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UNHCR requests $255 million to provide refugees with essential medical supplies during COVID-19 pandemic

UNHCR requests $255 million to provide refugees with essential medical supplies during COVID-19 pandemic

by Khadija Islow | Mar 27, 2020 | Featured, Immigration

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees announced on Wednesday it is seeking $255 million to deliver equipment to test refugees and migrants for the coronavirus, to deliver medical supplies and to install handwashing stations in camps and settlements. The...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director explains budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2021

Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director explains budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2021

by Khadija Islow | Mar 11, 2020 | Featured, Immigration

WASHINGTON — The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday defended the Trump administration’s proposed $2 billion budget increase for the agency to $10.4 billion, saying the agency needs more resources for the influx of migrants to the border....
Uyghur Americans embrace their culture amid efforts in China to erase it

Uyghur Americans embrace their culture amid efforts in China to erase it

by Megan Lebowitz | Mar 3, 2020 | Featured, Immigration

FAIRFAX, VA. – “I’m OK. We’re OK. Hang up the phone. Don’t talk too much.” Irade Kashgary remembers her aunt’s warning during a phone call several months ago — the last contact Kashgary had with her relatives in Xinjiang, China. Kashgary, 26, is a Uyghur American...
Supporting unauthorized immigrants could be criminalized, defense warns, as Supreme Court hears arguments in First Amendment case

Supporting unauthorized immigrants could be criminalized, defense warns, as Supreme Court hears arguments in First Amendment case

by James Pollard and Suzy Vazquez | Feb 25, 2020 | Featured, Immigration

WASHINGTON –The Supreme Court heard arguments on Tuesday in a case that could ultimately decide whether the First Amendment protects the people who encourage unauthorized immigrants to remain in the country. The case, United States v. Sineneng-Smith, centers on...
Senators press acting secretary of DHS on proposed funding for border wall

Senators press acting secretary of DHS on proposed funding for border wall

by Megan Lebowitz | Feb 25, 2020 | Featured, Immigration

WASHINGTON — Senators Tuesday pressed Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf on the effectiveness of the Trump administration’s $2 billion proposal for border wall construction and also criticized the construction’s potential harm to tribal lands and...
Trump boasts a safer America, fulfilled border crackdown promises at State of the Union

Trump boasts a safer America, fulfilled border crackdown promises at State of the Union

by Sneha Dey | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured, Immigration, SOTU2020

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump touted hard-line border policies at his third State of the Union, impressing on his anti-immigrant supporters he has fulfilled his 2016 campaign promises. “If you come illegally, you will now be promptly removed,” Trump said....
Senate Vote Blocks National Emergency

Senate Vote Blocks National Emergency

by Brooke Fowler | Mar 14, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, National Security, Politics, Topics

WASHINGTON – The Senate voted 59-41 Thursday to block President Donald Trump’s Feb. 15 declaration of a national emergency, with 12 Republicans joining the 47 Democrats to send a message to the president that he had overstepped his authority. Trump said he declared...
Democrats probe DHS secretary on family separation, border security

Democrats probe DHS secretary on family separation, border security

by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Mar 6, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, Politics

WASHINGTON –– The Department of Homeland Security has been regularly “misleading” Congress and the public by denying it was separating thousands of children from parents at the border and failing to give the House Homeland Security Committee documents related to the...
FOR MIGRANT CHILDREN AT THE BORDER, CONFUSION CLOUDS THE FUTURE

FOR MIGRANT CHILDREN AT THE BORDER, CONFUSION CLOUDS THE FUTURE

by Henry Erlandson | Feb 28, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, Living

WASHINGTON – In the months after the Trump administration formally ended its family separation policy at the U.S.-Mexico border, more than 200 new immigrant children were separated from their families and the number previously separated was much larger than reported....
Democrats, DOD, Clash Over Emergency Declaration Funding

Democrats, DOD, Clash Over Emergency Declaration Funding

by Cameron Peters | Feb 27, 2019 | Featured, Immigration

WASHINGTON — In a contentious House Appropriations subcommittee hearing Wednesday, Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz interrogated Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert McMahon over the reallocation of funding for President Donald Trump’s national emergency...
EXPERTS CLASH OVER IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION ON DECLINING WORKING-AGE POPULATION

EXPERTS CLASH OVER IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION ON DECLINING WORKING-AGE POPULATION

by Henry Erlandson | Feb 14, 2019 | Immigration

WASHINGTON — The United States will soon have to grapple with its rapidly decreasing working-age population, but experts are torn about whether immigration is the cause or the remedy for the decline. Steven Camarota, the director of research for for the...
DEMOCRATS CALL FOR END TO ICE AND CBP HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES

DEMOCRATS CALL FOR END TO ICE AND CBP HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES

by Cameron Peters | Feb 7, 2019 | Featured, Immigration, Politics

WASHINGTON — Democrats called for an end to what they characterized as human rights abuses by the Trump administration on Thursday in two consecutive, emotionally charged press conferences. Along with activist groups like Indivisible, MoveOn and United We Dream,...
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