Immigration

The New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator said in a statement late Thursday that more tests need to be done before a cause of death can be determined for Felipe Gómez Alonzo.

The government also plans to house more teens at another temporary shelter in Homestead, Florida, expanding the total number of beds from 1,350 to 2,350.

“There is a real failure here that we all need to reckon with,” said incoming Rep. Veronica Escobar, a Democrat elected last month to represent El Paso in Congress.

“In the last 24 hours, I have a directed a series of additional actions to care for those who enter our custody,” Security Secretary Kirstjen M. Nielsen said.

Pieces that explain this human drama, not amplify political rhetoric about refugees.

The death came during an ongoing dispute over border security and with a partial government shutdown underway over President Donald Trump’s request for border wall funding.

The process at the border remains status quo until specific new procedures are put in place.

“I don’t deserve to get deported. I deserve to stay here in this country with my children because they are American citizens,” Rosa Gutiérrez López said.

This got real.

The decision was a historic one for Mexico, which has traditionally refused to accept the return of any migrants who aren’t Mexican.

The federal government has placed most of the 14,300 migrant toddlers, children and teens in its care in detention centers and residential facilities packed with hundreds, or thousands, of children.

Across 10 years, FY 2018’s 256,085 removals are the fourth lowest year.

“It’s systemic failures like that, that we’ve had a chance to uncover today, and also will have an opportunity to recommend policy changes to correct those,” Rep. Joaquin Castro said.

Jonathan Jayes-Green discusses the complexities of this population.

The telecast will focus on Puerto Rico’s recovery efforts to rebuild and raise awareness after Hurricane María massively struck the island in 2017.

The American Civil Liberties Foundation of Southern California and the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School have filed a class action lawsuit against ICE, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, and private prison operator Geo Group, Inc. for creating unlawful barriers to attorney-client communications.

Nery Caal disputes the claim that his daughter had not had anything to drink or eat.

Without a resolution, parts of the federal government will shut down at midnight Friday.

Poet Javier Zamora is forced to return to El Salvador to apply for a visa, his first trip back in nearly 20 years.

In a statement released by lawyers, the parents of Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin said the girl had been given food and water and appeared to be in good health as she traveled through Mexico with her father.

The girl, identified by a Guatemalan official as Jackeline Caal, had gone days without food and water, a Department of Homeland Security statement said. Yet immigration officials said she did not appear to be ill when detained.