For the 25,000 migrants awaiting hearings and subject to Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols, representation can be hard to come by.
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On the first day of “return to Mexico” hearings, attorneys and journalists were turned away from the tent courtrooms where the hearings are taking place.
As the Trump administration ratchets up its dehumanization of migrants, we Americans stand to lose our moral center.
The ”Migrant Protection Protocols” will send asylum seekers to Mexico to wait while their cases are processed.
Even as the Tornillo tent city shuts down, the Trump administration’s policies will call for more centers like it.
A detention camp that became the symbol of perhaps the largest mass incarceration of children not charged with a crime since the WWII internment of Japanese Americans will soon become history.
The facility near El Paso will more than double its capacity for unaccompanied minors, expanding to 3,800 beds.
As the government contends with 500 children who remain in government facilities, nightmarish tales are emerging of aborted reunifications.
A ruling allows a woman featured on our site, who was reunited with her son after months of separation, to sue federal government to stop the practice.
A weird news story gets weirder.