Jasmine Aguilera

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Biden's ICE Raids Shift Is Too Late for Some

Every day for more than two years now, Hilda Jorge Perez has been on pins and needles, waiting for a call, a letter in the mail or a knock at the door that will determine...

By Jasmine Aguilera

Biden Administration Tells ICE to Stop Workplace Raids

Immigration and labor rights advocates celebrate new DHS guidance halting workplace raids and shifting focus to 'unscrupulous employers.'

By Jasmine Aguilera

Health Experts Condemn Biden's Border Rules

Biden is using Title 42, a 75-year-old public health measure, to expel more than 700,000 migrants

By Jasmine Aguilera

Promised U.S. Aid to Haiti Has Yet to Arrive

As the United States moves quickly to deport thousands of Haitians, the Biden Administration has repeatedly promised to support the migrants upon their return to their impoverished home country. But more than a week after...

By Jasmine Aguilera

Latino Entrepreneurs Were Among the Hardest Hit by the Pandemic. Now They Could Spur the Economic Recovery

Jaime Macias could hardly have opened his bar and restaurant, Jaime’s Place, at a worse time. In the weeks before his scheduled grand opening in October 2020, COVID-19 ran rampant through San Antonio. Restrictions had...

By Jasmine Aguilera/San Antonio , Andrew R. Chow and Mariah Espada

U.S. Immigrant Detention Centers Began with Haitian Migrants

The Biden Administration condemned a Border Patrol agent’s actions against Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas. Historians, however, see a pattern

By Jasmine Aguilera

Meet the Educators Who Saved A Pandemic School Year

29 stories of teachers, bus drivers and others who went above and beyond

By Jasmine Aguilera , Madeleine Carlisle and Katie Reilly

A New Documentary Depicts the Human Toll of Migrant Deaths

Missing in Brooks County zeroes in on a South Texas county, and families in search of loved ones who were lost at the U.S.-Mexico border.

By Jasmine Aguilera

Haitian Migrants in Tijuana Face an Uncertain Future

Haitians stranded at the U.S.-Mexico border are in a state of limbo due to U.S. immigration policies that would send them back to Haiti.

By Jasmine Aguilera/Tijuana, Mexico

Kidnapped & Separated From Her Child. A Mom's Border Journey

Expelled from the U.S., a mother was kidnapped in Mexico. Here's how she reunited with her child, who made it to the U.S. without her.

By Jasmine Aguilera

'Remain in Mexico' Winds Down, More Than 4,600 Are Left Out

Amid a dizzying crowd of migrants sheltering at Iglecia Embajadores de Jesus (Ambassadors of Christ church) in Tijuana, 26-year-old Gabriela Fajardo begins running toward the door with her 5-year-old son, Josseph, in hand. She’s racing...

By Jasmine Aguilera

Shelters Worn Thin as the U.S. Continues to Expel Migrants

Shelters in Mexican border cities are at capacity and scrambling for resources as the U.S. continues to expel migrants under Trump-era rule.

By Jasmine Aguilera / Tijuana, Mexico

ICE To End the Use of Facility in Hysterectomy Controversy

DHS will end the use of two of its facilities, including the Georgia detention center facing allegations of gynecological abuse.

By Jasmine Aguilera

Journalists Reflect on Covering Stories About Their Communities

Longstanding journalistic maxims would have a reporter remain disengaged while gathering the facts. But pursuing the whole truth means considering the humanity of one’s subjects—and of oneself. Lived experience can help a reporter empathize and...

By Jasmine Aguilera , Jenna Caldwell , Josiah Bates , Nadia Suleman , Naina Bajekal , Paulina Cachero , Sanya Mansoor and Suyin Haynes

Unaccompanied Children at the Border Doubled in March

Officials at the U.S.-Mexico border saw a 100% increase in the number of migrant children arriving alone from February to March, data shows.

By Jasmine Aguilera

What's Happening to Unaccompanied Minors at the Border?

Here's what to know about the unaccompanied migrant children arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, and how the government has responded.

By Jasmine Aguilera

Foster Families Are Stepping Up for Children at Border

The rise of unaccompanied migrant children at the border is a challenge for agencies having to rebuild gutted systems to shelter them

By Jasmine Aguilera

Inside the Program that Helps Pregnant Asylum-Seekers

Xiomara was already having labor pains when she presented herself to U.S. Border Patrol officials to make a claim for asylum. She had fled gang violence in El Salvador six months earlier, working under the...

By Jasmine Aguilera

Asylum Seekers Stuck in Mexico To Begin Transition Into U.S.

The Biden Administration plans to begin processing asylum seekers stuck in Mexico under Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy starting Feb. 19.

By Jasmine Aguilera

What to Know About Biden's Immigration Executive Orders

the Biden Administration announced three immigration executive orders ahead of a swearing in ceremony for the new DHS secretary

By Jasmine Aguilera
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