Mexico’s detention rate of Central American minors is up 49 percent since last year, according to Mexico’s National Immigration Institute. The institute says almost half of the detained 11,893 underage migrants were travelling alone or with a smuggler between January and May. Two-thirds of the detained were between 12 and […]
An asylum seeker from Mexico suffered a miscarriage after she tripped and fell while shackled in immigration detention, even though pregnant detainees are not supposed to be restrained, her lawyers said. Monserrat Ruiz was given a pregnancy test after arriving at an immigration detention facility in Bakersfield, California, in May, […]
U.S. Visa Glitch Continues to Stall Workers, Strain Farms Computer problem strands thousands of foreigners who need to reach the country for business, other purposes
19 Jun
by Foster, on News
A computer hardware problem continues to cripple U.S. visa processing around the globe, stranding tens of thousands of foreigners who need to reach the country for business, weddings and funerals and other purposes. A few hundred agricultural workers who were stalled near the Mexico-U.S. border have entered since the problem […]
The states that are suing the Obama administration to block the implementation of ambitious plans to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation stand to gain economically if the plans move forward, according to an analysis published Monday by the Center for American Progress. The administration has twice implemented major […]