There’s a 700,000-Case Backlog in Immigration Courts. Jeff Sessions Just Decided to Pile On More.
Susan Walsh/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the past 10 years, the backlog in America’s immigration courts has nearly quadrupled to roughly 700,000 cases. On Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a decision that could dramatically expand that backlog at a time when immigrants often wait years before judges…
This Man Was Trump Before Trump. He Just Won Pennsylvania’s Senate Primary.
Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.), left, appears with Donald Trump at an October 2016 campaign rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.Christopher Dolan/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nearly a decade before Donald Trump launched his campaign by accusing Mexico of sending “rapists” to the United States, Lou Barletta vowed to make the small city…
Trump Administration Could Send 57,000 Hondurans to One of the World’s Most Dangerous Places
Then-Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, left, greets Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández in March 2017 in Washington, DC. Hernández was reelected in November in what was widely considered a fraudulent election.Barry Bahler/ZUMA Days after Hondurans arrived at the US-Mexico border as part of a migrant caravan that incurred President Donald Trump’s wrath, the Trump…
Trump Is Undermining His Own Immigration Agenda With Attacks on Mexico
President Donald Trump walks with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during a visit to an anti-smuggling center in Key West, Florida, this month.Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. After a brief hiatus, President Donald Trump is back to tweeting that Mexico should crack down on migrants. Trump wrote…
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Has Separated Hundreds of Kids From Their Parents at the Border
In this July 7, 2015, file photo, immigrants from El Salvador are seen after their release from a family detention center in San Antonio, Texas. Eric Gay/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Though the Trump administration has claimed its immigration agents do not often separate families at the border, new data reveals that…
Married Immigrants Seeking Green Cards Are Now Targets for Deportation
Immigrants become US citizens at a USCIS ceremony in Phoenix.Jack Kurtz/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Fabiano de Oliveira had a clear path to staying in the United States: His wife was a US citizen, and he had a five-year-old son and no criminal history. He had been ordered deported…