“[Last] Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments from three lawsuits demanding the Trump administration preserve Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA. The Obama-era program has granted protection from deportation and a work permit to at least 700,000 undocumented people who were brought to the United States as children. The court’s conservative majority appeared…
“The Trump administration is proposing major changes to rules about how long migrant families can be held in government custody, arguing that the move will yield more humane conditions in detention facilities. But critics fear the regulations will have the opposite effect. William Brangham talks to Warren Binford of Willamette University College of Law, about…
“More than a week after lawmakers flocked to the U.S.-Mexico border to observe the horrible treatment of refugee children and families in immigration jails, reports of unsafe and unsanitary conditions for asylum seekers are continuing. In Clint, Texas, the Border Patrol station that garnered international attention for jailing hundreds of migrant children without access to…
“Dr. Scott Allen is under contract with the Department of Homeland Security to oversee the conditions at the border detention facilities, but he’s speaking out against these child jails. He says many children are ill and more are vulnerable to getting sick. In addition to having poor access to adequate resources, these children are likely…
“An investigation by the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general found deplorable conditions in detention facilities housing some of the 52,000 immigrants held in private, for-profit jails around the U.S. Immigration reporter Aura Bogado says that the photos and descriptions from these facilities are horrific, but they confirm “what immigrants have said for years about…
“We wanted to send a message to the ICE officers, Border Patrol: Every single time you detain somebody, could they be an infiltrator?” says Mohammad Abdollahi, an undocumented immigrants rights activist who starred in The Infiltrators, a film about organizing detainees in Florida’s Broward Transitional Facility. We spoke with the immigrant rights activist at the…
“Trump administration officials are acknowledging that there may be thousands more missing immigrant children who were separated from their parents than originally reported. This was the focus of a hearing on Thursday of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. We speak to Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights…
American. I am an American. Please do not ask me where I’m from. I am about as American as you can get; born and raised on the star-spangled banner, the pledge of allegiance, Superman, and someone else’s American History. Editor’s Note: This essay was first published last October 2018. In light of the recent hysteria…
“Hundreds of migrant children could be released from government custody as the Trump administration relaxes requirements for the adults sponsoring them. The shift was followed by an Associated Press report that some shelters house more than 1,000 children. Michelle Brane of the Women’s Refugee Commission joins Amna Nawaz to explain why the change is an…
“As the Trump administration continues to defend firing tear gas into crowds of asylum seekers, we look at the history of tear gas, which is banned in warfare but legal for federal authorities and police to turn on civilians. Border authorities’ use of tear gas has spiked under the Trump administration, with the agency’s own…