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Immigration

The Pentagon plans to build temporary camps for detained immigrants. Here, children of detained migrants are seen at a tent encampment near the U.S. Customs and Border Protection port of entry in Tornillo, Texas. (Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Pentagon will build 2 more temporary camps to house migrants, Mattis says

The defense chief did not give details about the locations of the bases that would contain the camps.

7 years ago

ICE officials
Keystone Crossroads
Community

A year after ICE arrests at Chesco mushroom farm, how many were actually deported?

Attorneys say arrests at or near workplaces are becoming more common in Pennsylvania, as the U.S. ramps enforcement of immigration laws.

7 years ago

Children and workers are seen at a tent encampment last week n Tornillo, Texas. The Trump administration was using the tent facility to house immigrant children separated from their parents. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Department of Homeland Security releases plan to reunify families

In a fact sheet issued on Saturday, it provided no timeline for when those reunifications will happen.

7 years ago

A young girl waits for care in a medical clinic. A growing number of citizen children of immigrant parents are losing out on Medicaid because their parents fear deportation. (Jonathan Kirn/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Fearing deportation, some immigrants opt out of health benefits for their kids

"They are asking a lot of questions," she says. "They are investigating one's life from head to toe."

7 years ago

The Casa Padre facility in Brownsville, Texas, is one of more than two dozen shelters for immigrant children operated by Southwest Key. (Department of Health and Human Services)
NPR
Community

A Latino nonprofit is holding separated kids. Is that care or complicity or both?

Much to its leaders' frustration, Southwest Key became the face of a Trump administration policy.

7 years ago

A 2-year-old Honduran girl cries as an official searches her mother in McAllen, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border, earlier this month. For many, the image has become indelibly associated with a Trump administration policy that for weeks separated migrant children from their parents — but the girl's father says she was not separated from her mother. (John Moore/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Crying toddler on widely shared ‘Time’ cover was not separated from mother

Nevertheless, Time's editor-in-chief said he stands by the decision to use the image on the magazine's cover.

7 years ago

Darwin Mejia, 7, saw his mother for the first time early Friday, reuniting with Beata Mariana de Jesus Mejia-Mejia at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport after they were separated at the border by U.S. agents (Patrick Semansky/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Mother and son reunite at airport; U.S. had split them because of migrant status

To gain their release from custody and last night's reunion, the woman sued the U.S. government.

7 years ago

Cars wait to enter Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, in 2014. The U.S. Army Base is one of four that likely will be tasked with housing immigrant children following a request Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services. (Juan Carlos Llorca/AP)
NPR
Community

Military asked to provide 20,000 beds for detained immigrant children

That bed space would be needed beginning in July and running through the end of the year.

7 years ago

Shapiro accused the Trump administration of
Courts & Law

Pa. AG Shapiro joins lawsuit against Trump admin over family separation

Aside from Pennsylvania, nine other states are involved, and more may join.

7 years ago

First lady Melania Trump walks through the facility after a round table discussion with doctors and social workers at the Upbring New Hope Childrens Center operated by Lutheran Social Services of the South on Thursday in McAllen, Texas. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

First Lady Melania Trump makes trip to visit border detention facilities

The first lady planned to visit two facilities, both in McAllen, Texas.

7 years ago

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is trying to unite his conference around a compromise immigration bill. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

House GOP leaders delay vote on compromise immigration bill

The vote on that bill is now scheduled for Friday morning.

7 years ago

A girl stands with her mother during a Rally For Our Children event to protest a new
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Family separations: the politics, the pushback, and the support

Guests: Adam Serwer, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Anil Kalhan President Trump felt the mounting public and political pres ...

Air Date: June 21, 2018 10:00 am

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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, left, listens to President Donald Trump, right, speaks to members of the media after Trump signed an executive order to end family separations, during an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 20, 2018.
Politics & Policy

Trump’s immigration order sparks confusion, deep concern

Despite the president's order, lawyer Peter Schey said he was concerned that several thousand children have already been separated from their parents without a clear plan.

7 years ago

Immigrant children walk in a line outside the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

As Trump ends family separation policy, children removed from their parents are already in Pa.

As Trump ends family separation policy, children removed from their parents are already in Pa.

7 years ago

Listen 2:44
Immigrants recently processes and released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection wait at the the Catholic Charities RGV, Wednesday, June 20, 2018, in McAllen, Texas. Nearly 2,000 children have been separated from their families at the U.S. border over a six-week period during a crackdown on illegal entries, according to Department of Homeland Security figures obtained Friday by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Politics & Policy

Family separation at the US-Mexico border: Candidates take on the issue

In Pennsylvania and New Jersey, candidates for the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have echoed one another’s condemnation of the policy.

7 years ago

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