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Immigration

Protesters gathered in the Capitol to call on Wolf for further action. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Activists renew call to shut down Berks immigrant detention center

Pennsylvania DHS already declined to renew the center's federal license, but a federal judge ordered it reinstated.

8 years ago

A woman packs crates at a  weekly free food pantry in the Bronx in New York City. The Trump administration is considering penalizing legal immigrants for using government benefits such as Medicaid and food stamps
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump administration moves to penalize immigrants for using government benefits

For months, the Trump administration has been taking steps to limit how much immigrants use welfare programs.

8 years ago

About 2,000 union members rally at the Great Plaza at Penn's Landing to protest the separation of immigrant families.
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

In Philly, union members protest immigration policy

Thousands of union leaders and member rally at Penn's Landing to oppose ICE policies

8 years ago

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Two Guatemalan families were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border earlier this year. The children remain in the U.S. while the fathers have already been deported.
(Claire Harbage/NPR)
NPR
Courts & Law

Deported parents describe agonizing wait to be reunited with their children

The last time Pablo saw his son was in Texas.

8 years ago

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, pictured in 2008, has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting immigrants under new rules that largely bar asylum in domestic and gang violence cases.
(Charles Dharapak/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Deported asylum-seekers brought back on angry judge’s orders

A federal judge has threatened to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen in contempt of court.

8 years ago

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers the keynote address during the General Assembly of the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Philadelphia. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Courts & Law

Immigration judges accuse DOJ of undermining independence

No one was immediately available to comment at the Justice Department.

8 years ago

Alderman James Cappleman holds his CityKey ID card, Friday, June 8, 2018, in Chicago. The city of Chicago is sending out staffers into various communities to get the municipal ID cards into the hands of undocumented immigrants, homeless people, senior citizens and others who often find it hard to obtain a valid form of identification. Officials hope that in a couple of years more than 100,000 Chicago residents will have the cards that can be used to register to vote and do things like check out a book from the library. (AP Photo/Annie Rice)
Politics & Policy

Philadelphia set to roll out municipal IDs in January

Many populations in the city are unable to access services because they lack the proper identification. Issuing municipal IDs is expected to solve that problem.

8 years ago

President Trump in January 2018. On Friday, a federal judge ruled the administration has not provided adequate justification for ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. (Evan Vucci/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Judge orders Trump administration to fully restore DACA

The administration has 20 days to appeal, before immigrant protections are reinstated.

8 years ago

Natalia Oliveira da Silva and her daughter, Sara, 5, hug at a Catholic Charities facility in San Antonio, TX. They were separated in late May. (Eric Gay/AP)
NPR
Courts & Law

Government, immigration advocates continue court clash over family reunification

New court filings released late Thursday indicate that the Department of Justice and immigration advocates are still far apart in working out a process for reuniting families.

8 years ago

Shoes and a teddy bear, brought by a group of U.S. mayors, are piled up outside a holding facility for immigrant children in Tornillo, Texas, near the Mexican border, Thursday, June 21, 2018.  Mayors from more than a dozen U.S. cities including New York and Los Angeles gathered near the holding facility to call for the immediate reunification of immigrant children with their families.  (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Migrant child separation update

Guest: Julián Aguilar In this segment, we’re going to focus to the ongoing crisis surroun ...

Air Date: August 3, 2018 10:20 am

Listen 18:31
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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 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 ...

8 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.

8 years ago

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