Albertina Contreras and her daughter, Yakelyn, were victims of Donald Trump’s family separation policy. On Tuesday, they attended the State of the Union.
In the Trump era, GOP lawmakers are openly being encouraged to stoke fear over immigrant crime.
”It’s a way for ICE to continue doing their work in the shadows, like secret police. It’s much easier to detain someone when nobody’s watching.“
The courthouse operations have been coupled with increased reports of ICE agents using physical force to take undocumented immigrants into custody.
The GOP offer to Democrats would require Central American minors to request asylum from their home countries and sets a cap for granting asylum.
A stop on the Underground Railroad and an early African-American burial site in South Texas are endangered by the first section of Trump's border wall.
The activists are on trial for leaving lifesaving supplies along a deadly migrant route — or what the government considers “littering.”
William Barr, Trump’s nominee for attorney general, has a long record of immigration extremism.
Since its founding, the U.S. Border Patrol has arguably been the most politicized and abusive branch of federal law enforcement.
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