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Children were sent to multiple care facilities across the country, and their parents were incarcerated in immigration detention centres or federal prisons - in keeping with the government's "zero tolerance" policy. Photo: Reuters A US judge has temporarily barred the US government from the rapid deportation of immigrant parents reunited with their children, while a court considers the impact on children's rights to seek asylum.
But caseworkers at Cayuga Centres in New York, where the boy had been placed, told her lawyer that the government's vetting process for reunification would take time. Fingerprint collection and analysis alone could take 60 days, and there would also be background checks of all the adults with whom she and her son would stay.
Republican Steve Knight, left, and Democrat Katie Hill are competing for his congressional seat in the 25th District. Katie Hill and Steve Knight are waging one of the most fiercely competitive congressional races in the country, a free-for-all spilling from the pin-neat subdivisions of Simi Valley to the scrubland of the high desert.
President Donald Trump falsely claimed that his administration hadn't implemented new policies leading to the separation of children from their parents at the U.S. border, and said immigration is changing Europe "and I don't mean in a positive way." Trump was told during an interview on Air Force One with British journalist Piers Morgan that protests against his visit across the U.K. were a response to his administration's policy of child separation.
The zero tolerance policy that led to the separations is just one way the Trump administration is working to harden the nation's immigration system. Officials are carving a path around various court rulings to do so.
Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually - a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds.
Abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is a trendy battle cry for liberals. Republicans like it too, but think a better use for the proposal is to cause campaign-season headaches for Democrats.
MEXICO CITY: U.S. President Donald Trump wants to strengthen and improve ties with Mexico after "bumps in the road," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Mexico's next leader on Friday, following the leftist's landslide victory this month. President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, in turn, handed Pompeo a letter addressed to Trump with his plans to reset the relationship, focussing on trade, immigration, development and security, said Marcelo Ebrard, an aide to the incoming president.
Her game face on, Melania Trump dutifully tried her hand at lawn bowls during a solo outing Friday to a historic London veterans' retirement home on her first visit to Britain as America's first lady.
President Donald Trump is tweeting his endorsement of a Florida congressman during his trip to Europe, writing that Rep. Matt Gaetz "is one of the finest and most talented people in Congress." Trump is backing the Republican lawmaker on Twitter at the start of his second day in Britain.
Detaining immigrant children has morphed into a surging industry in the U.S. that now reaps $1 billion annually - a tenfold increase over the past decade, an Associated Press analysis finds. Health and Human Services grants for shelters, foster care and other child welfare services for detained unaccompanied and separated children soared from $74.5 million in 2007 to $958 million dollars in 2017.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai described as "cruel" a policy launched by US President Donald Trump to separate children of illegal immigrants from their families, during her first visit to South America to promote girls' education. More than 2,300 children were separated from their parents after the Trump administration began a "zero tolerance" policy on illegal immigrants in early May, seeking to prosecute all adults who cross the border illegally from Mexico into the United States.
Foxconn Technology Group says it will invest $100 million in engineering and innovation research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which is one of the largest gifts in the school's history. Foxconn Technology Group says it will invest $100 million in engineering and innovation research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which is one of the largest gifts in the school's history.
It all started when conservative YouTuber Ashton Whitty posted a photo of herself wearing a Make America Great Again red cap at Disneyland. Whitty, whose videos include attacks on illegal immigration and Rep. Maxine Waters of California, added that "we need a Disney princess" that supports the Second Amendment, opposes abortion , and is passionate about both free speech and her country.
Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on a tour of the southern border. Congressman Larry Bucshon has released a statement after touring several immigration facilities along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas.
Rep. Diane Black said Wednesday her plan to make illegal border crossings a felony offense rather than a misdemeanor would stop people from being willing to break the law while entering the United States. "One of those big disincentives would be now to know this is a felony not a misdemeanor," the Tennessee Republican told Fox News' "Fox & Friends."
ICE has submitted budget increase requests for detaining illegal immigrants, and a significant portion of that should translate into private prison revenue. Brett Kavanaugh's appointment should strengthen the president's foothold and power to enact his policies, likely further increasing detainment and in turn profits.
White Americans' negative attitudes toward immigrants are driven overwhelmingly by racial prejudices, not "economic anxiety," according to a new working paper by political scientist Steven Miller of Clemson University. Immigration hard-liners, including President Donald Trump, often frame their arguments with ostensibly race-neutral appeals to public safety or economic interest.
President Donald Trump's remarks about tossing a DNA test at U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren during a hypothetical debate have not sat well with some top Bay State Republicans, including one who is running to defeat the Cambridge Democrat. For years Warren has faced controversy over identifying herself as of American Indian heritage, including listing herself as a minority in an Association of American Law Schools legal directory.