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Immigration
Immigrant Detainees in Washington Will be Paid Minimum Wage
By Jasmine Aguilera
Rate of Successful Asylum Cases Shot Up
By Jasmine Aguilera
Undocumented Immigrants Are Now Mostly Protected From Arrest at Homeless Shelters, Playgrounds and Vaccination Sites. But It's Still Hard to Feel Safe
By Jasmine Aguilera
Why the US Took Zero Uyghur Refugees in 2021
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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
October 20, 2021
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
October 13, 2021
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
October 12, 2021
The Invisible Tragedy Facing Refugees Like Me
In August the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, leading to hundreds of thousands of Afghans being forced from their homes by violence. These Afghans join the millions displaced worldwide in this year alone, and they...
By Mondiant Dogon
October 8, 2021
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
October 4, 2021
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
September 30, 2021
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
August 20, 2021
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
July 15, 2021
'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
July 1, 2021
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
May 20, 2021
Exclusive: Trump Created an Office That Highlighted Immigrant Crime. Biden's DHS Plans to Keep It
In January 2017, one of Donald Trump's first moves as President was to create a new office that highlighted crimes committed by undocumented immigrants. For four years, the Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement office, known...
By Vera Bergengruen
May 14, 2021
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
April 8, 2021
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
April 2, 2021
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
March 19, 2021
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
March 3, 2021
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
February 12, 2021
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
February 2, 2021
Judge Temporarily Blocks Biden’s 100-Day Freeze on Deportations
A judge granted a restraining order that temporarily blocks President Biden’s 100-day freeze on most deportations for 14 days.
By Jasmine Aguilera
January 22, 2021
The Legacy of Trump's Border Wall
Trump visited the U.S./Mexico border in his first public appearance since Jan. 6. Here's what to know about the legacy of his border wall.
By Jasmine Aguilera
January 12, 2021
Women Provide Testimony Alleging Medical Abuse By ICE Doctor
The lawsuit on behalf of 14 women alleges Amin performed unnecessary and nonconsensual medical procedures on them as far back as 2018.
By Jasmine Aguilera
December 22, 2020
DACA Has Been Fully Reinstated. Here's Why
The government began officially accepting new DACA applications after a judge fully reinstated the program. Here's what that means
By Jasmine Aguilera
December 8, 2020
U.S. Shares Formerly Undisclosed Data on Separated Parents
The government has shared previously undisclosed data with those locating the parents of children who were separated at the border.
By Jasmine Aguilera
December 3, 2020
Inside Mental Health Care For Families Separated at the Border
Families separated at the border were traumatized. Accessing mental health care is an uphill battle
By Jasmine Aguilera
November 25, 2020
What a Biden Administration Means for U.S. Immigration Policy
President-elect Joe Biden has promised to undo most, if not all of President Trump's changes to immigration, but when and how will be complicated.
By Jasmine Aguilera
November 20, 2020
Asylum Seekers With Disabilities Challenge Trump Admin's MPP
A class action lawsuit filed Monday by asylum seekers with physical disabilities or mental health conditions challenges the Trump Administration's "Remain in Mexico" policy.
By Jasmine Aguilera
November 2, 2020
Trump Defends Family Separation Policy at Debate
President Donald Trump defended his Administration's decision to separate migrant children from their parents
By Lissandra Villa
October 23, 2020
Asylum Seekers Miss Deadlines Due to COVID-19
Stuck in Mexico, asylum hearings postponed indefinitely, and without access to a mailbox, many have missed their one-year deadline to submit their applications for asylum.
By Jasmine Aguilera
September 25, 2020
ICE Detains Kids Despite Court Order, COVID-19
120 children remain in ICE detention despite court order for them to be released due to COVID-19 concerns
By Jasmine Aguilera
August 14, 2020
'Family Separation 2.0'
Parents in ICE custody must choose to either give up their kids, or keep them in detention as COVID-19 cases increase in the agency's facilities
By Jasmine Aguilera
July 27, 2020
Inside the Effort to Get ICE Detainees Released
From protests, to lawsuits, calls to abolish ICE and release people from detention have become more urgent amid the COVID-19 pandemic
By Jasmine Aguilera
July 20, 2020
'Devastating Upheaval'
International students say they are fearful after new federal guidance could require them to leave the U.S. if their schools switch to an all-online curriculum
By Sanya Mansoor
July 7, 2020
DACA Recipients Celebrate Supreme Court Ruling
"Dreamers" talked to TIME about the Supreme Court ruling in favor of keeping the DACA program in place—for now
By Jasmine Aguilera
June 18, 2020
The Supreme Court Has Sided With DACA Recipients, For Now
The ruling decided that the Trump Administration didn't properly pursue an end to the program, and said the Administration could try again
By Jasmine Aguilera
June 18, 2020
U.K. Government Announces New 'Points-Based' Immigration System, Mandating Foreign Workers Prove They 'Can Speak English'
Boris Johnson’s government unveiled plans to end what it called the U.K.’s dependence on “cheap low-skilled labor” and deliver on its pledge to halt freedom of movement from the European Union after Brexit. Under a...
By Olivia Konotey-Ahulu / Bloomberg
February 19, 2020
CBP Commissioner: U.S. Border Officers 'Overzealous' In Detaining Iranian Nationals, Iranian-American Citizens
At least 200 travelers of Iranian descent were detained at the U.S.-Canada border in January, after the U.S. ordered a drone strike that killed one of the country's top generals, prompting retaliation with an attack...
By Mahita Gajanan
February 12, 2020
Justice Dept. Announces Lawsuits Over Immigration Policies
On the same day, New York officials sued the White House for blocking trusted traveler programs
By Jasmine Aguilera
February 10, 2020
Michigan State University Student Sent Back to Iran
"They just told him that he was inadmissible"
By Tara Law
January 28, 2020
What to Know About Trump's New 'Birth Tourism' Rule
Would this new restriction impact pregnant women with genuine medical needs? It will come down to how individual counselors enforce it
By Madeleine Carlisle
January 24, 2020
Northeastern University Student Sent Back to Iran Despite Valid Visa, Judge's Order As Immigration Attorneys Warn of 'Troubling' Pattern
Immigration officials revoked the student's visa when he arrived in Boston
By Katie Reilly
January 22, 2020
The Complicated Truth About What U.S. Citizenship Means Today
The first time I saw the Statue of Liberty was 25 years ago, from a noisy ferry that brought me and hundreds of other eager tourists across New York Harbor. Back then I was a...
By Laila Lalami
January 16, 2020
Border Apprehensions Decline For 7th Month In a Row
Apprehensions at the border have declined for the 7th month, according to CBP data released Thursday. The reasons why are complicated
By Jasmine Aguilera
January 10, 2020
Refugees Fleeing Nazi Germany Reshaped Hollywood. This Forgotten Woman Helped Make It Possible
An estimated ten thousand refugees from Germany and Austria settled in greater Los Angeles between 1933 and 1941
By Donna Rifkind
January 2, 2020
Ellis Island Welcomed Thousands to America—But It Was Also a Detention Center
As many as 12 million people are thought to have first stepped foot in the United States through Ellis Island’s immigration offices, which opened on Jan. 1, 1892
By César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
January 1, 2020
'No Misconduct' In Cases of 2 Kids Who Died in DHS Custody
Office of the Inspector General says 'no misconduct' found after 7 and 8-year-old died in U.S. Border Patrol custody in December 2018.
By Jasmine Aguilera
December 20, 2019
A Child Needed Surgery in the U.S., Gov't Sent Her To Mexico
It was supposed to be a journey that would save her life, when U.S. immigration officials brought a 7-year-old girl named Ajlee from an asylum-seekers' camp in the Mexican border city of Matamoros to an...
By Jasmine Aguilera
December 19, 2019
Trump's Anti-Abortion and Anti-Immigration Policies May Share a Goal
As a candidate, Donald Trump promised to restrict abortion and immigration. As President, he has delivered on these promises. He has stacked the federal bench with conservative judges hostile to reproductive rights. He has emboldened...
By Reva Siegel
December 13, 2019
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