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Despite President Donald Trump’s rhetoric that smugglers are dangerous cartel members, the majority of people convicted in federal court in 2018 were American men, according to data from the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Nearly 63% of smugglers were Americans, 75% were men and 58% had no prior criminal history. The use…
A massive new migrant detention center will be opening close to the U.S.-Mexico border at the Marcelino Serna Port of Entry on the former site of a controversial shelter for migrant children. According to The Washington Post, the 2,500-bed shelter will be a “large soft-sided structure” and work on it…
Sweeping nationwide raids across the country’s 10 major cities to round up undocumented immigrants and deport them were delayed last week – but they’re now a looming threat once again. “Unless we do something pretty miraculous,” President Donald Trump said during a news conference after the G-20 summit in Japan, the raids…
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and top immigration enforcement official Ronald Vitiello were ousted last month in part because they didn’t support a White House plan to arrest upwards of 2,500 undocumented adults and their children, according to the Washington Post. The plan, which would have spanned 10 cities,…
Attorneys are fighting for their client, a Honduran transgender migrant, to be released from inhumane conditions. The attorneys also say that Nicole Garcia Aguilar, 24, is being illegally held, oftentimes in solitary confinement, even though she was granted asylum in October 2018. She is currently being held at an immigration…