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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…
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan said on Sunday that 350 migrant children are in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody — down from 2,500 last month. “On June 1 we have 2,500 children in our custody; 1,200 had been with us over three days. Now that we have…
A senior government official and Homeland Security Department doctor said that he thinks the children in migrant detention centers are getting the same care as his own children. “I’m a doctor and a parent. I’m very comfortable in my own skin, and I would do for these folks what I…
Border patrol agents forced a Honduran migrant at a processing center in Texas was forced to hold a sign that said “I like men” in Spanish in order to humiliate him. According to emails obtained by CNN and written by a Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agent who witnessed the incident,…
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