A girl with cerebral palsy is being held in immigration detention. The ACLU just sued for her release
A girl with cerebral palsy is being held in immigration detention. The ACLU just sued for her release
Lawyers for an undocumented 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who was detained in Texas after undergoing surgery demanded her immediate release on Tuesday in a lawsuit filed against the Trump administration in […]
Feds Will Skip Border Wall Impact Study Before Building Through Wildlife Refuge
By Anya Byrd, Colorlines (2.5 minute read) Though funding for the estimated $21.6 billion U.S.-Mexico wall has not yet been secured, the federal government continues to move forward with construction. […]
Trump team seeks agency records on border barriers, surveillance
*In case there was still any doubt about how Trump plans to go about implementing his immigration policy, there was a clear hint early last month. His transition team has […]
U.S. plans raids to deport families who surged across border
*The Obama administration has been discussing this for several months, and there’s a lot of controversy over it within the administration. The pressure on DHS is to respond to a […]
Iowa Pastor Deported Back to Honduras
*This happened today, in the era of Obama’s ordered “prosecutorial discretion.” Either this is a one-off case, or the immigration rank-and-file is blatantly disregarding the president’s directive. VL By Juan […]
Beyond the border: Lawman’s burden
*”The way that some people die out here, nobody deserves to go through that.” – Daniel Walden, volunteer sheriff patrolling on his own time. VL A south Texas sheriff’s department […]
Unaccompanied minors: How about some perspective
*The unaccompanied minor story constantly changes. Here’s the latest chapter, in the form of Homeland Security statistics that show how the number of unaccompanied minors has dwindled to half of […]
Little-known immigration mandate keeps detention beds full
By Ted Robbins, NPR/KPCC Imagine your city council telling the police department how many people it had to keep in jail each night. That’s effectively what Congress has told U.S. […]
Deporting A Cause Celebre: The Case Of Pedro Gutierrez
By Raisa Camargo, Voxxi Today was to have been Pedro Gutierrez‘ final day in the United States before being deported to his native Mexico. The 24-year-old has spent 17 years of […]
Report: Widespread Abuse By Patrol Agents Along Border
Last week the humanitarian organization No More Deaths released a document detailing widespread abuses by border patrol agents against people in their custody. The report, A Culture of Cruelty, […]
