By Amy Taxin October 28 LOS ANGELES — More than 700,000 immigrants are waiting on applications to become U.S. citizens, a process that once took about six months but has stretched to more than two years in some places under the Trump administration. The number of immigrants aspiring to become U.S. citizens surged […]
Daily Archives: October 30, 2018
By Wesley Morgan The Pentagon will deploy helicopters, engineers and medical personnel to the border with Mexico in response to President Donald Trump’s request for more troops to help crack down on illegal immigration, the Pentagon announced Friday. In a statement, the Pentagon did not specify how many additional forces […]
Abrupt Release From Detention Sends Many Immigrants Through San Antonio
30 Oct
by Foster LLP, on News
By David Martin Davies It’s 3 a.m. Saturday and Bertalina is shivering at the San Antonio Greyhound Bus Station. She and her son were released hours ago from a border patrol holding facility in McAllen and then sent to San Antonio. Bertalina is one of several thousand asylum seekers suddenly […]