Asylum seekers attend border court amid outbreak

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — U.S. immigration courts sharply scaled back operations Monday but have stopped well short of a total shutdown demanded by employees, including judges and government attorneys. Wearing face masks, about 30 asylum seekers who had been waiting in Mexico were escorted by authorities into a federal building in El Paso, Texas,... Read More

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Asylum

March 13, 2020

Fleeing Maduro, Venezuelans find nightmare in Trump’s jails

MIAMI (AP) — When Jose Ramon Zambrano and his pregnant wife crossed the Rio Grande to apply for asylum in the U.S., they were looking for a fresh start far away from a certain arrest in his native Venezuela, where his mother is a prominent government opponent. Instead, he spent six months locked up in... Read More

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March 12, 2020

‘Remain in Mexico’ is just one US response to asylum-seekers

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to continue making asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for their U.S. court hearings. It may be the most far-reaching measure in a series of policies the government has put in place over the last year amid an unprecedented surge of asylum-seeking arriving at the... Read More

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Asylum

March 9, 2020

US sending military police to two border crossings

PHOENIX (AP) — The U.S. government says it is sending 160 military police and engineers to two official border crossings to deal with asylum seekers in case a federal appeals court strikes down one of the Trump administration’s key policies. Senior Customs and Border Protection officials said Friday that active duty personnel will be in... Read More

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March 5, 2020

Court blocks ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy on part of US border

SAN DIEGO (AP) — In the latest twist on a key Trump administration immigration policy, a federal appeals court said it will prevent the government from making asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for U.S. court hearings starting next week unless the Supreme Court steps in sooner. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco... Read More

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March 2, 2020

Court halts Trump asylum policy, then suspends its own order

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel voted unanimously Friday to suspend an order it issued earlier in the day to block a central pillar of the Trump administration’s policy requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. courts. The three-judge panel told the government... Read More

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Asylum

February 27, 2020

Court sides with Trump in ‘sanctuary cities’ grant fight

NEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration can withhold millions of dollars in law enforcement grants to force states to cooperate with U.S. immigration enforcement, a federal appeals court in New York ruled Wednesday in a decision that conflicted with three other federal appeals courts. The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals... Read More

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Sanctuary City

February 25, 2020

Crackdown on immigrants who use public benefits takes effect

PHOENIX (AP) — Pastor Antonio Velasquez says that before the Trump administration announced a crackdown on immigrants using government social services, people lined up before sunrise outside a state office in a largely Latino Phoenix neighborhood to sign up for food stamps and Medicaid. No more. “You had to arrive at 3 in the morning,... Read More

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February 24, 2020

San Diego sheriff agrees to share immigration information

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department will share records of people who were criminally arrested with immigration authorities, becoming the first local law enforcement agency in five states to comply with unusual demands for information, authorities said Friday. In recent weeks, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has issued ‘administrative subpoenas’ —... Read More

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Immigration

February 20, 2020

US judge sides with migrants in case against Border Patrol

PHOENIX (AP) — A U.S. judge in Arizona sided Wednesday with migrants who have long-complained about inhumane and unsanitary conditions in some U.S. Border Patrol facilities in the state. The ruling came weeks after the conclusion of a seven-day trial in which attorneys for migrants who sued in 2015 argued that the agency holds immigrants... Read More

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Immigration

February 19, 2020

US border clampdown forces Venezuelan teen into Mexico alone

HOUSTON (AP) — A Venezuelan teenager has been forced back to Mexico by U.S. government authorities who denied her claims that she was fleeing political repression and violence, even after they accepted the same claims from her father. The teenager, who is being identified by only her first name, Branyerly, is living alone in Matamoros,... Read More

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Branyerly

February 19, 2020

Immigration agency subpoenas Oregon county over 2 inmates

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement subpoenaed a sheriff’s office in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday for information about two Mexican citizens wanted for deportation, a move that is part of a broader escalation of the conflict between federal officials and local government agencies over so-called sanctuary policies. ICE, the... Read More

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Immigration

February 18, 2020

Agency memo contradicts Greyhound on bus raids

SEATTLE (AP) — A Customs and Border Protection memo obtained by The Associated Press confirms that bus companies such as Greyhound do not have to allow Border Patrol agents on board to conduct routine checks for immigrants in the country illegally, which is contrary to the company’s long insistence that it has no choice but... Read More

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Greyhound

February 13, 2020

Judge orders immigration detention hotline restored

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore a free hotline that let detained immigrants report concerns about custody conditions until shortly after it was featured on the TV show “Orange Is the New Black.” U.S. District Court Judge André Birotte Jr. on Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction ordering... Read More

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Immigration

Asylum seekers attend border court amid outbreak

Fleeing Maduro, Venezuelans find nightmare in Trump’s jails

‘Remain in Mexico’ is just one US response to asylum-seekers

US sending military police to two border crossings

Court blocks ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy on part of US border

Court halts Trump asylum policy, then suspends its own order

Court sides with Trump in ‘sanctuary cities’ grant fight

Crackdown on immigrants who use public benefits takes effect

San Diego sheriff agrees to share immigration information

US judge sides with migrants in case against Border Patrol

US border clampdown forces Venezuelan teen into Mexico alone

Immigration agency subpoenas Oregon county over 2 inmates

Agency memo contradicts Greyhound on bus raids

Judge orders immigration detention hotline restored

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