A group of national and local women’s rights advocates are calling for greater oversight in Arizona’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities. The National Organization for Women, along with previously detained women, legal advocates, social service providers, and Arizona Democratic State Senator Victoria Steele, convened at the state Capitol on …
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More than 6,100 unaccompanied refugee and migrant children in Italy in need of community and family-based care
ROME, 5 December 2019 – Approximately 94 per cent of all unaccompanied and separated refugee and migrant children currently in Italy, 6,172 children under 18, are living in reception centres, often isolated and cut off from opportunities to build their future, said UNICEF today. The agency urged authorities to increase community …
Read More »The new family separation: Migrant parents stranded on border send kids across alone – The San Diego Union
When 10-year-old Honduran asylum seeker Jose Lopez approached U.S. customs officers on the border bridge between Matamoros and Brownsville this month, they allowed him to enter Texas as an unaccompanied minor. In fact, Jose had arrived at the border with his father Aug. 18 and requested asylum, but both of …
Read More »The new family separation: Migrant parents stranded on border send kids across alone
When 10-year-old Honduran asylum seeker Jose Lopez approached U.S. customs officers on the border bridge between Matamoros and Brownsville this month, they allowed him to enter Texas as an unaccompanied minor. In fact, Jose had arrived at the border with his father Aug. 18 and requested asylum, but both of …
Read More »Family separations: U.S. planned to separate more than 26,000 migrant children from their families before outcry over “zero tolerance” policy
The Trump administration planned to separate tens of thousands of migrant children from their parents in the span of five months before it was forced to end its “zero tolerance” crackdown along the southern border due to public outcry and a court ruling. In early May of 2018, the month …
Read More »Trump admin projected it would separate 26,000 migrant kids at border, DHS watchdog says
WASHINGTON — The internal watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security found that the Trump administration anticipated it would separate 26,000 children if the “zero tolerance” policy of 2018 had been allowed to continue, and that the agency knew it lacked the technology to track and reunite children with their …
Read More »After child deaths, doctors push to administer flu vaccines at border
Doctors are pressuring U.S. Customs and Border Protection to allow them to vaccinate detained migrant children against the flu after several died of the disease in federal custody during the past year. The agency has yet to respond to an offer this week to vaccinate 100 migrant parents and children …
Read More »Families of Vietnamese missing in UK stuck with crippling migrant loans
They borrowed thousands of dollars to fund their children‘s illegal trips to Europe, and now the Vietnamese parents of missing migrants feared dead in Britain have no idea how to pay off the crippling loans. Their kids planned to send back money after getting hoped-for jobs in the UK, where …
Read More »Israel arrests family of Indian migrant workers, including Israeli-born children, ahead of deportation
A family of Indian nationals residing in Israel as migrant workers, including their Israeli-born children, were arrested by inspectors from Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority on Thursday morning ahead of their planned deportation. Immigration Authority inspectors had broken into the home of the Lopez family in south Tel Aviv early …
Read More »Families of Vietnamese missing in UK stuck with crippling migrant loans
In Vietnam‘s Nghe An province, where many of the missing migrants come from, per capita annual income is just $1,200, prompting many to borrow money to send family members abroad in search of work. HA TINH, Vietham: They borrowed thousands of dollars to fund their children‘s illegal trips to Europe, …
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