Civil Immigration Enforcement Actions Inside Courthouses

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are now going into federal, state, and local courtrooms to make arrests. According to a new ICE directive issued January 10, 2018: "ICE civil immigration enforcement actions inside courthouses include actions against specific, targeted aliens with criminal convictions, gang members, national security or public safety threats, aliens who have been ordered removed from the United States but have failed to depart, and aliens who have re-entered the country illegally after being...

11 December

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Deportations Of Noncriminals Rise As ICE Casts Wider Net

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WASHINGTON — The number of immigrants deported from the interior of the U.S. who had no criminal convictions nearly tripled during President Donald Trump’s first fiscal year as president, as he carried out his promise to ramp up enforcement on the undocumented population. The Trump administration insisted on Tuesday that agents are still focused on criminals, even though the president eliminated policies from the previous administration that instructed agents to prioritize some immigrants over others. A majority of immigrants...

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

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

Taking Migrant Children From Parents Is Illegal, U.N. Tells U.S.

Congress Needs To Hold ICE Accountable for Abuses

Civil Immigration Enforcement Actions Inside Courthouses

Deportations Of Noncriminals Rise As ICE Casts Wider Net

Immigration Agencies Ordered Not To Use Term ‘Illegal Alien’ Under New Biden Policy

Supreme Court Seems Poised to Back Limits on Green Cards

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