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A Venezuelan Dad Was Allowed Into The US, But His 18-Year-Old Daughter Was Sent Back To Mexico Alone
"The whole reason I went back to Venezuela was to get her because her life is worth more than mine and now she's alone in Mexico," Branly said.
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A Parasite In Her Eyes Was Slowly Making Her Blind, But The US Turned This Immigrant Away Multiple Times
"I feel like I'm going to die here."
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A Border Officer Said They Were Told To Lie About Not Having Enough Space To Process Asylum-Seekers
A CBP officer said in a deposition that supervisors instructed them to lie about not having space to process asylum-seekers at the border.
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Two Couples Shared What It Was Like Falling In Love At A Migrant Camp At The US–Mexico Border
“He tells me we can’t look back. ‘We have to push forward together.’”
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ICE Detainees Were Held Without Bond Hearings For Months. Attorneys Worry It Will Get Worse.
"Don't they understand this is a due process concern?" an attorney told BuzzFeed News. "People are rotting in detention."
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Trump Is Imposing Immigration Restrictions On Six More Countries, Including Nigeria And Myanmar
The latest travel restrictions will go into effect Feb. 22.
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Immigration "Tent Courts" Aren't Allowing Full Access To The Public, Attorneys Say
Observers and reporters can't watch what some consider to be the most important part of an immigration proceeding.
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Border Patrol Is Detaining Asylum-Seeking Families At A Texas Facility For Longer Than The Law Allows
The families are also expected to be deported under a new Trump administration program that sends asylum-seekers to Guatemala to ask for protection there instead.
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Top Border Officials Scrambled To Call Officers When They Found Out They Were Questioning Iranian US Citizens
Emails show CBP leaders reached out to officers in Blaine, Washington, after hearing reports of people of Iranian descent being sent to secondary inspection and questioned for hours.
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US Citizens From Iran Were Stopped And Questioned At The US Border While Returning From Canada
The questioning was the basis of viral social media claims that the US was detaining Iranians at border crossings. Customs and Border Protection said it was operating with “enhanced posture at its ports of entry to safeguard our national security.”
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Asylum-Seekers Keep Getting Sent Back To Mexico Without Their Children Based On Unreliable Information
“I told them, ‘I’m not a thief; my hands are clean. Anything I was accused of is a lie,’” one immigrant told BuzzFeed News. “It didn’t matter in the end.”
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An Immigrant Woman Was Allowed To Stay In The US — But Her Three Children Have A Deportation Order
The children were allowed in the US for now, but they face deportation. The confusion Lissette's family is facing is partly a result of the Trump administration's asylum ban.
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Inspector General Finds No "Malfeasance" After Two Immigrant Children Died In Border Patrol Custody
An government watchdog investigation into their deaths found "no misconduct or malfeasance by DHS personnel."
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ICE Destroyed Footage Of A Trans Asylum-Seeker Who Died In Custody Despite A Request To Save It
"It's completely ridiculous to suggest they didn't know they were supposed to preserve critical video footage," her attorney said.
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Immigrants Sent Back To Mexico Are Not Getting Adequate Health Care, And Doctors Are Worried
"I am worried that people are going to die," one health care provider told BuzzFeed News.
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Desperate Asylum-Seekers Stuck In Mexico Are Sending Their Children Across The US Border Alone
"Your children are everything and you want to be with them always, but you also want what's best for them."
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An Arizona Teacher Helped Immigrants In The Desert. A Jury Decided It Wasn't A Crime.
"The government failed in its attempt to criminalize basic human kindness," Scott Warren said after the acquittal.
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Conservative Supreme Court Justices Appeared To Side With Trump's Decision To End DACA
About 700,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children could face deportation if DACA is rescinded.
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A Mexican Official Threatened To Take Immigrants' Children If They Didn't Move To A Shelter
"If I come back and see kids, I’m going to take them."
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Two Senators Are Demanding That A Special Counsel Investigate The Death Of A Transgender Woman In ICE Custody
Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris and Richard Blumenthal say there remain "significant factual disputes" related to the circumstances surrounding Roxsana Hernández's death.
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