Tag Archives: Migrant

While the Trump administration has discontinued its policy that resulted in thousands of migrant families split up at the border, U.S. officials continue to grapple with a crush of family crossings every month and dozens of children who the government says must be separated for health and safety concerns. Department …

A 16-year-old boy apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol was “found unresponsive” Monday morning in the facility where he was being held, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. A Border Patrol official said Monday afternoon that the boy, Carlos Hernandez Vásquez, died hours after a nurse at a Border Patrol …

HOUSTON — A 2½-year-old Guatemalan child has died after crossing the border, becoming the fourth minor known to have died after being detained by the Border Patrol since December and raising new alarms about the treatment of migrant families seeking asylum in the United States. The boy died Tuesday after …

UC Merced UC Merced student gets big reaction to migrant parents post On Sunday, UC Merced student Anna Ocegueda will become the first person from her family to graduate from a four-year university. Ocegueda, 22, wanted to pay tribute to her parents and acknowledge her roots with a photo she …

Sen. Lindsey Graham is introducing a new bill that he says will help stop the flow of immigrants from Central America and “regain control of our border.” Graham claimed that current caps in law have led to the escalation of immigrants traveling to the border as well as those in …

WATERVILLE — On Mother’s Day in central Maine this year, local activists will hold a rally to protest national policies regarding immigration along the southern border of the United States. Central Mainers for Change will hold a “Mother’s Day Rally to End Family Separation and Child Detention” from noon to …

WATERVILLE — On Mother’s Day in central Maine this year, local activists will hold a rally to protest national policies regarding immigration along the southern border of the United States. Central Mainers for Change will hold a “Mother’s Day Rally to End Family Separation and Child Detention” from noon to …

DONNA, Texas — Thousands of migrant families and children apprehended crossing the U.S. border alone in the Lower Rio Grande Valley will spend their first night in America in a vast air conditioned tent complex with access to showers, hot meals and cots to sleep on. The massive 40,000-square-foot white vinyl tent …

COMMENT Last November, I commented in the Mail Guardian on the contradictory laws in South Africa that discriminate against children of immigrants.There are now signs of change, with a letter issued to the African Diaspora Forum (ADF) from the minister of basic education, Angie Motshekga, announcing that “as an interim measure” …

Palantir, the CIA-funded data analysis company founded by billionaire Trump adviser Peter Thiel, provided software at the center of a 2017 operation targeting unaccompanied children and their families, newly released Homeland Security documents show. The documents undercut prior statements from Palantir, in which the company tried to draw a clean …