Immigration

Examination will include look at DHS’s regular facility inspections.

“You had immigration reform that had been languishing for 30 years, and within the Obama administration, 400,000 deported from this country in one year alone, destroying families and breaking up communities,” the Texas Democrat said at one point.

What the facts say these days.

Laura Molinar started a grassroots organization to help asylum seekers in shelters get access to medical care. But quickly, a bigger need arose—access to birth control and emergency contraception for the migrant women.

Advocates launch Immigration Court Watch app to ensure greater accountability, transparency.

Dignity will come at great cost to both Mexico and to the migrants fleeing extreme poverty and violence in Central America.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico and its largest city sued the Trump administration Monday in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit from a state seeking to stem the quick release of asylum seeking migrants into local communities and claim reimbursement for humanitarian efforts to shelter migrants temporarily.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a deal with Mexico to stem the flow of migrants at the southern border, the two countries appear unable to agree on exactly what’s in it.

SAN MARCOS, Guatemala (AP) — A near-death experience in the Arizona desert a year ago won’t deter Francisco Pérez from another attempt to migrate to the U.S., nor will an increased police presence in southern Mexico.

In attendance were Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Kamala Harris, Governor Jay Inslee, and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Julián Castro.

TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — At the small migrant Juventud 2000 shelter near the border, a Honduran expressed disappointment Sunday over the agreement between Mexico and the United States to more aggressively to curtail migration from Central America.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he has suspended plans to impose tariffs on Mexico, tweeting that the country “has agreed to take strong measures” to stem the flow of Central American migrants into the United States.

Prison inmates are picking fruits and vegetables at a rate not seen since Jim Crow.

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra is sending a tough message to Venezuelan migrants: Abide by the rules or pay the consequences.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and Mexican officials labored for a second day Thursday to avert import tariffs that President Donald Trump is threatening to impose as he tries to strong-arm Mexico into stemming the flood of Central American migrants at America’s southern border.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Thursday he will hold a “unity” rally on the border in Tijuana two days before the U.S. is set to impose tariffs on all Mexican imports.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Homeland Security Department’s internal watchdog says rotting food, moldy and dilapidated bathrooms and agency practices at immigration detention facilities may violate detainees’ rights.

PHOENIX (AP) — The federal government has stopped paying for English-language courses and legal services at facilities that hold immigrant children around the country, imposing budget cuts it says are necessary at a time when record numbers of unaccompanied children are arriving at the border.

Of those apprehensions, 84,542 (63.6%) were family units and 11,507 (8.7%) were unaccompanied minors, while 27.7% of apprehensions were 36,838 single adults.

CAMOTÁN, Guatemala (AP) — Flies buzzed around the drinking water and food in the home of Ericka Gutiérrez Vásquez, as her 6-year-old son, Darwin, lay bedridden with diarrhea and vomiting.

“What worries me now is that this administration seems unwilling or unable to learn from the experiences of the past,” said Johnson in an interview with Latino USA.