A Federal Judge Ruled that the Government Must Treat These Separated Migrant Kids for PTSD
U.S. Border Patrol agents take a father and son from Honduras into custody near the US-Mexico border on June 12, 2018.John Moore/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Two immigrant children who were separated from their parents at the southern border have had their constitutional rights violated, a federal judge in…
The Trump Administration Is Working to Deport More Legal Immigrants
A woman holds a program and flag during a US Citizen and Immigration Services citizenship ceremony. Bebeto Matthews/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Earlier this month, as outrage continued over the Trump administration’s family separation policies, another immigration agency quietly introduced several changes that could threaten even more immigrants, many of them here…
A DNA Test, Vague WhatsApp Messages, and Home Visits: A Mother Fights to Get Her Daughter Back
Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Sendy Karina Ferrera Amaya opened her mouth, and a gloved hand gave each cheek a perfunctory brush with a cotton swab. Fifteen seconds, and the $429 DNA test she’d paid for was over. “Eso es todo,” the lab technician said last Thursday. That…
California’s Most Powerful Latino Politician is Trying to Unseat Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Saturday, the leadership of California’s Democratic Party endorsed state Sen. Kevin de León in his campaign to oust Sen. Dianne Feinstein. It was an upset—not least because Feinstein has been in office since 1992. She won 44 percent of the vote in California’s primary election…
ICE Detainee Dies in For-Profit Georgia Immigrant Detention Center
Suspected illegal border crossers at Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Tucson, Arizona, in 2012. Ross D. Franklin/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Immigration detention isn’t just costly—it’s deadly. Efrain De La Rosa, a 40-year-old Mexican national, was found unresponsive in his cell at Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center on July 10…
The Feds Are Locking Up Immigrant Kids—Who Have Committed No Crimes—In Juvie
Migrant children at a temporary shelter in Florida in June.Brynn Anderson/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Shortly after reaching the United States and turning himself over to Border Patrol, Alonzo, a 16-year-old immigrant from El Salvador, was invited to speak with a psychologist at the Bristow, Virginia, shelter where…