american immigration council
Posted May 24, 2022, 7:03 am
Elsa Hortareas
/Cronkite News
Supporters of Title 42 welcomed the court ruling that blocked a plan to pull the plug on the program Monday - but migration advocates said the Friday ruling by a federal district judge will only prolong a rule that has been an “outright failure” as a border policy.... Read more»
Posted May 19, 2022, 5:15 am
Daisy Gonzalez-Perez & Elsa Hortareas/Cronkite News
Children of visa-holding parents - or “documented Dreamers” - are pushing for passage of the bipartisan America’s CHILDREN Act of 2021 that would protect them from being deported when they turn 21.... Read more»
Posted Jan 24, 2022, 5:02 am
Cody Copeland
/Courthouse News Service
People are forced to flee increasingly violent Central American countries like Honduras, where the United States’ endorsement of the 2009 coup of the democratically elected President led to extreme levels of insecurity and instability that continue to drive people out of the country.... Read more»
Posted Dec 28, 2021, 5:27 am
René Kladzyk
/El Paso Matters
As a candidate, Joe Biden emphasized how different his immigration policy would be from that of former President Donald Trump, promising to “take urgent action to undo Trump’s damage,” but after nearly a year of the Biden presidency, immigrant advocates are disheartened.... Read more»
Posted Jul 9, 2021, 2:49 pm
Kayla Goggin
/Courthouse News Service
Under a July 1 directive signed by ICE's acting Director Tae Johnson, immigration officials will no longer detain, arrest, or take into custody those who are pregnant or nursing unless their release is prohibited by law or "exceptional circumstances".... Read more»
Posted Jul 5, 2021, 11:23 am
Uriel J. Garcia
/Texas Tribune
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the state needs to build a border wall to reduce migrant apprehensions and fentanyl seizures, but immigration and drug treatment experts say Abbott's oversimplifying the issue.... Read more»
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Posted Nov 14, 2019, 4:32 pm
Lori Robertson
/FactCheck.org
Donald Trump's tweet calling DACA recipients "very tough, hardened criminals" is not supported by evidence.... Read more»
Posted Nov 6, 2019, 11:38 am
Vandana Ravikumar
/Cronkite News
Lawyers in Arizona and southern Nevada said they have started receiving notices that Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants to set new court dates for their clients who are currently protected from deportation by DACA.... Read more»
Posted Aug 6, 2017, 1:32 pm
Brianna Stearns
/Cronkite News
The Homeland Security Department may not have the resources needed to hire the thousands of new agents President Trump has ordered, and even if it could it might not know how to best deploy them.... Read more»
Posted Jun 8, 2017, 10:42 am
Megan Janetsky
/Cronkite News
The House overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to waive polygraph tests for veterans applying for Border Patrol jobs, despite concerns that it could open the door to problem hires. Rep. Martha McSally's bill comes as Customs and Border Protection grapples with President Trump’s plan to hire an additional 5,000 agents.... Read more»
Posted Dec 29, 2016, 3:22 pm
Aida Chavez
/Cronkite News
Donald Trump’s most recent immigration pledge is to deport undocumented immigrants with criminal records, which he estimates at 2 million to 3 million immigrants – or roughly the same number deported by outgoing President Barack Obama.... Read more»
Posted Jun 29, 2016, 9:55 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
A federal judge in Tucson unsealed hundreds of pages of documents and photos this week as part of a class-action lawsuit over the treatment of detainees held by Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector.... Read more»
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Posted Sep 28, 2015, 8:12 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
A federal judge lambasted the agency for its handling of evidence, including destroying digital video that a coalition of immigration rights groups said shows that the agency regularly breaks its own policies regarding the treatment of immigrants held in Southern Arizona BP stations.
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Updated Jun 10, 2015, 4:33 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
During a six-month period in 2013, people detained by the Border Patrol near Tucson were regularly held more than 24 hours in temporary facilities, breaking the agency's own policies and subjecting immigrants to freezing, overcrowded cells without access to food, water, medical care and legal council, according to a new federal class-action lawsuit.
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Posted Aug 19, 2014, 8:12 pm
Jessica Mendoza
/Global Post
In the United States, thousands of immigrants – many of them underage, mentally ill or otherwise vulnerable – risk deportation as they face the court system without legal counsel.... Read more»
Updated Jul 29, 2014, 2:26 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
The family of Jose Antonio Elena Rodiguez, the Mexican teen killed in Nogales Sonora, by U.S. Border Patrol agents when they fired through the fence into Mexico in 2012, filed a civil rights lawsuit Tuesday. "I'm asking the people who killed my grandson to have the courage to show their faces," the 16-year-old's grandmother said.... Read more»