Feds: No more education, legal services for immigrant kids

PHOENIX (AP) — The federal government has stopped paying for English-language courses and legal services at facilities that hold immigrant children around the country, imposing budget cuts it says are necessary at a time when record numbers of unaccompanied children are arriving at the border. The Health and Human Services department notified shelters around the... Read More

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Immigration

May 30, 2019

Trial begins for border activist who helped migrants

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A border activist being tried in a federal court for helping two migrants with water, food and lodging last year only intended “to provide basic human kindness,” his lawyer told jurors Wednesday. Defense attorney Greg Kuykendall also said in his opening statement that prosecutors must prove his client intended to break... Read More

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Border, Immigration

May 29, 2019

Arizona border activist to stand trial for helping migrants

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A federal trial is scheduled to begin in Tucson for a border activist charged with harboring migrants and conspiring to transport and harbor two Mexican men who were in the U.S. illegally. Scott Daniel Warren says his spiritual values compel him to help all people in distress. Prosecutors have argued the... Read More

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Border, Immigration

May 28, 2019

Judge blocks Trump from building sections of border wall

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump from building key sections of his border wall with money secured under his declaration of a national emergency, delivering what may prove a temporary setback on one of his highest priorities. U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr.’s order, issued Friday, prevents work from... Read More

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Border Wall

May 21, 2019

Texas man gets prison for smuggling immigrants in furniture

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A Houston-area man has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for trying to smuggle immigrants in furniture after three people were found in a plastic-wrapped dresser that was nailed shut. Federal prosecutors say 23-year-old Yabar Ayan Portes-Arevalo of Katy was sentenced Monday in Corpus Christi to 21 months.... Read More

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Yabar Ayan Portes-Arevalo

May 17, 2019

Courts weigh Trump’s plan to tap Pentagon for border wall

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — President Donald Trump is moving fast to spend billions of dollars to build a wall on the Mexican border with money secured under his declaration of a national emergency, but he first must get past the courts. On Friday, a federal judge in Oakland, California, will consider arguments in two cases... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

May 9, 2019

Mexico worries as US keeps making asylum seekers wait there

MEXICO CITY (AP) — People in overextended Mexican border cities are voicing concern over the continuation of a U.S. policy that makes Central American migrants seeking asylum in the United States wait south of the border. A U.S. federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration can make migrants wait in Mexico for their... Read More

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Asylum

May 3, 2019

ACLU sues to stop Trump policy on jailing asylum seekers

SEATTLE (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union and other groups are again going to court to challenge the Trump administration, this time over its policy to bar detained asylum seekers from asking a judge to grant them bond. The American Civil Liberties Union, American Immigration Council and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project filed a... Read More

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ACLU, Asylum

April 30, 2019

Prosecutors sue feds to stop courthouse immigration arrests

BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors in Massachusetts sued Monday to block federal authorities from making arrests at courthouses of people suspected of being in the country illegally, arguing the practice is making it harder for them to hold defendants accountable and get justice for victims. The top prosecutors for Suffolk County, which includes Boston, and Middlesex... Read More

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April 29, 2019

Immigrant-heavy GOP states OK with census citizen question

PHOENIX (AP) — It’s not just Democratic-leaning states at risk of losing federal money and clout in Congress if the Supreme Court says the upcoming census can include a citizenship question. Fast-growing Arizona, Florida and Texas all have large groups of immigrants, especially Hispanics, who might choose to sit out the census, but are led... Read More

Criminal Justice News, Immigration, News

April 26, 2019

Judge gives US 6 months to identify children split at border

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The federal government has six months to identify potentially thousands of children who were separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border early in President Donald Trump’s term, a judge ordered Thursday. Trump administration officials said they had a goal of six months but opposed any deadline, saying it could take... Read More

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Immigration

April 18, 2019

Court sets hearing on Trump administration’s asylum policy

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Wednesday scheduled a hearing over whether to stop the Trump administration from forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their immigration court hearings. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set a hearing for April 24 in San Francisco over whether a lower court ruling... Read More

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Asylum

April 15, 2019

Court won’t immediately stop wait-in-Mexico asylum policy

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal appeals court put a judge’s order on hold Friday shortly before it would have stopped the Trump administration from forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases move through U.S. courts. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the lower court ruling from taking effect.... Read More

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Asylum

April 9, 2019

Judge blocks Trump’s asylum policy but delays enforcement

A U.S. judge decided Monday to block the Trump administration’s policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico as they wait for an immigration court to hear their cases, but the ruling is on hold for several days. Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco granted a request on behalf of 11 asylum seekers from Central America... Read More

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Asylum

Feds: No more education, legal services for immigrant kids

Trial begins for border activist who helped migrants

Arizona border activist to stand trial for helping migrants

Judge blocks Trump from building sections of border wall

Texas man gets prison for smuggling immigrants in furniture

Courts weigh Trump’s plan to tap Pentagon for border wall

Mexico worries as US keeps making asylum seekers wait there

ACLU sues to stop Trump policy on jailing asylum seekers

Prosecutors sue feds to stop courthouse immigration arrests

Immigrant-heavy GOP states OK with census citizen question

Judge gives US 6 months to identify children split at border

Court sets hearing on Trump administration’s asylum policy

Court won’t immediately stop wait-in-Mexico asylum policy

Judge blocks Trump’s asylum policy but delays enforcement

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