Tag: Immigration policy
Supreme Court rules against immigrants with temporary status
WASHINGTON — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that thousands of people living in the U.S. for humanitarian reasons are ineligible to apply to...
Luiselli’s prize-winning novel responds to migratory crisis
MEXICO CITY — Valeria Luiselli is pleased to have passed the libraries’ test with her first novel written directly in English, “Lost Children Archive”...
Texas push to close shelters for migrant kids alarms groups
AUSTIN, Texas — A move by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to shutter more than 50 shelters housing about 4,000 migrant children could seriously disrupt...
Study suggests more loopholes in Chicago’s sanctuary law
CHICAGO — A study released Tuesday suggests lingering loopholes allow Chicago police to share information with federal immigration authorities, despite activists’ hard-fought victory to...
US formally ends policy for asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Tuesday formally ended a Trump-era immigration policy that forced asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S....
Advocates in US push new efforts to bring back deportees
MIAMI — Jesus Lopez says he feels like a stranger in the place he was born.
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Tennessee shelter for immigrant children opened under Trump
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Tennessee licensed a shelter for immigrant children a year before the state's Republican governor and U.S. Senators began expressing outrage over...
Many wait uneasily as Biden unwinds key Trump asylum policy
SAN DIEGO — In March of 2020, Estela Lazo appeared before Immigration Judge Lee O’Connor with her two children, her muscles tensed and a...
Families separated at Mexico border build new American life
PHILADELPHIA — In a cramped house with mice in the kitchen and music booming from cars outside, Keldy Mabel Gonzales Brebe lays bare her...
Watchdog: US forced deported parents to leave kids behind
WASHINGTON — A government watchdog says the Trump administration, under its practice of separating families at the border, forced migrant parents to leave the...