Tag: immigrants
Trump, at Fund-Raiser, Says He Wants Immigrants From ‘Nice’ Countries
At rallies, Donald Trump frequently laments migrants from a list of countries from Africa, Asia and the Middle East as he stokes fears around the surg [...]
Federal Records Show Increasing Use of Solitary Confinement for Immigrants
A new report based on records from the Trump and Biden years found the average length of solitary detainment was longer than the duration the U.N. say [...]
Fact-Checking Claims That Senate Bill Allows 5,000 Unauthorized Immigrants a Day
Republican critics are misrepresenting one provision of a bipartisan deal to suggest that it permits 5,000 illegal crossings a day.
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McConnell and Other Senate Republicans Criticize Trump’s Talk on Immigrants
The minority leader took an oblique swipe at Donald Trump’s rhetoric about migrants “poisoning the blood” of the country, but others like Senator Tomm [...]
Justice Department Detains Thousands of Immigrants as Witnesses
The Justice Department has invoked a 200-year-old law to detain thousands of undocumented immigrants as witnesses in smuggling cases. Judges have lock [...]
White House Urges Eligible Immigrants to Apply for Work Permits
President Biden, under pressure to address a surge of migrants who are overwhelming resources in New York and several other American cities, is rampin [...]
Biden Will Expand Health Care Access for DACA Immigrants
The DACA program has shielded hundreds of thousands of young adults from deportation, but those immigrants have not been able to access federal health [...]
Supreme Court punts on case tied to Trump’s ‘public charge’ rule for immigrants
But four justices signed on to a concurring opinion that raised doubts about the Biden administration’s decision to essentially give up in lawsuits a [...]
Supreme Court Rejects Bail Hearings for Jailed Immigrants
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that a federal law does not require that immigrants detained for long periods while they are fighting d [...]
Californians working from home are moving to Mexico amid inflation
More than 360,000 people left California in 2021, in what some are calling "The California Exodus" — many leaving for states like Texas, Arizona and W [...]
Supreme Court Weighs Jailed Immigrants’ Rights to Bail Hearings
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday over whether immigrants detained for long periods while they are fighting deportation are [...]
Democrats are set to leave immigrants in the lurch again
The House may soon vote on Democrats’ $1.75 trillion budget reconciliation bill, with provisions to shield undocumented immigrants living in the [...]
Why Biden is turning his back on Haitian immigrants
The images left many sickened and outraged: Border Patrol agents on horseback hounding Haitian migrants near the US-Mexico border, more than 14, [...]
U.S. Makes Covid Vaccinations Mandatory for New Immigrants
Beginning Oct. 1, new immigrants to the United States must be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said [...]
Few immigrants in detention have been vaccinated. That should change.
Regardless of the widespread availability of vaccines within the US, the overwhelming majority of immigrants held in detention within the nation [...]