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Immigration

Journalist Emilio Gutiérrez Soto was released from his second detention in El Paso, Texas last week, just hours before a federal judge's deadline for the government to produce documents justifying the detention. (Monica Ortiz Uribe for NPR)
NPR
Courts & Law

Mexican Journalist released, awaits asylum appeal

ICE didn't respond to NPR's inquiry about why Gutiérrez's name appeared on the fugitive target list months before his asylum request was denied.

7 years ago

A senior citizen's group called The Old Farts were arrested in front of Philadelphia’s ICE headquarters Friday morning in protest of the Trump administration’s family separation policy. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

U.S. appeals court: Trump ‘sanctuary cities’ order is illegal

In a 2-1 ruling, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that the order exceeded the president's authority.

7 years ago

In this May 24, 2018, file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Republican chairman and top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee want federal investigators to examine charges that immigrants have suffered sexual, physical and emotional abuse at two government agencies’ detention centers. Grassley of Iowa and California’s Dianne Feinstein have written to the inspectors general of the departments of Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services, that the allegations are “extremely disturbing and must be addressed. This is not a partisan issue. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Politics & Policy

Official says agency warned family separation bad for kids

A Department of Health and Human Services official told senators that his agency had warned the administration that separating families would be dangerous for children.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump meets with Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, July 30, 2018, in Washington.
Politics & Policy

Watch: President Trump holds press conference with Italian prime minister

Updated 2:57 p.m. — President Donald Trump said Monday he would have “no problem” shutting d ...

7 years ago

In Germany, very few police departments have tried to diverse their officers by recruiting more people with a
NPR
Courts & Law

For local cops in Germany, no talk of ‘sanctuary cities’

Unlike in the U.S., asylum claims in Germany are handled by state-level authorities — and when someone is ordered deported, enforcement usually falls to local police.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks about immigration alongside family members affected by crime committed by undocumented immigrants, at the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex, Friday, June 22, 2018, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Trump willing to shut down government over border security

Donald Trump said Sunday that he would consider shutting down the government if Democrats refuse to vote for his immigration proposals, including a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

7 years ago

Health

Child victims of toxic stress face a long road to healing

Reuniting families separated at the U.S. border is only a start.

7 years ago

NewsWorks Tonight
Community

NewsWorks Tonight, July 27, 2018

Philadelphia ends a controversial contact with ICE. A family’s long fight to keep a natural gas pipeline off of their land. Analyst ...

Air Date: July 27, 2018

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A plaque marks the U.S. border on the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry bridge which connects the U.S. and Mexico on July 23, 2018. As many as 2,551 migrant children ages 5 to 17 were separated from their families after they crossed into the U.S. from Mexico along the border. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Judge to appoint special monitor to oversee detention facilities

The parties have until Aug. 10 to agree on a proposed monitor.

7 years ago

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announces a coming end to the city's data-sharing contract with ICE (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Community

Kenney ends Philly police data-sharing deal with ICE to protect immigrants

Protesters at City Hall have been calling for an end to the agreement that can put immigrants at risk of deportation for weeks.

7 years ago

Listen 2:33
The U.S. released journalist Emilio Gutierrez and his son on Thursday, after the second months-long detention. Seen here in 2011, Gutierrez has been seeking asylum in the U.S. since fleeing Mexico's drug violence in 2008. (Jose Luis Gonzalez /Reuters)
NPR
Community

U.S. releases Mexican journalist after a 2nd 7-month detention

Gutierrez and his son were arrested last December, two months after the National Press Club recognized the journalist with its Press Freedom Award.

7 years ago

Rep. Grace Meng, D-N.Y. (center) held a press conference earlier this month outside Manhattan federal court with Liz OuYang (left) of the New York Immigration Coalition and other critics of the new citizenship question on the 2020 census. (Hansi Lo Wang/NPR)
NPR
Courts & Law

Multi-state lawsuit against census citizenship question to move ahead

7 years ago

All day, unmarked white vans and chartered buses carrying the migrant children released from shelters across the country roll into the parking lot of the Port Isabel Detention Center in south Texas. (David J. Phillip/AP)
NPR
Community

Under deadline, government scrambles to reunite migrant families

The U.S. government is racing to meet Thursday's court-ordered deadline.

7 years ago

A Brazilian mother, who asked to be identified only as W.R., was reunified with with her 9-year-old son A.R. in Boston on July 16.
NPR
Courts & Law

Government unable to track hundreds of parents it separated from their children

As many as 463 parents may have been deported or have voluntarily left the U.S. without their children

7 years ago

Protesters rally at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office at 8th and Cherry streets after a rally in Philadelphia on June 30. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Courts & Law

ICE contracts with local governments can be ended quickly

Typically, all it takes is 30 to 120 days notice to terminate these agreements. ICE's contract with Philadelphia can be called off with just 30 days notice.

7 years ago

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