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Immigration

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.

8 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.

8 years ago

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NPR
Community

Video shows 6-year-old girl heard on ProPublica tape reunited with mother

On the original audiotape, Jimena repeatedly asked the adults around her to call her aunt.

8 years ago

In this June 13, 2018 file photo, Nicole Hernandez, of the Mexican state of Guerrero, holds on to her mother as they wait with other families to request political asylum in the United States, across the border in Tijuana, Mexico. he separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border caught the attention of the world and prompted mass outrage, but it only tells a small part of the story surrounding the Trump administration’s immigration policy. (Gregory Bull/AP Photo, file)
Politics & Policy

Border measures part of Trump’s bigger immigration crackdown

The separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border only tells a small part of the story surrounding the Trump administration's immigration policy.

8 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)
Politics & Policy

Push by liberal Democrats’ to abolish ICE delights GOP

Liberal Democrats have unveiled doomed legislation aimed at abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, their eyes focused on galvanizing voters for the midterm elections.

8 years ago

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Money

Detaining immigrant kids is now a billion-dollar industry

Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually — a tenfold increase over the past decade analysis finds.

8 years ago

A Central American child who is traveling with a caravan of migrants, peers at the border wall from a bus carrying the group to a gathering of migrants living on both sides of the border, in Tijuana, Mexico, on April 29. (AP Photo/Hans-Maximo Musielik)
Politics & Policy

New Jersey budget includes $2.1M for immigrants facing deportation

Some hope the funds will help immigrants in detention centers who are separated from their families and can’t afford to pay an attorney.

8 years ago

Demonstrators gathered last month outside a detention facility near El Paso, Texas, to protest the Trump administration's
NPR
Politics & Policy

Majority of youngest migrants reunited with parents, Trump administration says

Two days after its original deadline, the Trump administration said it has complied with a court order to return nearly 3,000 migrant children separated from their parents.

8 years ago

In 2011, immigration advocates protested outside the Essex County Correctional Facility, which has one of the most lucrative contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the country. (Mel Evans/AP Photo )
WNYC
NewsWorks Tonight
Money

Under Trump, Democratic New Jersey counties cash in on detaining immigrants

From January 2015 to March 2018 the amount of ICE money sent to Bergen, Essex and Hudson Counties increased 46 percent, amounting to more than $150 million.

8 years ago

Immigration policy protesters have moved from the ICE building at Eighth and Cherry streets to City Hall. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Immigration updates

Guests: Juliana Reyes, Maria Sacchetti, Ronit Stahl Last week, protesters called “Occupy I.C.E.” set up an en ...

Air Date: July 11, 2018 10:00 am

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New Jersey Democrat Donald Norcross (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Norcross calls for immigration deal in wake of visit to displaced minors

Workers at the facility run by the Center for Family Services are doing a good job in caring for the migrant children, congressman says

8 years ago

Dozens of migrant women and their children arrive at a bus station in McAllen, Texas, following their release by Customs and Border Protection last month. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NPR
Courts & Law

Judge rejects Trump administration’s bid to detain migrant children indefinitely

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee rejected the request for "limited relief" from the settlement, often known as the Flores agreement.

8 years ago

Immigration policy protesters have camped out at City Hall and are calling on Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney to end a contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that gives the agency access to a real-time arrest database. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Kenney meets with advocates as Abolish ICE protests mark one week

For about 90 minutes, Kenney listened to the group air their grievances about ICE and the agency’s alleged misuse of the Preliminary Arraignment Reporting System or PARS.

8 years ago

This photo provided to the AP by Panshu Zhao shows Zhao in uniform on Feb. 11, at a U.S. Army Reserve installation in Houston. Zhao is one of dozens of immigrant military recruits and reservists who have been waiting for years to deploy but were recently discharged with little explanatio
NPR
Politics & Policy

U.S. Army is discharging immigrant recruits who were promised citizenship

"This is a whole disaster," Zhao told NPR.

8 years ago

Immigrants recently processed 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)
Courts & Law

U.S. says it will release, reunite 50 immigrant children

At least 50 immigrant children under age 5 will be released with their parents by Tuesday's deadline for the Trump administration to reunify families forcibly separated.

8 years ago

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