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Immigration

The Social Security Administration is reviving a practice from a decade ago of sending letters out to employers when Social Security numbers don't match their records. (Patrick Semansky/AP)
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Community

Social Security revives ‘no match’ letters amid broader immigration crackdown

Immigration authorities said employers should look at these letters as evidence that their employees are undocumented.

7 years ago

Marion Johnson, active in the community for close to 40 years, goes in a head to head with a representative of VisionQuest during a community gathering hosted by Councilwoman Cherelle Parker, on Thursday. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Community

North Philly neighbors decry plans for immigrant youth shelter, citing track record

VisionQuest wants to open a 60-bed facility for unaccompanied immigrant youth in North Philadelphia's Logan neighborhood.

7 years ago

A Border Patrol agent checks the names and documents of families who crossed the nearby U.S.-Mexico border near McAllen, Texas. Immigration authorities say they expect the continuing surge of Central American families crossing the border to multiply in the coming months. (Eric Gay/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Immigration system at the ‘breaking point,’ Homeland Security official warns

A flood of migrant families arriving at the southern border is straining the U.S. immigration system. Authorities say daily apprehensions are at the highest in decades.

7 years ago

Caleb Arnold is immigration counsel for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

A different view of justice: Philly DA appointee seeks to avoid deportation for some immigrant defendants

The process involves tough calls on criminal cases involving immigrant defendants — and pits different, politicized definitions of justice against each other.

7 years ago

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President Donald Trump signs the first veto of his presidency in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, March 15, 2019, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

House fails to override Trump veto of his border emergency

The House fell short Tuesday in its effort to override President Donald Trump's first veto, handing him a victory to spend billions to construct barriers along the border.

7 years ago

Salvadoran migrants wait for transportation after turning themselves in to U.S. Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas — where a border fence is under construction. The Pentagon says it will spend up to $1 billion to help build the fence. (Paul Ratje /AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Money

Pentagon takes $1 billion from military personnel account to build border fence

The Department of Defense is shifting $1 billion from a military personnel account to build a 57-mile fence at the southern U.S. border.

7 years ago

A line of migrants released by U.S. immigration authorities waits to check in at the Catholic Charities shelter in McAllen, Texas on Jan. 11. (Eric Gay/AP Photo)
NPR
Courts & Law

Border Patrol starts releasing asylum-seeking migrants to South Texas streets

U.S. Border Patrol is releasing asylum-seeking migrants who were recently apprehended without detaining them because officials say detention facilities are full to capacity.

7 years ago

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington where the justices ruled that the government can detain certain immigrants without bond hearings. (Susan Walsh/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Supreme Court broadens the government’s power to detain criminal immigrants

The U.S. Supreme Court, ruled Tuesday that the government may detain, without a hearing, legal immigrants long after they have served the sentences for crimes they committed.

7 years ago

In this March 5, 2019, image, Ruth Aracely Monroy, (center), looks out of the family's tent alongside her 10-month-old son, Joshua, as her husband, Juan Carlos Perla, (left), passes inside a shelter for migrants in Tijuana, Mexico. (Gregory Bull/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Asylum seeker abandons U.S. plans in face of new policy

The administration expanded its "Migrant Protection Protocols" strategy on Monday to a second border crossing and officials say the practice will grow along the entire border.

7 years ago

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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 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.

7 years ago

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