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Immigration

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)
Politics & Policy

‘Old Farts’ group protest results in arrest of six at ICE in Philadelphia

A group of elderly protestors blocked the ICE office in Philadelphia this morning. A half dozen decided to be arrested instead of moving.

8 years ago

Alma, 11, and Yaretzy, 11, made bookmarks at Mighty Writers El Futuro in South Philadelphia Thursday. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

As immigration debate boils, Philly nonprofit sends books to detention center

With the help of a $3,000 grant, Mighty Writers is giving more than a hundred books to migrant children at the Berks County Residential Center.

8 years ago

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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)
Community

As federal court mandates migrant family reunification, Pa. lawyer questions process

For children under 5, the court has ordered reunification within 14 days. How to do so remains a mystery, says a Pennsylvania attorney representing 11 of the migrant kids.

8 years ago

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner discusses his office's policy on unauthorized immigrants victimized by crime.
Courts & Law

Philly DA vows to protect unauthorized immigrants victimized by crime

Larry Krasner's pledge is in response to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions saying that fleeing gangs or domestic violence no longer qualifies as cause for seeking asylum.

8 years ago

About 100 newly arrived immigrants listen to a volunteer walk them through the process to seek asylum at a Catholic Charities respite center in McAllen, Texas. (Mose Buchele/KUT)
NPR
Community

Some migrant parents agreeing to self-deport to reunite with children

"They were just so desperate to get back with their kids that they're opting to go this route."

8 years ago

A protester holds a sign outside a closed gate at the Port of Entry facility, last week in Fabens, Texas, where tent shelters are being used to house separated family members.
NPR
Courts & Law

Judge bars migrant family separations, orders return of children within 30 days

The order, which came down late Tuesday, is the result of an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit.

8 years ago

Demonstrators at a rally in Washington, D.C., protest the Trump administration's proposed travel ban, which goes before the Supreme Court Wednesday.
Courts & Law

Sen. Chris Coons says Supreme Court ruling doesn’t reflect U.S. values

Coons, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, will introduce legislation to make clear that the U.S. does 'not tolerate discrimination based on religion or nationality.'

8 years ago

Visitors depart the Supreme Court early Monday, June 25, 2018. The justices upheld the Trump administration's travel ban on Tuesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Courts & Law

Court upholds Trump travel ban, rejects discrimination claim

The 5-4 decision Tuesday is the court's first substantive ruling on a Trump administration policy.

8 years ago

A mother migrating from Honduras holds her 1-year-old child as surrendering to U.S. Border Patrol agents after illegally crossing the border Monday, June 25, 2018, near McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Courts & Law

Authorities abandon effort to prosecute immigrant families

The nation's top border enforcement official acknowledged they have abandoned their effort to prosecute immigrant families who cross the southern border.

8 years ago

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.

8 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.

8 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.

8 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."

8 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.

8 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.

8 years ago

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