Attorney General William P. Barr issued an order that could keep thousands of migrants seeking asylum in jail while they wait for their requests to be evaluated by a judge. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/us/politics/asylum-facts-seekers-laws.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…
Tag: Immigration Detention
Analysis: The Border Is Broken. And There’s No Plan to Fix It.
For years, there have been warnings that America’s immigration system was going to fail. That time may be now. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/us/immigration-border-trump-asylum.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Who Is Left to Say No to Trump?
Kirstjen Nielsen is the latest one out of the president’s spiraling cabinet who expressed his cruelty but wouldn’t go as far as he wanted. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/opinion/kirstjen-nielsen-trump-border.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
U.S. Says It Could Take 2 Years to Identify Up to Thousands of Separated Immigrant Families
A judge had asked the government to locate children who were separated from their families before the Trump administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy was made public. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/us/family-separation-trump-administration.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
We Fled the Gangs in Honduras. Then the U.S. Government Took My Baby.
I still don’t know where or in whose care my daughter was when we were apart. She’s still traumatized. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/opinion/border-honduras-separation-gangs.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The Interpreter: Border Crackdowns Feed a Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Fear and Backlash
In the United States and Europe, efforts to control unauthorized arrivals can heighten perceptions of chaos at the border. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/world/americas/us-immigration-crackdown.html?partner=rss&emc=rss