Wisconsin Republican Eric Hovde trashes bipartisan border bill
The bill provides billions to beef up border security and streamline immigration.
By Jesse Valentine - February 09, 2024
The bill provides billions to beef up border security and streamline immigration.
By Jesse Valentine - February 09, 2024
Migrant activism has roots in the 1981 founding of the Sanctuary Movement, which spread more than 500 U.S. Protestant, Catholic and Jewish congregations, drawing on the ancient tradition of protecting people inside houses of worship.
By Associated Press - June 13, 2021
Almost one of every three unaccompanied children appearing at the border is from Honduras, second only to Guatemala.
By Associated Press - June 12, 2021
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with foreign ministers and leaders from Central America and Mexico.
By Associated Press - June 02, 2021
The Biden administration believes more than 1,000 families remain separated.
By Associated Press - May 03, 2021
After implementing a policy change on language, the acting U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner said, ‘The words we use matter and will serve to further confer that dignity to those in our custody.’
By Amy Lieu - April 29, 2021
Border Patrol is trying to stop people from dying — and the Republican congressman is very unhappy about it.
By Oliver Willis - April 06, 2021
Sen. John Cornyn’s same-day statements about the border don’t align with one another.
By Amy Lieu - March 22, 2021
‘It does not take that long to process children,” said Jenn Budd, former agent-turned-immigration activist.
By Amy Lieu - March 17, 2021
Nearly all of Health and Human Services’ 7,100 beds for immigrant children are full.
By Associated Press - February 24, 2021
The new administration is dismantling one of Donald Trump’s most consequential policies meant to deter asylum-seekers from coming to the United States.
By Associated Press - February 12, 2021
Stephen Miller is spending the final days of the election pushing for even more extreme immigration policies.
By Daniel Boguslaw - October 29, 2020
The Trump administration’s foot-dragging has made it even tougher to reunite families, experts say.
By Associated Press - October 23, 2020
A watchdog report said faulty data collection suggests there may be many more than 2,500 children who were separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border.
By Associated Press - March 05, 2020
Critics say the move raises confusion about why the Trump administration is expanding detention space while pushing policies to reduce asylum claims.
By Associated Press - February 26, 2020
The family of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca sued after Guereca was shot dead by an American Border Patrol agent.
By Associated Press - February 25, 2020
Trump says he’d allow New York to be part of trusted traveler programs again under certain conditions — a play similar to the one he made with Ukraine.
By Emily Singer - February 13, 2020
The Trump administration announced today that Rodney Scott will run U.S. Border Patrol, even though he was a member of Facebook group that mocked dead migrants and made crude sexual jokes about Democratic members of Congress.
By Oliver Willis - January 24, 2020
Lawyers for the migrants have alleged extreme overcrowding and inhumane conditions at holding facilities in Arizona.
By Associated Press - January 24, 2020
Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin, 7, and Felipe Gómez Alonzo, 8, died in U.S. custody last December.
By Associated Press - December 23, 2019
The state says the practice is interfering with criminal proceedings and deterring witnesses from testifying.
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