By Miriam Jordan The Obama Administration announced Tuesday the expansion of programs that enable Central Americans fleeing violence to apply for refugee status, and said that Costa Rica has agreed to temporarily host some of the more vulnerable individuals before they are resettled in the U.S. The plan is meant […]
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Meet 2 Central American Refugee Kids Who Are Stuck In The U.S. Immigration System
21 Apr
by Foster, on News
by Esther Yu-Hsi Lee FALLS CHURCH, VIRGINIA — David and Alex, two Guatemalan teenage cousins, were part of the wave of unaccompanied children who arrived in the United States from Central America starting in late 2013. They separately entered the country one year and seven months apart to leave dire […]
For a 12-year-old migrant in Mexico, a typical holding cell in Acayucán, Veracruz, is packed. Sets of bunk beds are stacked along the edges of a single cell. The walls are generally a stark pale gray or white. Five months ago, when Human Rights Watch senior counsel Michael Bochenek visited […]
The Obama administration is determined to continue its deportation campaign, despite calls to halt raids and provide temporary protections. Operation Border Guardian In a statement from U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency conducted additional “enforcement actions” at his discretion […]