Maria Sacchetti The Washington Post
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US Detention Centres Called "Summer Camps". What They Actually Look Like
More than a year after he drew criticism for comparing family detention to a "summer camp," the nation's top immigration enforcer stood in a clean hallway in America's largest family detention complex and gestured around himself.
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US Moves To Deny Green Cards, Citizenship For Poor Immigrants
Legal immigrants who use public benefits - such as Medicaid, food stamps or housing assistance - could have a tougher time obtaining a green card under a policy change announced Monday that is at the center of the Trump administration's effort to reduce immigration levels.
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"You Want A Cookie?": US Border Agents Offer Snacks, Medical Checks
The deaths of two Guatemalan children in December and the massive groups of Central American families crossing the border are increasingly transforming the Border Patrol's role from national security to humanitarian relief.
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2 Forces Meet At US-Mexico Border As Immigration Policy Meets Desperation
To Carmen Palma, a Salvadoran migrant waiting at a shelter just south of the border, her six-year-old daughter's life depends on getting asylum in the United States. She and hundreds of thousands of others have staked their lives on getting there.
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Chemistry Professor Arrested On His Front Lawn In US Won't Be Deported For Now
A Kansas chemistry professor from Bangladesh who has lived in the United States for more than 30 years - and who was arrested by immigration officials on his front lawn Jan. 24 - has been granted a temporary stay of deportation, his attorney said Thursday morning.
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Federal Judge In Hawaii Freezes Trump's New Travel Ban
A federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday issued a sweeping freeze of President Donald Trump's new executive order hours before it would have temporarily barred the issuance of new visas to citizens of six Muslim-majority countries and suspended the admission of new refugees.
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US Detention Centres Called "Summer Camps". What They Actually Look Like
More than a year after he drew criticism for comparing family detention to a "summer camp," the nation's top immigration enforcer stood in a clean hallway in America's largest family detention complex and gestured around himself.
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US Moves To Deny Green Cards, Citizenship For Poor Immigrants
Legal immigrants who use public benefits - such as Medicaid, food stamps or housing assistance - could have a tougher time obtaining a green card under a policy change announced Monday that is at the center of the Trump administration's effort to reduce immigration levels.
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"You Want A Cookie?": US Border Agents Offer Snacks, Medical Checks
The deaths of two Guatemalan children in December and the massive groups of Central American families crossing the border are increasingly transforming the Border Patrol's role from national security to humanitarian relief.
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2 Forces Meet At US-Mexico Border As Immigration Policy Meets Desperation
To Carmen Palma, a Salvadoran migrant waiting at a shelter just south of the border, her six-year-old daughter's life depends on getting asylum in the United States. She and hundreds of thousands of others have staked their lives on getting there.
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Chemistry Professor Arrested On His Front Lawn In US Won't Be Deported For Now
A Kansas chemistry professor from Bangladesh who has lived in the United States for more than 30 years - and who was arrested by immigration officials on his front lawn Jan. 24 - has been granted a temporary stay of deportation, his attorney said Thursday morning.
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Federal Judge In Hawaii Freezes Trump's New Travel Ban
A federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday issued a sweeping freeze of President Donald Trump's new executive order hours before it would have temporarily barred the issuance of new visas to citizens of six Muslim-majority countries and suspended the admission of new refugees.
