My Wish This Holiday Season
…take. Fortunately, many of these families who arrive at the U.S. border are given an opportunity to apply for asylum. Unfortunately, the systems in place often fail them. First, by…
Read MorePosted by Katie Shepherd | Dec 23, 2016 | Humanitarian Protection
…take. Fortunately, many of these families who arrive at the U.S. border are given an opportunity to apply for asylum. Unfortunately, the systems in place often fail them. First, by…
Read MorePosted by Wendy Feliz | Aug 15, 2016 | Border Enforcement, Detention, Refugee Status
…much. We are desperate, and we have decided that we will get out of here dead or alive. The twenty-two mothers, known as “Madres Berks”, all signed the letter and…
Read MorePosted by Travis Wentworth | Mar 23, 2012 | Legislation, Reform
…in Georgia. Jonatan, whose dream is to become a U.S. Coast Guard search-and-rescue diver, learned of his immigration status from a Coast Guard recruiter when he was 17. The five…
Read MorePosted by Katie Shepherd | Oct 12, 2020 | Detention, Enforcement, How the Immigration System Works
…Mayan language such as Ixil, K’iche’, Mam (of which there are four dialects), Popti’, or Q’anjob’al. Language access within immigration detention centers is a core civil right. Both U.S. Immigration…
Read MorePosted by Seth Hoy | Jun 27, 2011 | Enforcement, Immigration Courts, Legislation, State and Local
…Evans Barker blocked two provisions of Indiana’s immigration law, SB 590. Describing the law as “seriously flawed,” Judge Evans found that the law violated the Constitution’s due process, search and…
Read MorePosted by Guillermo Cantor | Jul 1, 2014 | Enforcement, Humanitarian Protection
…in which violence, extreme poverty, and the desire to reunite with family members, help shape these kids’ decision to migrate. According to the report, “crime, gang threats, or violence appear…
Read MorePosted by American Immigration Council Staff | Jan 25, 2017 | Enforcement, Humanitarian Protection, Uncategorized
…that could be considered a crime, no matter how small. The order also includes a revival of the problematic Secure Communities program (which was ended under the Obama Administration), orders…
Read MorePosted by Tory Johnson | Oct 15, 2020 | Abuses, Border Enforcement, Enforcement, Humanitarian Protection
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) launched another military-style raid on a humanitarian aid station in the Arizona desert, close to the U.S.-Mexico border. On October 5, Border Patrol agents…
Read MorePosted by Wendy Feliz | Jun 17, 2016 | Humanitarian Protection, Refugee Status
…to go to court or how to apply for asylum. In addition, the recent ICE actions focused on four states—Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia—where immigration courts have some…
Read MorePosted by Guest | Mar 20, 2020 | Changing Culture, Civil Dialogue
…never happened before.” Most recently, he called the coronavirus a “foreign virus,” which racializes and attributes otherness to it. In fact, viruses are equal opportunity entities, and do not discriminate….
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