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Immigration
How Immigration Courts Hurt Immigrants
By Jasmine Aguilera
Biden’s Charm Offensive in Mexico
By Brian Bennett
Biden Visits Border Amid Migrant Surge
By Brian Bennett
The Politics Behind Biden's Border Visit
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Hundreds of Migrants Arrive in El Paso As Court Orders Title 42 to Stay in Place
The uptick in arriving migrants is squeezing the city's resources at a precarious time for U.S. border policy.
By Jasmine Aguilera/El Paso, Texas
December 20, 2022
Why House Republicans Want to Try to Impeach Mayorkas
House Republicans want to investigate the DHS Secretary next year amid an increasingly complex situation at the border.
By Jasmine Aguilera
December 8, 2022
The Inspiring Story Behind 'The Swimmers'
Yusra and Sara Mardini saved a boatful of fellow asylum seekers from drowning in the Aegean Sea. Now a Netflix movie tells their story
By Armani Syed
November 23, 2022
Senate Committee Finds Medical Abuse of Detained Women at Georgia ICE Facility
The subcommittee determined that the women detainees at the Irwin County Detention Center "appear to have been subjected to excessive, invasive, and often unnecessary gynecological procedures."
By Jasmine Aguilera
November 16, 2022
DACA Is Slowly Dying Unless Congress Steps in to Save It
"We are at a point now where unless there's a legislative solution to provide permanent protections for DACA recipients, many will likely lose what they have built over the last decade."
By Jasmine Aguilera
October 28, 2022
Trump Compares Migrants to Invading Army
Speaking at a rally 130 miles from the U.S. border with Mexico, Trump said migrants trying to enter the country were "like an army."
By Brian Bennett
October 22, 2022
Inside Migrants’ Journeys on Greg Abbott's Free Buses to Washington
The process defies what one might expect from the national rhetoric.
By Jasmine Aguilera/Del Rio, Texas
September 12, 2022
Masters Bets on Immigration Outcry in Arizona
Few Republican candidates are pushing immigration as hard as Blake Masters is ahead of November.
By Eric Cortellessa
August 26, 2022
Latino Organizers Aim to Lift Midterm Turnout
In Nevada, the Latino community holds 20% of the electoral power and the first and only Latina sent to the Senate is on the ballot this fall.
By Philip Elliott
August 11, 2022
Biden Administration Still Hasn't Ended 'Remain in Mexico'
The Supreme Court said the Biden Administration can end MPP, but a month later, it still hasn't. Here's why
By Jasmine Aguilera
July 29, 2022
Why Human Smuggling Deaths Will Continue After the San Antonio Tragedy
Four men are in jail charged in connection to the failed human smuggling attempt that left 53 people dead in San Antonio in June, but experts and advocates who have studied migrant death tolls say...
By Jasmine Aguilera
July 19, 2022
San Antonio Migrant Truck Driver Could Face Death
On Thursday, the Associated Press, citing an unnamed U.S. official, reported that the truck in question had passed through a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint about 26 miles north of the border city of Laredo while the migrants were inside
By Jasmine Aguilera and Simmone Shah
June 28, 2022
Why the Children of Immigrants Get Ahead
In April 2020, the New York Times ran a special feature called “I Am the Portrait of Downward Mobility.” “It used to be a given that each American generation would do better than the last,”...
By Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan
June 1, 2022
Afghans in the U.S. Can Now Apply for Temporary Protection
The Biden Administration will now allow Afghans in the U.S. to apply for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a designation that would protect them from deportation for 18 months, grant them a work permit, and give...
By Jasmine Aguilera
May 20, 2022
Judge Blocks Biden's Effort to End Title 42
Title 42 will now likely remain in place for the foreseeable future
By Jasmine Aguilera and Madeleine Carlisle
May 20, 2022
New York Mosque Offers Refuge to Afghan Kids
The local Afghan community has stepped in to care for children who fled the Taliban and arrived in the U.S. alone.
By Jazzmin Jiwa
May 18, 2022
Remain in Mexico Battle Shows Flawed U.S. Immigration Policy
On April 26, the Biden Administration will argue before the U.S. Supreme Court that it has the authority to end a controversial Trump-era policy that requires migrants seeking asylum in the United States to wait...
By Madeleine Carlisle
April 25, 2022
How the Biden Administration Contradicts Itself on Key Immigration Policies
It was a warm evening in August when Keren, a 34-year-old migrant woman from Honduras, noticed a seriously injured man running down the street in Nogales, Sonora, a city just across the U.S.-Mexico border from...
By Jasmine Aguilera and Madeleine Carlisle
March 28, 2022
Immigration Court Backlog Surges to 1.6 Million
Roughly 1.6 million people are caught up in an ever-expanding backlog in United States immigration court, according to new data tracking cases through December 2021. Those with open immigration cases must now wait for a...
By Jasmine Aguilera
January 20, 2022
Reuniting Families Separated Under Trump Is Expensive. Should the U.S. Government Pay?
Republican pundits and lawmakers have made political hay over news reports indicating that the federal government is engaged in negotiations involving a $450,000 per person payout to those victimized by former President Trump's family separation...
By Jasmine Aguilera
December 6, 2021
Immigrant Detainees in Washington Will be Paid Minimum Wage
A jury decided that a private company should have paid detainees minimum wage for their labor, awarding total of $17.3 million in backpay.
By Jasmine Aguilera
November 11, 2021
Rate of Successful Asylum Cases Shot Up
A higher rate of people are winning their asylum cases in court. According to a new report, 37% of cases have won since Biden took office.
By Jasmine Aguilera
November 10, 2021
Undocumented Immigrants Are Now Mostly Protected From Arrest at Homeless Shelters, Playgrounds and Vaccination Sites. But It's Still Hard to Feel Safe
The Biden Administration has dramatically expanded an existing federal list of areas where immigration officials are prohibited from making arrests. While the prior list previously included schools, court houses, hospitals and anywhere religious services were...
By Jasmine Aguilera
November 5, 2021
Why the US Took Zero Uyghur Refugees in 2021
The U.S. has taken zero Uyghur refugees for two years, despite both the Trump and Biden Admins condemning China's persecution of the group.
By Jasmine Aguilera
October 29, 2021
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
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