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Immigration

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

Sisters from Guatemala seeking asylum, cross a bridge to a port of entry in to the United States from Matamoros, Mexico, in Brownsville, Texas. (Eric Gay/AP)
NPR
Community

Denied asylum, but terrified to return home

Across the southwest border, immigration lawyers say they're seeing an alarming jump in the number of asylum-seekers turned away at the earliest stage of the process.

7 years ago

Javier Garrido Martinez holds his 4-year-old son after they were reunited on July 11, 2018, in New York. (Robert Bumsted/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

5 facts to know about migrant family reunification

Here are five questions about family reunification answered.

7 years ago

International law on refugees has its roots in the massive displacement that occurred in Europe during World War II. (Above) Belgian refugees fleeing after the German invasion of their country in 1940. (AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Amid migrant crises, nations flout international law on refugees

The so called "refugee convention" was hammered out after World War II and originally applied only to refugees from that conflict.

7 years ago

An immigrant wears an ankle monitor as he sits at a shelter in McAllen, Texas after he was released after processing by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. (Eric Gay/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

‘Alternatives to detention’ are cheaper than jails, but cases take far longer

More than 84,000 undocumented migrants are enrolled in electronic monitoring — usually either an ankle bracelet or a smartphone check-in that uses voice recognition.

7 years ago

People hold up signs July 16 in Washington, D.C., as they protest ICE. Getting rid of the agency has become a popular rallying cry among progressives, but the House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a symbolic measure voicing support for ICE. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Republicans force Democrats to go on record over immigration agency

Democrats largely avoided taking any position at all.

7 years ago

A mother migrating from Honduras holds her 1-year-old child as she surrenders to a U.S. Border Patrol agents after illegally crossing the border, near McAllen, Texas, in late June.
NPR
Politics & Policy

Lawsuit says migrants were subjected to dirty detention facilities, bad food and water

The group is demanding that the government meet minimum standard condition

7 years ago

Ever Reyes Mejia, of Honduras, carries his son to a vehicle after being reunited and released by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Grand Rapids, Mich. (Paul Sancya/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Judge halts family deportations for now

A federal judge in California has temporarily halted the deportation of immigrant families that have been reunited after being separated by the Trump administration.

7 years ago

A demonstrator is arrested at the Vigil to Shut Down Berks on the afternoon of July 15. Seventeen arrests were made after group blocked a road outside the detention facility in Leesport, Pa., which is used to house immigrant families who are fighting deportation.
Courts & Law

Berks County protests lead to arrests over detention center

Bern Township Police Chief Wesley Waugh said the 17 protesters were taken into custody after obstructing a nearby highway.

7 years ago

Puerto Rican evacuees Crisjoel Morales Monet, 17, and Judy Morales Monet, 16, are staying at the Holiday Inn Express in Center City with their mom and oldest brother Friday April 20th. They still don't know where to go next. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Community

National Puerto Rican group meets in Philly to plot the road ahead

The National Puerto Rican Agenda held their second convention at Taller Puertorriqueno in North Philly this weekend to think of ways to mobilize this diaspora.

7 years ago

A protester holds up a sign targeting Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff outside the company's headquarters in San Francisco on Monday.
(Laura Sydell/NPR)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Tech workers demand CEOs stop doing business with ICE, other U.S. agencies

Tech workers from Salesforce, Microsoft, Amazon and Google have been putting pressure on their CEOs to cut ties and end contracts with ICE.

7 years ago

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