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Migrant boy’s ‘discouraging trauma’ leads judge to block his transfer to fifth home
Byron Xol was riding in a van, his Pokémon figurines in tow, heading to his fifth home in 10 months. The 9-year-old Guatemalan, separated from his father last year at the border under the Trump
Senate plans votes on competing bills to reopen government
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday scheduled a pair of competing votes to reopen the federal government, announcing that he would bring up dueling proposals from President Trump and the Democrats that would
Trump promises to stop the migrant caravan. But his administration struggles with how to do it.
President Trump’s attempts to pin political blame on Democrats for a caravan of thousands of Central American migrants headed toward the United States have obscured growing concern within the White House over how to manage
Still separated: Nearly 500 migrant children taken from their parents remain in U.S. custody
Lawyers are cold–calling phone numbers in far-flung Central American villages, and enlisting church pastors and schoolteachers to help. They are spreading the word on radio stations, putting up posters and setting up Spanish-language hotlines. They
D.C. Has Legal Aid For Immigrants, But The City Doesn’t Use Tax Dollars to Help Undocumented Ones That Are Detained
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) often touts her administration’s immigrant legal-aid fund when activists say she hasn’t done enough to protect undocumented residents from President Trump’s immigration crackdown. The mayor’s office has awarded $1
Amid Migrants’ Complaints Of Frigid Holding Cells, A Battle For Control Of Border Thermostats
The tired and poor masses crossing the border illegally do a lot of huddling after coming to America. It’s the air conditioning. So notoriously cold are the U.S. Border Patrol’s detention cells that those heading north
These Migrants Were Separated From Their Children – And Aren’t Sure They Should Be Reunited
LAS NUECES, Guatemala — The United States government separated their family at the border, leaving them with an agonizing choice. José Ottoniel was deported to Guatemala in June, a month into President Trump’s “zero tolerance” crackdown.
A congressman answers the question ‘where are the girls’
As journalists and elected officials have gotten a chance to tour facilities in which children are being held after being separated from their families under the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, a question has cropped
The series of choices faced by immigrants fleeing Central America
There’s a uniformity to President Trump’s depictions of the immigrants crossing the border with Mexico. They are “bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists,” according to his campaign announcement. Those entering the country illegally are
Family separations could double, says Border Patrol chief in Rio Grande Valley
EDINBURG, TEX. — As outrage mounts over the Trump administration’s separation of hundreds of migrant children from their parents, the person overseeing that zero-tolerance policy on the busiest stretch of the Southwest border said the