WASHINGTON — Family immigrant detention was dealt a major blow last week in court, and critics are hoping to build on the ruling’s momentum to kill the practice entirely. Immigration attorneys filed on Tuesday for multiple immigrant women and children to be immediately released from detention facilities without bond. In […]
A federal judge in California has ruled that the Obama administration’s detention of children and their mothers who were caught crossing the border illegally is a serious violation of a longstanding court settlement, and that the families should be released as quickly as possible. In a decision late Friday roundly […]
As Dan-el Padilla Peralta toggled fluidly between worlds for much of his life — ancient and modern, poor and privileged, Dominican and American — there were times when he managed to forget he was a child without a country. He found refuge in New York’s libraries, the Greek and Latin […]
Sen. Chuck Grassley announced Tuesday that he will introduce legislation in an effort to counter the spread of so-called “sanctuary cities.” At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where relatives of those killed by undocumented immigrants testified, the Iowa Republican said that his proposed bill would withhold certain federal funding for […]