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ICE Launches Low-Key Raids Targeting Migrant Families
A series of coordinated deportation raids is targeting recently arrived families from Central America.
With ICE Raids Looming, Immigrants Worry: ‘Every Time Someone Knocks, You Get Scared’
With the possibility of immigration raids looming, many immigrants were worried, and planning to stay out of sight. One family canceled their vacation.
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With ICE Raids Looming, Immigrants Worry: ‘Every Time Someone Knocks, You Get Scared’
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Trump Again Threatens ‘Major Operation’ Against Undocumented Migrants
Immigration officials said the raids could roll out over days. The Trump administration made similar threats last month without carrying them out.
U.S. Prepares to Arrest Thousands of Immigrant Family Members
Some of those targeted might end up being held in hotel rooms until their travel documents can be prepared. ICE’s goal is to deport the families as quickly as possible.
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Nationwide raids targeting migrant families are back on, scheduled to begin Sunday. Agents have expressed concern about arresting babies and young children. The arrests are expected to have a chilling effect across immigrant communities. With @KannoYoungs
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Hungry, Scared and Sick: Inside the Migrant Detention Center in Clint, Tex.
An out-of-the-way border station in the desert outside of El Paso has become the epicenter of outrage over the Trump administration’s policies on the southwest border.
Migrant Children Moved Back to Troubled Texas Border Facility
The Trump administration says it is transferring the children back to a shelter in Clint, Tex., that had seen hundreds of children held in overcrowded and filthy conditions.
Acting Border Chief Expected to Resign as Migrant Children Are Returned to Texas Facility
The Trump administration says it is transferring the children back to a shelter in Clint, Tex., that had seen hundreds of children held in overcrowded and filthy conditions.
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SCOOP: Acting Border Protection Chief Expected to Resign as Migrant Children Are Returned to Texas Facility. With @KannoYoungs
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Hundreds of Migrant Children Are Moved Out of an Overcrowded Border Station
The government has moved hundreds of migrant children who had been living in filthy conditions on the Texas border.
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UPDATE: Some of the children from Clint have been transferred into the HHS shelter system and others to a tent facility run by CBP in El Paso. We'll be updating as we learn more.
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‘There Is a Stench’: No Soap and Overcrowding in Detention Centers for Migrant Children
Inspectors and lawyers traveling to border facilities in Texas described tremendous overcrowding and filthy conditions for hundreds of children and other detainees.
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LATEST: Children, including infants, are being held in a filthy border station. Their clothes are soiled with mucus, feces and breast milk. No soap. No toothbrushes. Not enough food. Even the guards are wearing masks.
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‘These People Aren’t Coming From Norway’: Refugees in a Minnesota City Face a Backlash
As more Somali refugees arrive in St. Cloud, white anti-immigration activists have pressed an increasingly explicit anti-Muslim agenda.
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1/ Read this excellent story from @AsteadWesley about the influence of anti-refugee/anti-Muslim activists on local, state, and even national politics. This is not a one-off example…
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What It Looks Like to Care for Separated Migrant Children
Caitlin Dickerson, a reporter for The Times, reflects on the experience of a 24-year-old woman caring for children separated from their parents along the southwestern border.
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NEW: "It wasn’t just tears, it was screams." Baby Constantin's caseworker gave me a rare look into what it was like to care for separated children. She had to use puppets and drawings to tell to kids that their parents had been deported without them.
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The Youngest Child Separated From His Family at the Border Was 4 Months Old
Baby Constantin spent five months of his first year in a foster home. His family got a painful look at America’s experiment with family separation as an immigration policy.
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NEW: My story about Constantin Mutu, the youngest child separated from his parents at the border - he was four months old. By the time he was returned to his parents he’d spent the majority of his life in US custody.
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1,600 Miles, 85 Hours: A Migrant Family Takes a Greyhound Across America
Entering the U.S. at a rate of more than 5,000 a day, new arrivals from Central America are departing border towns by the busload. And that bus is usually a Greyhound.
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The journey hardly ends at the Southwest border for new immigrants to the US. Ride along with my colleagues @mirjordan and @heislerphoto on the final leg, where ranks stenches, sleeping in bus stations and running out of food are the norm
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Asylum Seekers Face New Restraints Under Latest Trump Orders
A presidential memorandum ordered measures that include barring some migrants from pursuing work permits and charging fees on asylum applications.
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A White House memo issued last night says that in 90 days, authorities will begin charging asylum seekers to apply for protection, eliminating their access to work permits and expediting their cases through the courts.
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3-Year-Old Found Alone at Border Is One of Many ‘Heartbreaking’ Migrant Cases
A toddler found wandering alone at the border in Texas was just one of a number of young children crossing the border unaccompanied by a parent, federal authorities say.
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Read this story about the very little kids who cross the border alone, without truly belonging to anyone in the group they're traveling with. From @MannyNYT and @mirjordan.
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In New Effort to Deter Migrants, Barr Withholds Bail to Asylum Seekers
Attorney General William Barr issued an order on Tuesday that could keep thousands of migrants in jail indefinitely while they wait for a resolution of their asylum request.
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The new attorney general jumped into the immigration fray with an order to indefinitely detain asylum seekers. Immigration jails are full and it's not clear what might happen if the order goes into effect in 90 days.
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Trump Says the U.S. Is ‘Full.’ Much of the Nation Has the Opposite Problem.
An aging population and a declining birthrate among the native-born population mean a shrinking work force in many areas.
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Rather than a country that's "full," economists see an aging population, declining birthrates, underpopulated cities and towns, vacant housing and troubled public finances
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The Brief, Controversial Tenure of Kirstjen Nielsen
As homeland security secretary, she enacted and publicly defended the family separation policy. In President Trump’s eyes, she didn’t go far enough.
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To help protect your head from spinning from all this news on immigration, I joined The Daily today to chronicle the brief and controversial tenure of Kirstjen Nielsen
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Is the U.S. a Democracy? A Social Studies Battle Turns on the Nation’s Values
Michigan spent five years debating how to teach American history. One of the biggest questions was how to describe the nation’s government.
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Fascinating story. Conservative activists in Michigan have pushed to, among other things, remove the term "democracy" from school curricula because they believe it is "not politically neutral or accurate"
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Migrant Family Separations Haven’t Stopped Despite Rollback of Policy
President Trump officially rescinded the practice of separating migrant families at the border, yet more than 240 children have been separated since.
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Family separations haven’t totally stopped: Kids have been sent to far away states with no record that they arrived with a relative and some cases appear to be thinly justified. W/ @mirjordan
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