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US says 2nd Guatemalan child has died in immigration custody
HOUSTON (AP) — An 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died in government custody in New Mexico early Tuesday, U.S. immigration authorities said, marking the second death of an immigrant child in detention this month. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said in a news release that the boy died shortly after midnight.
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Why are Guatemalans seeking asylum? US policy is to blame
A grainy cellphone image from a small indigenous Guatemalan village shows seven-year-old Jakelin Amei Rosmery Caal Maquin, wearing a blue blouse and jeans and looking diffidently into the camera with her arms hanging at her sides. Not long after the photo was taken, she accompanied her father on the over 2,000-mile journey to try and reach the US. She died while in US border patrol custody after arriving at a New Mexico port of entry to claim asylum.
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A raped migrant teen asked Trump officials for an abortion. She got counseling with Bible verses and coloring.
Officials working for the Trump administration took a 16-year-old immigrant who wanted an abortion to a religiously affiliated anti-abortion facility for counseling about her pregnancy. There, she was provided with “appropriate drawings to color and with Bible verses,” according to a government email reviewed by VICE News.
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Trump Moves to Deport Vietnam War Refugees
The White House again wants to expel certain groups of protected immigrants, a reversal after backing away from the policy months ago.
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He’s Built an Empire, With Detained Migrant Children as the Bricks
Juan Sanchez grew up along the Mexican border in a two-bedroom house so crowded with children that he didn’t have a bed. But he fought his way to another life. He earned three degrees, including a doctorate in education from Harvard, before starting a nonprofit in his Texas hometown. Mr. Sanchez has built an empire on the back of a crisis.
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A Defendant Shows Up in Immigration Court by Himself. He’s 6. — ProPublica
Wilder Hilario Maldonado Cabrera was the youngest defendant on the juvenile docket that day, and he was one of the last children left in government custody who had been affected by the zero-tolerance policy.
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A Guatemalan Mother Could Lose Her Daughter, Because She’s an American
A Guatemalan migrant separated from her daughter at the border has been told she faces the possible loss of her parental rights, in part because her daughter was born in the United States.
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The story of Thanksgiving is the story of a migrant caravan
At the holiday, let's give thanks for the Native Americans who did not turn away the Pilgrims -- our early "American caravan" -- at Plymouth Rock, says Jay Parini, and instead helped them to survive their first rough year in a new land.
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I Love America. That’s Why I Have to Tell the Truth About It.
Love it or leave it. Have you heard someone say this? Or have you said it? Anyone who has heard these five words knows what it means, because it almost always refers to America. Anyone who has heard this sentence knows it is a loaded gun, pointed at them.
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Prank calls succeeded in bringing ICE hotline to a standstill
When ICE launched an immigration crime hotline last year, the Trump administration pitched it as a way to provide resources to victims, but activists saw something else: an attack on the immigrant community. The hotline was part of the Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) Office, an outfit established in February 2017. When the office first launched a line for its services the following April, protestors flooded the hotline to call in pranks and slow down response times. The plan picked up even more steam as the protestors shared the hotline number online, encouraging others to call in with fake tips.
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Migrant caravan swells to 5,000, advances toward U.S.
Despite Mexican efforts to stop them at the border, a growing throng of Central American migrants resumed their advance toward the U.S. border early Sunday in southern Mexico. Their numbers swelled to about 5,000 overnight and at first light they set out walking toward the Mexican town of Tapachula, 10 abreast in a line stretching approximately a mile.
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Trump team uses new rationale to terminate TPS program for hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants
For the past year, the Trump administration has been phasing out a special immigration program that has allowed hundreds of thousands of foreigners from nations devastated by natural disasters and civil strife to live and work in the U.S. as legal residents. In order to do so, the Department of Homeland Security has tossed aside findings reached by Republican and Democratic administrations over nearly three decades and adopted a new, more narrow interpretation of U.S. law.
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The Trump administration has conducted 8,000 family separations and violated international law, rights group says
Amnesty International described the Trump administration's border policy as "a deliberate campaign of human rights violations against asylum seekers."
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ICE put a 4-year-old on a plane to Guatemala. Her dad found out 30 minutes before she landed
Six months after US officials separated them at the border, ICE put a 4-year-old girl on a plane to Guatemala this week so she could be reunited with her father. But there was one major problem, according to advocates who worked on the case: The man didn't learn his daughter was coming until 30 minutes before her flight was set to land in Guatemala City. He lives eight hours away -- too far to get there in time. After half a year apart from her father, the girl would have to spend another night in a shelter alone.
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Matteo Salvini to Germany: We are closing our airports for returning immigrants
The Deputy Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Salvini has threatened to shut down airport access a German plane returning illegal immigrants to Italy. A flight scheduled to arrive from Germany in Italy on Thursday will be carrying 40 illegal immigrants and Salvini said they would not be allowed to enter Italy once the plane had touched down.
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Hundreds of Migrant Children Quietly Moved to a Tent Camp on the Texas Border
In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in South Texas. Until now, most undocumented children being held by federal immigration authorities had been housed in private foster homes or shelters, sleeping two or three to a room. They received formal schooling and regular visits with legal representatives assigned to their immigration cases.
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Hundreds of Migrant Children Quietly Moved to a Tent Camp on the Texas Border
In shelters from Kansas to New York, hundreds of migrant children have been roused in the middle of the night in recent weeks and loaded onto buses with backpacks and snacks for a cross-country journey to their new home: a barren tent city on a sprawling patch of desert in South Texas.
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Hungary’s system to prevent migrant torture dubbed ‘ineffective’
Hungary’s system for preventing the ill-treatment of migrants is “ineffective,” according to a report by an anti-torture group. The report by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) was released Tuesday and is based on research carried out in October 2017 at the Hungary-Serbia border, near the Hungarian towns of Röszke and Tompa.
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U.S. reduces refugee ceiling to 30,000 for 2019
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Monday that the U.S. will limit refugee admission to 30,000 in 2019, down from 45,000 in 2018. When Trump took office, the refugee cap stood at 110,000. The new age of automation is building global momentum much faster than many thought, with more than half of the tasks done by human workers on pace to switch to machines in just seven years, according to a report released today.
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'They were laughing at us': immigrants tell of cruelty, illness, and filth in US detention
After harrowing journeys to the US, new arrivals are held in overcrowded and unhygienic conditions, dozens of interviews reveal. All day and night they listened to the wailing of hungry children. Here, in a freezing immigration detention facility somewhere in the Rio Grande valley of south Texas, adults and children alike were fainting from dehydration and lack of food. Sleep was almost impossible; the lights were left on, they had just a thin metallic sheet to protect against the cold and there was nothing to lie down on but the hard floor.
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