Hundreds of Children Are Being Held at the Border for Longer Than the Law Typically Allows
Kevin Torres, 7, right, helps Darwin Ruiz, 5, put his shoes on in Huntington Station, New York in July 2014. Kevin arrived in the United States, unaccompanied, from El Salvador in May 2014. Seth Wenig/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. US law prohibits the government from holding unaccompanied children at…
Trump’s Immigration Crackdown is a Boom Time for Private Prisons
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Hardline immigration policies put in place by President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have inspired more than just fear and panic in immigrant communities—they’ve also inspired investors in private prisons. In the week following the 2016 election, stock prices for the country’s two biggest…
Key Arizona Republican Freaks Out Over “Another Generation of DACA-like People”
Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.)Bill Clark/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a House hearing on immigration Tuesday, Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) accused most asylum seekers of immigration fraud and suggested that unaccompanied children who reach the United States are likely to become MS-13 gang members. She warned that if the asylum…
The Republican Primary in Georgia Is Taking Racism to a Whole New Level
“Criminal illegal aliens are spreading across the country,” warns Georgia Lieutenant Gov. Casey Cagle (R) in a recent ad.Casey Cagle/YouTube Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Republican gubernatorial primary in Georgia has devolved in recent weeks into a chest-thumping argument over which candidate hates undocumented immigrants the most. In their…
How Trial by Skype Became the Norm in Immigration Court
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rob DobiTess Feldman stood in an empty San Francisco courtroom, facing a three-foot-wide television screen. “Good morning!” she shouted toward a camera connected to the TV. “Can you hear me?” A stunned-looking man in an orange prison jumpsuit appeared on screen. An inmate at the Mesa…
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…