Washington (CNN)The Department of Health and Human Services received more than 4,500 complaints of sexual abuse against unaccompanied minors from 2014-2018, according to internal agency documents released Tuesday by Florida Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch.In addition,1,303 complaints were reported to the…
AARP presents “Immigration Fraud Prevention,” a nationwide public service announcement produced by NextDayBetter in collaboration with the Asian American Bar Association of New York, the Filipino American Lawyers Association of New York, and the Asian American Bar Association of New…
Nearly 50 Democratic lawmakers called for a watchdog investigation of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday after the agency confirmed it had been force-feeding immigrant detainees on a hunger strike. Reporting by The Associated Press revealed late last month that nine…
LANSING — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has canceled the sale of a former state prison in Ionia for construction of a $35-million immigration detention center — a move drawing both praise and criticism. Whitmer nixed the sale of the former Deerfield Correctional Center…
President Trump is still pushing his proposal to fund a border wall in exchange for temporary protection for immigrants who came to the U.S. as children or to escape natural disasters, which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has already dismissed as…
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is undecided on whether he’ll support President Donald Trump’s new proposal to reach an immigration deal in exchange for $5.7 billion for his southern border wall. “He needs to see the final proposal before he decides,”…
Almost 1,200 immigration court hearings have been canceled in Chicago since the federal government shutdown started, and that number is expected to climb as the weeks go by. An analysis from Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse found that as of Jan.…
President Trump has shut down the government to get money for a border wall that he says will stop illegal immigration. But the fact of the matter is that that’s not all he wants to stop. During the three-day shutdown…
One of the absurd ironies of President Trump’s government shutdown, which is intended to extract money from Congress for a border wall, is that it has brought the nation’s immigration courts to a near-standstill. In his quest to erect a monument to…
If there is one thing worse than that photograph of a little Honduran boy breathing through an oxygen mask after being hit with tear gas on our Southern border, it’s this: Using that image as a sentimental weapon to fend…
