In a federal courtroom in Texas today, the debate over the Trump administration’s immigration policies shifted from separated families to another group of young immigrants. They are the ones who were brought to the United States as children and grew…
HOUSTON — Sendy Karina Ferrera Amaya clutched a stuffed unicorn outside the airport arrival gate Saturday morning, as her fiancé Juan Barrera Bucio paced back and forth. He spotted the baby first. “There’s someone coming with a little girl,” he…
Immigration judges work for a tiny agency within the U.S. Department of Justice. There are just 334 of them to manage a backlog of 733,000 cases nationally. New cases are constantly coming, as demonstrated by the recent surge in migration…
A migrant child placed in a South Texas immigration detention center under the president’s “zero-tolerance” policy died after contracting a disease from another detainee, according to a lawyer’s claim, which officials have denied. Mana Yegani, a Houston-based immigration attorney, posted…
She’d been bracing for the bad news. It landed last month. U.S. Army Specialist Yea Ji Sea, a medic at the Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in Texas, was called into her commander’s office. The senior officer…
Politicians from both parties agree that President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy that separated thousands of families along the southern border was a failure. Now legislators are grappling with a far more difficult question: what comes next? Trump formally ended…
A group of 36 people have filed the first legal challenge to the Trump administration’s travel ban after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld it in June. Muslim Advocates, Lotfi Legal LLC, the Immigrant Advocacy & Litigation Center PLLC, and Public…
A fundamental right of U.S. citizenship is having your voice heard by voting to elect representatives. However, at least 6 million U.S. citizens cannot vote in the United States because they have been convicted of a felony. Losing the right…
Parents reunited with young children are reporting mental health issues. One 5-year-old boy has started a new life with his mother in Philadelphia, but signs of trauma remain. PHILADELPHIA — Before they were separated at the southwest border, Ana Carolina…
U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder has stumbled into a messy argument over immigration, making just about everyone mad. First, Yoder was for separating immigrant families at the border. Then he was against it. This month, he found money for 200 miles…