Adolfo Flores
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.
Adolfo Flores
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About 700,000 undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children could face deportation if DACA is rescinded.
Adolfo Flores
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."
Adolfo Flores
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.
Adolfo Flores
An Asylum-Seeking Toddler Died After He Was Struck By A Hit-And-Run Driver At The Border
The 2-year-old boy, who died on Saturday, is the 20th child to die at the US–Mexico border this year.
Adolfo Flores
ICE Deleted Surveillance Video Of A Transgender Asylum-Seeker Who Died In Its Custody
Attorneys representing Roxsana Hernández's family said ICE was required to preserve the surveillance footage for pending litigation.
Adolfo Flores
A Cuban Asylum-Seeker Died Of An Apparent Suicide After Spending Months In ICE Detention
"He told me he was going to participate in a hunger strike because of the abuse he endured in detention," his wife told BuzzFeed News.
Hamed Aleaziz
A British Family Said They Were Detained In The US In "Disgusting" Conditions After Accidentally Crossing The Border
"We are in disbelief that a government would do this to human beings," said the 24-year-old British woman, who was detained with her 3-month-old baby.
Adolfo Flores
Asylum-Seekers Protesting Squalid Conditions Shut Down A US Border Crossing For 15 Hours
"This is an injustice," said one asylum-seeker.
Adolfo Flores
Julián Castro Escorted 12 Asylum-Seekers To The US Border. They Were All Sent Back To Mexico.
"It's a disaster," the presidential hopeful said of a Trump administration policy forcing asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico. "People should not live like this."
Adolfo Flores
Mexican Immigrants Are Accusing Border Patrol Agents Of Denying Asylum And Illegally Deporting Them
"This is very clearly illegal."
Adolfo Flores
Asylum-Seekers Are Trying To Flee Violence In Mexico. The US Is Sending Them Right Back.
Turning away asylum-seekers at official border crossings and sending them back to the country they're fleeing is against US and international law, immigrant advocates said.
Adolfo Flores
The Trump Administration Can’t Detain Immigrant Children Indefinitely, A Federal Judge Has Ruled
If the Trump administration’s new rule is implemented, it will likely result in thousands of families being detained while their immigration cases play out.
Adolfo Flores
Border Patrol Agents Are Writing “Facebook” As A Street Address For Asylum-Seekers Forced To Wait In Mexico
"It's wild...People are having to make things up as they go along."
Adolfo Flores
The Trump Administration Has Created A Central American Barrier For Asylum-Seekers With A New Honduras Deal
Honduras is the third Central American country through which asylum-seekers will first have to apply for asylum before appealing to the United States.
Adolfo Flores
The Trump Administration Signed An Agreement That Could Force Asylum-Seekers To Ask For Refuge In El Salvador
The agreement is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to decrease the number of asylum-seekers showing up at the US border.
Adolfo Flores
More Immigrant Children Are Dying At The Border As The Trump Administration Sends People Back To Mexico
A 21-month-old immigrant boy's drowning is the latest in a growing number of child deaths at the border.
Adolfo Flores
The Trump Administration Spent $33 Million To Keep A Child Detention Center Open That Doesn’t House A Single Child
A member of Congress expressed disbelief at the price tag to keep the facility running for what he called "invisible, imaginary, nonexistent human beings."
Adolfo Flores
A Teen Girl Forced To Wait In Mexico Under Trump’s Asylum Policies Nearly Drowned While Waiting To Cross
The near-drowning in the same waters where a father and his daughter died just months ago highlights the danger asylum-seekers face while forced to wait in Mexico.
Adolfo Flores
The Trump Administration Opened Secretive Tent Courts At The Border. The Public Is Not Allowed Inside.
“I don’t know any other word to describe this other than a sham,” a lawyer said.
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