Immigration

In a study published on September 12, the Colorado Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights found the backlog in naturalization applications has ballooned and wait times have doubled in the last three years.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A U.S. judge on Friday blocked new Trump administration rules that would enable the government to keep immigrant children in detention facilities with their parents indefinitely.

While the pilgrimage was a public form of protest and resistance, the Garcías resist each and every day in mundane yet powerful ways.

By Nourelhoda Eidy, Ronnie Alvarez, and Madeline Simone As three students who spent our summers learning about the health impacts of immigration work raids, we find it is necessary to reflect on the implications of Trump’s interior enforcement tactics. Our research is enabled by accounts of people either directly affected by raids or those who […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration and Honduras signed an agreement Wednesday that would effectively prevent asylum-seekers traveling through Central America from entering the United States. It follows earlier deals with El Salvador and Guatemala and would pave the way to send asylum-seekers to Honduras, among the world’s most violent countries, as is its neighbors.

As a scholar of immigration law, I can state with authority that —unlike other policies— this particular move will likely result in the death, kidnapping and torture of individuals seeking safety from persecution and torture in their home countries.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge said Friday that he was struggling with a request to more narrowly define what behavior justifies separating children from their parents at the border after complaints that the Trump administration has abused discretionary powers to split families under limited circumstances, like criminal history or questions about whether the adult is really the parent.

NEW YORK (AP) — The United States planned to sign an agreement on Friday to help make one of Central America’s most violent countries, El Salvador, a haven for migrants seeking asylum, according to a senior Trump administration official.

NEW YORK (AP) — As news of immigrant parents being separated from their children at the border filled headlines last summer, Vivien Tartter became distraught.

So the 67-year-old psychology professor took action: She opened the doors of her Manhattan apartment to a Guatemalan family of three who had been separated at a detention center in Colorado, reunited in New York and had no place to stay.

This is about cruelty and nothing else.

I am thankful beyond words that Alejandro, and all his very famous friends, have chosen to put a spotlight on the challenges facing DREAMers.

JUÁREZ, Mexico (AP) — Long after midnight, when the heat has finally relented and the walled courtyard is scattered with men sleeping in the open, someone begins to sob.

RN Response Network/National Nurses United release 20-page report called “Compassion Without Borders: RNs Report on the Public Health Crisis at the Border.”

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (AP) — Abel Oset was seized with panic. After an 11-country odyssey that began when he and his namesake son fled Cuba, and a brief moment on U.S. soil, he was crossing back into America.

“Between 2006 and 2018, CBP issued contracts worth $26.1 billion which exceed the accumulated Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) budgets from 1975 to 1998,” a new report noted.

More pure gold.

Latino Rebels Radio: September 15, 2019

The “Remain in Mexico” policy violates United States treaty obligations (of non-refoulement), the Immigration and Nationality Act, and more.

CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court’s clearing of the way for the Trump administration to deny nearly all asylum requests from Central Americans and other migrants caused despair along the border Thursday and was denounced by activists as a “death sentence” for those trying to escape poverty and violence in their homelands.

A President who incites violence against citizens and residents has no legitimate or moral claim to the authority of the office.

Influential media outlets have legitimized dehumanizing language aimed at immigrants, according to Define American.