Immigration

On November 12, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the Trump administration’s decision to end the program.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s left-leaning justices on Tuesday appeared willing to allow a lawsuit filed by the parents of a Mexican teenager shot over the border by an American agent, but their case will depend on whether they can persuade a conservative colleague to join them.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Jury selection started Tuesday in the second trial against an Arizona border activist accused of harboring migrants who sneaked across the U.S.-Mexico border.

COMAYAGUA, Honduras (AP) — The 3-year-old girl traveled for weeks cradled in her father’s arms, as he set out to seek asylum in the United States. Now she won’t even look at him.

NEW YORK (AP) — A Mexican immigrant fighting President Donald Trump’s attempt to end a program shielding young immigrants from deportation says he is nervous about the case finally being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Latino Rebels Radio: November 10, 2019.

“America is having its own 187 moment,” said Manuel Pastor, Director of the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration (CSII).

By JOSHUA GOODMAN, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — As the Trump administration in its early days tried to push through hardline immigration policies, it appeared to calculate their possible impact on the 2020 presidential race while rejecting national security warnings from U.S. diplomats, according to State Department memos made public Thursday. The internal documents, released […]

“Three months ago, on August 7, 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent hundreds of agents to Mississippi to arrest nearly 700 workers at seven chicken processing plants across the state. It was the largest statewide workplace raid in U.S. history, with 680 community members arrested,” Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) said.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A Salvadoran woman seeking asylum in the United States spends her days holed up in her cousin’s cramped slum house just across the border in Mexico—too scared to leave after receiving a savage beating from two men three weeks ago while she was strolling home from a convenience store.

A young DACA recipient shares stories about her immigrant family’s inability to move forward over the last two decades.

“Thank you, Pete Wilson.”

HEALDSBURG, Calif. (AP) — Two years ago, when fires ravaged Northern California, where tens of thousands Latinos in the U.S. illegally work at farms and vineyards, displaced families were seen sleeping on beaches or in their cars.

DHS says it is extending the TPS documentation in compliance with the preliminary injunctions issued by several courts.

“Making fee waivers inaccessible will hurt individuals who are trying to escape domestic abuse or trafficking, receive permission to work, or naturalize as citizens,” said Rebecca Smullin, the Public Citizen attorney representing NWIRP.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.S. Border Patrol official has a warning: The crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border is not over.

WASHINGTON (AP) — El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said Monday the United States government will extend temporary protected status for more than 200,000 Salvadorans living in the U.S.

The national discourse on immigrant rights must more clearly recognize that our criminal justice system is the main driver of family separation and child imprisonment.

Earlier this week, Latino Rebels received the following open letter.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. immigration authorities separated more than 1,500 children from their parents at the Mexico border early in the Trump administration, the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday, bringing the total number of children separated since July 2017 to more than 5,400.

The analysis by the University of Arizona’s Binational Migration Institute was based on interviews of 125 households representing individuals living in Pima County, Arizona.