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Since former President Barack Obama left office, deportations of Cubans seeking asylum in the United States has increased more than tenfold under the Trump administration. In the last year, more than 800 Cubans have been deported, the Associated Press reported. It’s a combination of Obama ending the “wet foot, dry…
Over the past year, Louisiana has become the unlikely hub of immigrant detention in the United States. Eight thousand migrants out of 51,000 nationally are being detained across eight jails in the state, the Associated Press reported. One of the challenges for immigrants is the location of the eight detention…
In New York City, using terms like “illegal alien” and “illegals” to demean, humiliate or offend someone could classify as unlawful discrimination. The New York City Commission on Human Rights issued a Legal Enforcement Guidance on Discrimination on the Basis of Immigration Status and National Origin document, which focuses on…
A Fairfax County police officer has been restored to full duty after being suspended for going against orders and turning a driver involved in a traffic accident over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Though the investigation into the matter is ongoing, Chief Edwin C. Roessler Jr. said…
The 19-foot-tall bronze statue of a Mexican migrant and his family will be standing on a pedestal near the downtown Los Angeles spot where the city was founded. It is to honor the migrants, known as braceros, that helped make the city what it is now, CNN reported. Braceros — which…
On July 24, 2017, police in Southaven, Miss., burst into 41-year-old Ismael Lopez’s house just before midnight. They were looking for a domestic violence suspect. They didn’t know at the time, but they were in the wrong person’s house, The Washington Post reported. Police knocked on Lopez’s door then opened…
The Karnes County Residential Center stopped housing immigrant families in the spring because the White House said it couldn’t transport people there because of so many trying to cross the border. But it will soon have hundreds of parents and their children again, according to The Washington Post. U.S. Immigration…
The biggest budget cuts so far to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border are on the horizon. The border wall will have a total of $3.6 billion funneled from military projects like schools, target ranges and maintenance facilities, The Associated Press reports. $1.1 billion in cuts would directly affect…
Children who have been separated from their parents at the border are showing signs of severe trauma,clinicians told investigators with a government watchdog. Some kids think their parents have been murdered, others believe their parents abandoned them at the border. They also complain about symptoms of sickness even though medically…
Attorney General William Barris trying to increase his power and authority over deciding whether or not to deport immigrants with criminal convictions. On Friday, the people fought back. More than 40 elected state and local prosecutors on Fridaychallenged Barr’s changes to his amount of power and influence. Barr wants to…
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