When President Donald J. Trump announced his newly created office of Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement — or VOICE — last week during his speech to a joint session of Congress, it built upon his longstanding efforts to associate crime with immigration.
However, if Monica Gomez Isaac, executive director of the Institute for Immigration Research at
While President Trump wavered Thursday on whether he will stop shielding from deportation people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, his aides have identified at least two ways to quietly end their protections without his fingerprints.
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Texas legislation could force campus police departments to hold on to those they arrest until federal immigration authorities can consider their legal status….
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The Obama administration is considering an end to the practice of keeping immigrant detainees in for-profit centers, weeks after the Federal Bureau of Prisons announced it would stop its use of private prisons.
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In the past five years, more than 100,000 children and teens have crossed the border between the United States and Mexico without their parents.
Gaspar Marcos, an 18-year-old who lives in Los Angeles, is one of them. A recent story about how he works until 3 a.m. and gets to school by 8 a.m. generated a tremendous response.
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WASHINGTON — Isabel Aguilar had sworn she would not cry on Thursday if the Supreme Court ruled against President Obama’s programs to give deportation protection to immigrants in the country illegally. But she did.
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s deadlock on Thursday in a key immigration case disappointed college students who had hoped for reassurance that their parents and siblings wouldn’t be deported.
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Millions of immigrant parents and their families lost in the misbegotten decision in U.S. vs. Texas. In a 4-4 tie, the Supreme Court returned the issue of their deportation status to the Brownsville, Texas, federal judge who had halted President Obama‘s latest “deferred action” orders in the first place.
The president of Cal State Long Beach announced Friday that temporary orders put in place to protect undocumented people from being detained for immigration violations by campus police are now permanent.
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The tears begin flowing the moment the U.S. Border Patrol agents swing open the doors of the border enforcement zone, allowing Mexican families to step through and reunite with loved ones at the border fence near San Diego.
The weekly encounters at Friendship Park, across the border from Tijuana, showcase the soft-hearted side of