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Immigration

FILE - Migrants wait to be processed by the Border Patrol after illegally crossing the Rio Grande River from Mexico into the United States at Eagle Pass, Texas, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022. Venezuelans have surpassed Guatemalans and Hondurans to become the second-largest nationality stopped at the U.S. border in August 2022 after Mexicans. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

The politics of immigration reform

Record numbers of migrants are arriving at the southern border. Republican lawmakers are relocating some to Democratic states. Today - the politics of immigration.

Air Date: September 23, 2022 10:00 am

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FILE - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis listens to a question during a press conference Sept. 7, 2022, in Miami, Fla. The Republican governors of Florida and Texas have delivered migrants on planes and buses to Washington, D.C., New York City and even Martha's Vineyard, but they may just be getting started. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
Courts & Law

Migrants sue Florida governor over Martha’s Vineyard flights

The lawsuit alleges that the migrants were told they were going to Boston or Washington, “which was completely false," and were induced with perks.

4 years ago

Delaware Coastal Airport in Georgetown, Sussex county. (Delaware Coastal Airport)
Community

Delaware preps for possible migrant flights to Georgetown

State leaders coordinated with nonprofit groups Tuesday, preparing to help potential arrivals as southern governors say they’ll send migrants to Delaware.

4 years ago

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' flight that took 50 migrants to Martha's Vineyard, Mass., is being investigated by the Bexar County Sheriff's Office in Texas. The migrants were flown from Texas to Florida and then on to Martha's Vineyard. Here, DeSantis speaks at a rally on Aug. 19 in Pittsburgh. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

A Texas sheriff will investigate DeSantis’ flight of migrants to Martha’s Vineyard

Authorities in Texas have opened a criminal investigation into Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' flight last week that took roughly 50 Venezuelan migrants to Martha's Vineyard, Mass.

4 years ago

Marthas Vineyard residents line up in front of St. Andrews Parish House to donate food to the recently arrived migrants. Two planes of migrants from Venezuela arrived suddenly Wednesday night on Martha's Vineyard.
Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
NPR
Politics & Policy

Migrants sent to Martha’s Vineyard are being rehoused on a base in Cape Cod

The immigrants who were sent from Texas to Martha's Vineyard by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will now be housed in Joint Base Cape Cod.

4 years ago

A group of migrants arriving in New York City are shown from behind as they look out on a city street.
NPR
Community

Texas sends migrants to New York. They get a warm welcome, but life there is tough

As Texas Gov. Greg Abbott sends more migrants via bus from the Mexico border, volunteers, city officials, and migrants in New York City are forced to adapt.

4 years ago

File photo: The Supreme Court is seen at sundown in Washington, on Nov. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Courts & Law

Supreme Court won’t let Biden implement immigration policy

The court’s order Thursday leaves the policy frozen nationwide for now.

4 years ago

A person sprays something from a hose while preparing fresh bedding.
NPR
Politics & Policy

The Senate is nearing a deal on immigration that could also lower food prices

Two Senators are closer then ever before on an immigration-related bill that would provide a much-needed workforce for agriculture. But can they get the Farm Bureau on board?

4 years ago

File photo: Mounted U.S. Border Patrol agents attempt to contain migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas, Sept. 19, 2021.(AP Photo/Felix Marquez, File)
Politics & Policy

Report finds ‘unnecessary’ force by agents at Rio Grande

In the report, Customs and Border Protection blamed a “lack of command control and communication” for mounted agents using their horses to forcibly block and move migrants.

4 years ago

Demonstrators hold up signs outside the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals building in New Orleans on Wednesday, July 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Kevin McGill)
Courts & Law

Appeals arguments heard on immigrants brought to U.S. as kids

Advocates are hoping a federal appeals court will uphold an Obama-era program that prevents the deportation of thousands of immigrants brought into the United States as kids.

4 years ago

A woman cries as she is embraced by another person.
Community

Migrants in Texas trailer tragedy died seeking better lives

Families of the more than 60 people packed into a tractor-trailer and abandoned in Texas have began to confirm their worst fears.

4 years ago

Supreme Court
Courts & Law

Supreme Court: Biden properly ended Trump-era asylum policy

The justices' 5-4 decision for the administration came in a case about the “Remain in Mexico” policy under President Donald Trump.

4 years ago

Roberto Marquez of Dallas adds a flower a makeshift memorial at the site where officials found dozens of people dead in an abandoned semitrailer containing suspected migrants, Wednesday, June 29, 2022, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Courts & Law

Toll now at 53 in San Antonio as families wait for answers

The driver and two other men from Mexico remained in custody Wednesday.

4 years ago

Body bags lie at the scene where a tractor trailer with multiple dead bodies was discovered, Monday, June 27, 2022, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Community

46 migrants found dead in abandoned trailer in San Antonio

It’s among the deadliest of the tragedies that have claimed thousands of lives in recent decades as people attempt to cross the U.S. border from Mexico.

4 years ago

A councilmember speaks in front of a crowd of people in New York City.
Courts & Law

Judge says NYC can’t let noncitizens vote in city elections

A judge has blocked New York City from letting noncitizens vote for mayor and other municipal offices.

4 years ago

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