Closing arguments were heard on Tuesday for Parvez Khan, who could lose citizenship status after living in the U.S. for almost three decades.
“ICE’s mission is to apprehend people that it believes shouldn’t be in our communities and it will go to great lengths to do that, particularly in the face of increased knowledge of rights.”
Sens. Chuck Grassley and Richard Blumenthal are demanding answers from ICE, citing an ICIJ and Intercept investigation into its use of solitary confinement.
Newly unsealed documents detail the tip that led the Border Patrol to zero in on humanitarians rescuing migrants in the Arizona desert.
A new rule bars asylum for people who passed through another country on the way to the U.S. Advocates call it “plainly illegal.”
The U.S. government’s Migrant Protection Protocols, or “Remain in Mexico,” in fact puts migrants in grave danger.
Three months after her appointment as chief of the Border Patrol, Carla Provost posted in the “I’m 10-15” Facebook group.
If governments are criminalizing people who “show basic human decency, then I think that shows that we’re doing something very right.”
Voices
More of the planet is becoming unlivable. A refusal to open borders, or at least make them more porous, will be unconscionable.
Border Patrol agents quickly began deleting racist and violent posts after the existence of their private Facebook group was reported.
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