Immigration
US Border Officials Are Issuing Fake Court Notices To Keep Out Immigrants Who Have Won Asylum
In recent weeks, at least four people have been sent back to Mexico after being granted asylum, an attorney told BuzzFeed News.
Hamed Aleaziz
Doctors Have Been Sleeping Outside For Four Months To Protest Indefinite Detention. They Don't Plan On Stopping.
"We're not out here trying to get a good night's sleep. We know that it's going to be hard and I guess that's the point of it."
Hannah Ryan
A Top US Immigration Official's Threat To Fire Workers Who Leak Info Was Meant To Intimidate Whistleblowers, Union Says
“USCIS’ messages to employees in the form of illegal gags and threats seek to, and likely will impede, the exercise of their whistleblower rights,” a union letter stated.
Hamed Aleaziz
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.
Adolfo Flores
Australia’s Taiwan Deal Is Being Thwarted By Refugees Refusing To Go
Exclusive: Australia repeatedly asks sick refugees to fly to Taiwan for treatment, even after they've refused to go, in order to uphold its harsh immigration policies.
Hannah Ryan
The Trump Administration’s Numbers On Immigrant Family Separations Can’t Be Confirmed, Inspector General Says
The upcoming report also says the Department of Homeland Security failed to address the reporting deficiencies despite knowing about them months in advance of the zero-tolerance policy going into effect.
Hamed Aleaziz
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."
Adolfo Flores
Trump Wants To Start Deporting Asylum-Seekers To Honduras By January
Critics say the Trump administration is forcing people who are fleeing violence and poverty to go back to countries that are unable to protect their own people, let alone immigrants.
Hamed Aleaziz
Asylum Officers Were Told Of Killings And Violence In Guatemala. They Were Ordered To Send People There Anyway.
The research provided by the government to asylum officers confirmed some of their worst fears about sending people to the Central American country.
Hamed Aleaziz
A Top US Immigration Official Threatened To Fire Employees For Leaking Information To The Media
“I feel like there were no leaks before USCIS started doing super-sketchy things,” one official told BuzzFeed News in response to the memo.
Hamed Aleaziz
The Trump Administration Will Deport People Seeking Asylum In The US To Guatemala Without Them Seeing A Lawyer First
The Department of Homeland Security began the secret and controversial deportation process Wednesday. BuzzFeed News obtained new details of how it might work.
Hamed Aleaziz
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
Senators And Presidential Candidates Are Demanding The DHS Report On A Controversial Asylum Policy
The report details the Migration Protection Protocols program, which keeps asylum-seekers in Mexico for the duration of their immigration cases.
Hamed Aleaziz
Trump Is Sending Asylum-Seekers To Guatemala. His Administration Privately Admitted It Had No Idea What Would Happen To Them Next.
“There is uncertainty as to who will provide orientation services for migrants as well as who will provide shelter, food, transportation, and other care," a DHS document said.
Hamed Aleaziz
The Controversial Group Behind The GoFundMe Border Wall Is Building A Second One In Texas. Officials Say It's Undocumented.
"We found out because the We Build the Wall morons were posting videos."
Salvador Hernandez
"Sickening" And "Proof" Of Racism: DHS Officials Said Stephen Miller Must Go After His Emails Were Released
“Not that it wasn’t clear before — these emails just confirm what we all know," a DHS official said. "I’m disgusted that my venerable agency has turned into his personal tool for hate.”
Hamed Aleaziz
Losing My Legal Status In This Country Feels Like A Cruel Joke
With DACA’s death, it no longer matters who the "good" immigrants or "bad" immigrants are anymore. We are all now under the threat of deportation.
Anonymous Contributor
US Border Officials Pressured Asylum Officers To Deny Entry To Immigrants Seeking Protection, A Report Finds
A DHS report obtained by BuzzFeed News found the controversial Trump program to keep asylum-seekers in Mexico has caused significant issues at the border.
Hamed Aleaziz
An Immigration Hardliner Was Just Elevated To The No. 2 Position In Trump’s Homeland Security Department
“This is another end run around proper procedures by the Trump administration,” said one US citizenship official.
Hamed Aleaziz
The Trump Administration Is Planning To Ban Many Asylum-Seekers From Working In The US
“These changes would leave more asylum-seekers dependent, vulnerable to exploitation, and in the shadows,” one immigration attorney told BuzzFeed News, “which is exactly where the regime wants them.”
Hamed Aleaziz
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
The Trump Administration Is Proposing To Become One Of Just Four Countries In The World To Charge A Fee For Asylum
“This rule shows their true colors," a former US Citizenship and Immigration Services official said.
Hamed Aleaziz
The Trump Administration Launched A Secretive Program To More Quickly Deport Mexican Asylum-Seekers
“It’s another brick in the virtual wall they are creating to block asylum-seekers from entering the US,” an analyst said.
Hamed Aleaziz
Under Trump’s New Project, Border Patrol Agents Have Approved Fewer Than Half Of Asylum Screenings
An asylum officer said that Border Patrol agents “have an enforcement mindset that isn't appropriate for humanitarian work," such as conducting credible fear screenings.
Hamed Aleaziz
Sick Refugees Were Quickly Transferred To Australia Just Before The Controversial Medevac Regime Began
Exclusive: The secretive government task force deciding the fate of sick refugees approved an unusually high number of transfers in its last meeting before medevac.
Hannah Ryan
Australia Flew A Refugee With An Infected Cavity From An Island Detention Camp To Taiwan
Exclusive: The untold backstory of the Taiwan deal reveals the extraordinary lengths Australia has gone to in order to keep sick refugees away from its shores.
Hannah Ryan
A Federal Judge Temporarily Blocked Trump’s Plan To Block Immigrants From Entering The US Without Proving They Could Get Health Insurance
“Today’s decision highlights the urgency of blocking this health care ban before it causes irreparable damage to our community and those we serve,” said a plaintiff in the case.
Hamed Aleaziz
A Detention Centre Said A Man Was Brought To His Hearing Late Because He Slept In. A Tribunal Said That Was Laughable.
"This state of affairs is thoroughly unacceptable."
Hannah Ryan
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
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
