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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…
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…
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…
In Florida, the Homestead migrant child detention camp that has housed about 14,300 undocumented children in total since March 2018,is emptying out. Health and Human Services (HHS) told AP News that all children who had been at the facility are now with family members or at smaller state-licensed centers. The…
Migrants continue to die while in U.S. custody. A 32-year-old man from El Salvador died Thursday morning just hours after being apprehended by Border Patrol agents, CNN reports. The unnamed migrant “fell into medical distress” while being processed at the Lordsburg Border Patrol Station, more than two hours away from…
Francisco Erwin Galicia, an 18-year-old American-born U.S. citizen, was traveling north with a group of friends heading to his hometown of Edinburg, Texas, when they were stopped at a Border Patrol inland checkpoint. The Dallas Morning News first reported that Galicia was detained by Border Patrol because they suspected that…
Juan Sanchez, former leader of Southwest Key Programs, resigned earlier this year after it was publicly disclosed that he earned nearly $1.5 million in 2016 in compensation for detaining migrant children and teens for the U.S. government. Southwest Key Programs is a Texas-based nonprofit. But the $1.5 million was not…
Vice President Mike Pence toured two detention facilities on the Texas border Friday on President Donald Trump’s orders in order to show the conditions weren’t as bad as media reports said. Not surprisingly, that’s not what happened. The McAllen Border Patrol stations had hundreds of men that were crowded in…
The White House is backing down on trying to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. The administration held on for dear life as it was revealed, not surprisingly to most, that the question is meant to favor “non-white Hispanics and Republicans.” The question would have also likely systematically…
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…