Kimberly Pineda-Chavez has turned 19 while awaiting her fate in a federal immigration detention center in South Georgia. Fellow detainees helped the Collins Hill High School student celebrate last month by singing “Happy Birthday” in Spanish. Outside the sprawling complex in Ocilla, the Buford woman’s deportation case is attracting national […]
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Central American immigrants, wary of recent raids sweeping up young people, adjust to a life of fear
15 Mar
by Foster, on News
When Wildin David Guillen Acosta left his apartment to head to high school one chilly morning in January, two immigration agents were waiting. Acosta, 19, immediately threw himself on the ground and yelled for help. As his father watched from the window of their garden apartment in a scruffy southeast […]
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — Cesar Lara has a clear explanation for the flood of Central Americans pouring into the United States. Some flee the raging violence caused by gangs and drug cartels. “You see terrible things from the time you’re a child,” the 20-year-old said. Some flee because they can’t find work. Lara only got […]
Between five and ten migrant children have been killed since February after the United States deported them back to Honduras, a morgue director told the Los Angeles Times. Lawmakers have yet to come up with best practices to deal with the waves of unaccompanied children apprehended by Border Patrol agents, […]