New rules to deny green cards to many legal immigrants

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 23:05:38 +0000

New rules to deny green cards to many legal immigrants

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration announced Monday it is moving forward with one of its most aggressive steps yet to restrict legal immigration: Denying green cards to many migrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance.

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As US agents prepare to arrest ‘thousands,’ migrants live in fear

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 02:11:50 +0000

Thousands of undocumented immigrants were waiting in fear and uncertainty ahead of nationwide raids Sunday that President Donald Trump said would lead to a wave of expulsions.

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Democrats train fire on administration’s handling of migrants

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 22:31:55 +0000

Democrats train fire on administration's handling of migrants

WASHINGTON – Democrats pivoted Wednesday from a divisive fight over a border bill to what they label the government’s “willful neglect” and “callous” treatment of thousands of detained migrants, even as President Donald Trump defended Border Patrol agents and said many people being held “are living far better now than where they came from.”

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Judge blocks Trump policy keeping asylum-seekers locked up

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Wed, 03 Jul 2019 01:12:21 +0000

Judge blocks Trump policy keeping asylum-seekers locked up

SEATTLE – A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday blocked a Trump administration policy that would keep thousands of asylum-seekers locked up while they pursue their cases, saying the Constitution demands that such migrants have a chance to be released from custody.

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Remains of drowned migrants back in El Salvador for burial

Credit to Author: ggaviola| Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 23:33:52 +0000

Drowned migrants return to El Salvador for burial

LA HACHADURA, El Salvador – The bodies of the father and daughter who drowned together last week while trying to cross the Rio Grande to the U.S. returned to El Salvador on Sunday for burial.

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