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Immigration

President Donald Trump speaks about border security in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, March 15, 2019, in Washington. Trump issued the first veto of his presidency, overruling Congress to protect his emergency declaration for border wall funding. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump vetoes Congressional effort to limit border wall funding

President Trump used his veto pen for the first time Friday, after Congress tried to reverse his national emergency declaration and rein in spending on a border wall.

6 years ago

President Trump said Thursday he would
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump vows veto after Congress blocks his order to build border wall

Shortly after the vote, President Trump tweeted, "VETO!" Neither chamber mustered the two-thirds support required to override a presidential veto.

6 years ago

This March 12, 2019, photo shows the Metropolitan Detention Center of Bernalillo County outside of Albuquerque, N.M. The has come under criticism after it was revealed late last month that its records department was allowing federal immigration authorities to access its inmate database. (Russell Contreras/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

U.S. immigration agents find ways around ‘sanctuary’ policies

Unofficial cooperation has granted immigration authorities access to databases and, in some cases, people are tipping them off when a person of interest is being released.

6 years ago

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on Tuesday the agency is seeking to close all of its foreign field offices around the world, a move introduced by Director L. Francis Cissna. (Alex Brandon/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump administration seeks to close international immigration offices

The Trump administration is seeking to close nearly two dozen U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field offices around the world.

6 years ago

In this March 6, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. The federal budget deficit is ballooning on Trump’s watch and few in Washington seem to care. And the political dynamics that enabled bipartisan deficit-cutting deals decades ago has disappeared. That’s the reality that will greet Trump’s latest budget, which probably will promptly be shelved after it’s received by Congress on Monday. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Trump expected to seek $8.6B for border wall in new budget

President Donald Trump will seek $8.6 billion in his new budget to build the U.S.-Mexico border wall, two administration officials said Sunday.

6 years ago

A migrant and his children wait to hear if their number is called to apply for asylum in the United States, at the border in Tijuana, Mexico. (Gregory Bull/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Asylum-seekers can appeal fast-track deportations, court rules

A federal court made it harder Thursday for the U.S. government to quickly deport asylum-seekers if they fail an initial screening at the border.

6 years ago

Honduran migrants react as they surrender to the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the border wall into the United States. According to new federal data, the number of migrants apprehended crossing the border in recent months has surged.
(Ramon Espinosa/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Migrant families arrive in busloads as border crossings hit 10-year high

The U.S. Border Patrol apprehended more than 66,000 migrants at the Southern border in February, the highest total for a single month in almost a decade.

6 years ago

At a public forum at VietAID in Dorchester, Mass., Vietnamese immigrants learn more about changes to immigration policies under President Trump. (Shannon Dooling/WBUR)
NPR
Politics & Policy

40 years after the Vietnam War, some refugees face deportation under Trump

More than 40 years after the Vietnam War brought expatriates to the U.S., the White House wants to deport thousands of Vietnamese immigrants because of years-old convictions.

6 years ago

In this file photo, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is brought up on stage by President Donald Trump as he takes the stage at a rally at Alumni Coliseum in Richmond, Ky., Saturday, Oct. 13, 2018. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Senate seems to have votes to reject Trump’s wall move

Opponents appear to have enough Senate votes to reject his move, now that Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky has said he can't go along with the White House.

6 years ago

In this Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018 file photo, authorities present confiscated passports and identification cards (Petros Giannakouris/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Feds: Philadelphia attorney helped immigrants fake stories to apply for green cards

Andrea W. Clarke faces six counts of fraud as well as charges of making false statements to help immigrants use fake stories to apply for green cards.

7 years ago

U.S. Attorney William McSwain
Courts & Law

Philly’s U.S. Attorney: Rape case shows ‘sanctuary city’ policy is ‘threat to public safety’

U.S. District Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro ruled that Vasquez will serve the illegal re-entry and sexual assault sentencings consecutively.

7 years ago

Migrant teens walk in a line at a shelter for unaccompanied children, on Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. (Brynn Anderson/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

Nearly 6,000 abuse complaints at migrant children shelters

Thousands of accusations of sexual abuse and harassment of migrant children in government-funded shelters were made over the past four years.

7 years ago

Elad Dvash-Banks (left) and his husband, Andrew, pose for photos with their twin sons, Ethan (center right), and Aiden in their apartment last year in Los Angeles. (Jae C. Hong/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Judge rules against State Department in same-sex couple’s citizenship lawsuit

Andrew and Elad Dvash-Banks have twin sons, born four minutes apart. The U.S. State Department has maintained that one is a U.S. citizen and one is not.

7 years ago

Children line up to enter a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children. Once youth turn 18, they are aged out of the children's shelter and are at risk of being placed in an adult detention facility.
(Wilfredo Lee/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Migrant youth go from children’s shelter to adult detention on their 18th birthday

When children cross the border without their parents, they're sent to federal shelters until caseworkers can find them a home. But everything changes when they turn 18.

7 years ago

Border Patrol agent Vincent Pirro walks towards prototypes for a border wall Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, in San Diego. President Donald Trump is expected to speak about funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border during his State of the Union address Tuesday. (Gregory Bull/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

N.J., Del. among states claiming hardship over wall funds. Can they prove it?

The Trump administration's decision to use emergency powers to secure funds for a border wall has drawn a legal challenge from 16 states, including New Jersey and Delaware.

7 years ago

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