Judges in federal courts have issued two major blows against the Trump administration’s multi-pronged immigration crackdown, ruling on Wednesday that the government cannot block undocumented migrants who enter the United States outside of authorized ports of entry from applying for asylum, and in a separate ruling that it cannot revoke …
Read More »Trump Developing Plan to Deport Migrants, Including Venezuelan Gang Members, to El Salvador: Report
The Trump administration is working on an asylum agreement with El Salvador. The deal would allow the United States to deport migrants who are not from El Salvador — including possibly Venezuelan gang members — to the small Central American nation to seek asylum, CBS News reported, citing two sources …
Read More »How Politicians Made the Border Even More Dangerous for Asylum-Seekers
JUÁREZ, MEXICO — It’s mid-June, and Yoemar has lost his shoes. He’s running in wet, muddy socks up the riverbank now. He’s running through thickets of thorny little bushes, his fingers wrapped up in the neck of his t-shirt, pressed to his stinging eyes, his feet skidding against the yellow …
Read More »The U.S. Immigrant Rights Movement Plans for a New Vision Under Biden
“The history and the story of immigration here is one of, primarily, exploitation,” says Isa Noyola. Noyola, a transgender activist based in Phoenix, is the deputy director of Mijente, one of the country’s most prominent immigrant-rights organizations, representing Latinx communities around the country. When Biden was declared the winner of …
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