The Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday over whether immigrants facing deportation can be detained indefinitely for months or even years without a hearing, a case that could have broad implications for President-elect Donald Trump’s proposals to crack down on those entering the country illegally and to ramp up deportations. […]
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Locked up and in limbo: Mother takes immigration, child custody battle to court
10 Nov
by Foster, on News
By Ann E. Marimow and Rachel Weiner From the day he was picked up three years ago by Border Patrol agents in Texas, Dora Beltrán’s son has cycled through shelters and detention centers in five states as his mother fights to bring him home.The family’s immigration standing is not at […]
The Department of Homeland Security is a month away from running out of money to detain illegal immigrants—a fresh sign of federal budget dysfunction emerging less than two weeks after Congress funded the government through early December. Homeland Security officials plan to ask the White House for a quick transfer […]
Research Group Predicts the Amount of Child Refugees to Enter the U.S. in 2016 – 127,000
9 Sep
by Foster, on News
By Claudia Balthazar (staff@latinpost.com) A research group estimated that more than 127,000 children will enter the United States in the year 2016, up from less than 100,000 unauthorized migrants that entered the U.S. in 2015, in a report released on Wednesday. The research group, Child Trends, estimated that only about […]