October 21st, 20200NEW YORK — Lawyers and non-profit organizations seeking to reunite immigrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by the Trump administration have not been able to locate the parents of 545 children so far.
A federal judge ordered thousands of families separated at the border in 2017 and 2018 to be reunited after a 2018...
March 1st, 20190WASHINGTON, DC — Congressional efforts to end President Trump’s U.S.-Mexico border emergency declaration — an attempt by him to fund a border wall without approval from Congress — intensified on Thursday with the introduction of a bipartisan resolution to block him in the Senate.
The measure faces an uphill path to passage,...
December 1st, 20180WASHINGTON — The population of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. fell to 10.7 million in 2016, its lowest level since 2004, due largely to a decline in the number of people coming from Mexico, a study released on Tuesday said.
The report from the Pew Research Center, pewrsr.ch/2Qptbid, based on U.S. Census data and other figures...
October 26th, 20180WASHINGTON — The Trump administration may send up to 1,000 active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to stop a caravan of migrants, administration officials said on Thursday, as President Trump hammered away at the issue of illegal immigration ahead of the mid-term elections.
Trump’s threat was sparked by the advance of a...
September 17th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump’s administration has agreed to reconsider the asylum claims of some 1,000 immigrant parents and children who were separated at the U.S. border as part of a deal to settle lawsuits over his “zero-tolerance” immigration policy.
The settlement, detailed in court documents late on Wednesday,...
July 8th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tens of thousands of protesters marched in cities across the United States on Saturday to demand the Trump administration reverse an immigration crackdown that has separated children from parents at the U.S-Mexico border and led to plans for military-run detention camps.
Outside the White House,...
July 8th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. government is moving some immigrant parents to detention sites closer to the young children from whom they were separated while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border to meet a court-imposed deadline to reunify families, Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar said on Thursday.
last month, U.S. Judge...
June 25th, 20180WASHINGTON/MCALLEN, Texas —On Thursday, President Trump ordered federal agencies to begin reuniting immigrant families recently separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, but his efforts to roll back a policy that drew global condemnation were beset by confusion.
Despite Trump’s order, it remained unclear how and when more than 2,300...
