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When migrants go home, they bring back money, skills and ideas that can change a country
Escaping violence, war, poverty and environmental disaster, more people than ever are migrating worldwide. Some 258 million people – 3.4% of the global population—live outside their country of birth.
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'No shower, no shower!': Migrants shout as Pence visits Texas detention centers
Vice President Mike Pence saw firsthand the extreme overcrowding migrants are often forced to endure at federal detention centers when he visited two Friday in Texas. Agents wore face masks, and video showed detainees packed into their holding areas surrounded by chain-link fence, the concrete floors littered with silver thermal blankets. Reporters accompanying Pence described the facility as smelling "horrendous."
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Italian police arrest migrant-rescue ship captain after docking
Italian police arrested on Saturday the German captain of a migrant-rescue ship ...
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Father and Toddler Daughter Found Drowned, Clinging to Each Other in Rio Grande After Trying to Reach U.S.
The man and his nearly 2-year-old daughter tried to swim across the river after not being able to apply for asylum with U.S. authorities.
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US Government leaves migrant children in vans for up to 39 hours
Our nation is still failing at reuniting the migrant children we illegally, forcibly, and immorally separated from their parents.
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A Presidency That Will Live in Infamy
The House Judiciary Committee convened on Tuesday without its star witness. Don McGahn, the former White House counsel and a key witness in the Mueller report, refused to appear after President Trump ordered him not to testify. New York Representative Jerry Nadler, the committee’s Democratic chairman, told the assembled lawmakers and spectators that congressional subpoenas “are not optional.” He also condemned Trump in some of his strongest language yet.
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Pope Francis donates $500,000 to migrants at US border
The Vatican says media interest in the migrants is declining -- as is aid.
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White House Considers Restricting Remittances to Mexico to Stop Illegal Migration
The White House is considering a plan to curb payments sent to Mexico and Central American countries in order to stem a surge of illegal aliens pouring into the United States. A senior administration official told reporters on April 10 the plan would restrict remittances from the United States in order to discourage migrants.
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Ex-Mozilla CTO: US border cops demanded I unlock my phone, laptop at SF airport – and I'm an American citizen
Former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal says he was interrogated for three hours by America's border cops after arriving at San Francisco airport – because he refused to unlock his work laptop and phone. Gal, now employed by Apple, today claimed he was detained and grilled on November 29 after landing in California following a trip to Europe. He had attempted to pass through US customs via a Global Entry electronic kiosk. He wasn't expecting a problem, since the Hungarian-born techie is now an American citizen, but it was not to be.
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The US Is Holding Hundreds Of Shivering Immigrants In A Pen Underneath A Texas Bridge
US immigration officials are holding hundreds of people in a temporary outdoor detention camp under a Texas bridge, where migrants are surrounded by fencing and sleeping on dirt. Hundreds of migrants being held in an outdoor camp underneath a bridge that connects the US and Mexico told BuzzFeed News that had they known they’d face such harsh conditions at the Texas border before they left, they may not have made the journey.
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Autopsy determines 7-year-old Guatemalan Girl Died from Sepsis while in US custody
Jakelin Caal Maquin and her father were detained in December, and Jakelin died two days later.
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'No regrets': Saudi sisters hope for bright future after hiding in...
Two Saudi Arabian sisters are hoping for a “bright, beautiful future” after being granted asylum, fleeing what they describe as an abusive family and a repressive society. The sisters fled from their family last September while on holiday in Sri Lanka and have been stranded in Hong Kong since an aborted attempt to get to Australia, where they hoped to secure asylum.
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George W. Bush: 'Immigration is a blessing and a strength'
Former President George W. Bush appeared at a naturalization ceremony Monday where he praised the nation's immigrant history and called on lawmakers to deliver comprehensive immigration reform. "America's elected representatives have a duty to regulate who comes in and when," Bush said at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, where dozens took the oath of allegiance to become citizens.
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Ocasio-Cortez asks Wells Fargo CEO why the bank finances the ‘caging of children’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) took aim at Wells Fargo on Tuesday, accusing the banking giant of “financing the caging of children,” during a congressional hearing with chief executive Tim Sloan. During Sloan’s appearance before the House Financial Services Committee, which is examining the company’s “pattern of consumer abuses,” Ocasio-Cortez pressed the CEO to explain why his company was financially supporting detention facilities where migrant children were held.
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Will Trump win his legal fight over the wall?
History does not bode well for Trump's opponents, says Jonathan Turley, professor of law.
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'Everything changed in 2016': Poles in UK struggle with Brexit
Members of Britain’s largest group of foreign nationals tell how love and admiration for their adopted country is turning sour
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H-1B visa lottery changing to favor those with advanced degrees
A subtle change with major implications is coming to the H-1B visa program that could give large tech companies an edge in bringing highly skilled workers to their sprawling Silicon Valley campuses, while hurting outsourcing firms that hire entry-level workers to fill software jobs. The Department of Homeland Security announced a rule change Wednesday that will transform the lottery that decides who gets the 85,000 H-1B visas granted to for-profit companies every year.
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U.S. set to send first group of asylum seekers back to Mexico
The United States was expected to send a first group of 20 Central American asylum seekers back to Mexico through the border city of Tijuana on Friday as part of President Donald Trump’s hardening of longstanding U.S. immigration policy.
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Thai police say they won't deport Saudi woman seeking asylum
The head of Thailand's immigration police said Monday that an 18-year-old Saudi woman who was stopped in Bangkok as she was trying to travel to Australia for asylum to escape alleged abuse by her family will not be sent anywhere against her wishes. The woman, Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, was allowed to temporarily enter Thailand under the protection of the U.N. refugee agency, which was expected to take at least five to seven days to evaluate her case and claims for asylum status.
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Jailed, Raped, Deported—and Desperate to Return Home to America
The tragic story of a family ravaged by the U.S. immigration system.
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