US begins reuniting some families separated at Mexico border
3 years, 7 months ago

US begins reuniting some families separated at Mexico border

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration said Monday that four families that were separated at the Mexico border during Donald Trump’s presidency will be reunited in the United States this week in what Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calls “just the beginning” of a broader effort. He described them as children who were 3 years old at the time and “teenagers who have had to live without their parent during their most formative years.” Parents will return to the United States on humanitarian parole while authorities consider other longer-term forms of legal status, said Michelle Brane, executive director of the administration’s Family Reunification Task Force. “We have a lot of work still to do, but I am proud of the progress we have made and the reunifications that we have helped to achieve.” More than 5,500 children were separated from their parents during the Trump administration going back to July 1, 2017, many of them under a “zero-tolerance” policy to criminally prosecute any adult who entered the country illegally, according to court filings. It has made major strides moving children from grossly overcrowded Border Patrol facilities to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services shelters, which are more suited to longer-term stays until children are placed with sponsors in the United States, typically parents or close relatives.

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Heartfelt reunions across the U.S.-Mexico border: Families celebrate together despite political backdrop
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Heartfelt reunions across the U.S.-Mexico border: Families celebrate together despite political backdrop

New Indian Express  

Nearly 200 families reunite briefly on the U.S.-Mexico border for heartwarming reunions. The annual event, organized by an immigrant rights advocacy group, took place three days before the U.S. presidential election, despite increased security measures due to the ongoing immigration and border security debates.

Families Still Feel Fallout of Trump's Immigration Policy, Fear His Return to Office
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Families Still Feel Fallout of Trump's Immigration Policy, Fear His Return to Office

Associated Press  

The fallout of Trump's zero tolerance immigration policy continues to impact migrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. Sixteen-year-old Billy, one of thousands of children separated from their parents, wants people to remember what happened and to ensure that such a tragedy never happens again.

Biden administration will seek partial end to special court oversight of child migrants
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Biden administration will seek partial end to special court oversight of child migrants

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration will seek to partially end the 27-year-old court supervision of how the federal government cares for child migrants traveling alone, shortly after producing its own list of safeguards against mistreatment, an attorney involved in the case says. The Justice Department has told opposing attorneys it will ask a federal judge on Friday to terminate …

Federal judge prohibits separating migrant families at US border for 8 years
1 year ago

Federal judge prohibits separating migrant families at US border for 8 years

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — A federal judge on Friday prohibited the separation of families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration for eight years, preemptively blocking resumption of a lightning-rod, Trump-era policy that the former president hasn’t ruled out if voters return him to the White House next year. The separation of thousands of families “represents one of the most …

Federal judge prohibits separating migrant families at U.S. border for 8 years
1 year ago

Federal judge prohibits separating migrant families at U.S. border for 8 years

LA Times  

A federal judge on Friday prohibited the separation of families at the border for purposes of deterring immigration for eight years, preemptively blocking resumption of a lightning-rod, Trump-era policy that the former president hasn’t ruled out if voters return him to the White House next year. The separation of thousands of families “represents one of the most shameful chapters in …

Biden administration settles lawsuit over Trump-era migrant family separation policy
1 year, 2 months ago

Biden administration settles lawsuit over Trump-era migrant family separation policy

Raw Story  

Oct. 16, 2023 "Biden administration settles lawsuit over Trump-era migrant family separation policy" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. The federal government will be prohibited from implementing a Trump administration immigration policy that separated children from parents …

Settlement over Trump family separations at the border limits future separations for 8 years
1 year, 2 months ago

Settlement over Trump family separations at the border limits future separations for 8 years

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — The federal government would be barred from immigration policies that separate parents from children for eight years under a proposed court settlement announced Monday that also provides families that were split under the Trump administration with temporary legal status and short-term housing aid. The settlement between the Biden administration and the American Civil Liberties Union, if approved …

Biden agrees to settle ACLU lawsuit over Trump-era migrant family separations
1 year, 2 months ago

Biden agrees to settle ACLU lawsuit over Trump-era migrant family separations

LA Times  

People who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border are held at a border patrol processing center located below the Eagle Pass International Bridge in Eagle Pass, Texas. Government policies that cause widespread separation of migrant children from their parents would be banned under a proposed legal settlement filed Monday by the Biden administration and the American Civil Liberties Union. “The Department of …

US will let in at least 100,000 Latin Americans to reunite with families
1 year, 7 months ago

US will let in at least 100,000 Latin Americans to reunite with families

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — As President Joe Biden’s administration prepares for the end of asylum restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is offering some new legal options for people — especially families — to come to the United States. The administration said it will admit at least 100,000 Latin Americans seeking to reunite with family members in the United States, …

US will let in at least 100,000 Latin Americans to reunite with families
1 year, 7 months ago

US will let in at least 100,000 Latin Americans to reunite with families

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The administration said it will …

Nearly 1,000 migrant families still separated by Trump-era policy
1 year, 10 months ago

Nearly 1,000 migrant families still separated by Trump-era policy

Al Jazeera  

More than 3,800 children were removed from families between 2017 and 2021 as part of a crackdown on border crossings. Years after a widely criticised United States policy known as “family separation” forcibly took refugee and migrant children away from their families at the US southern border, nearly 1,000 have yet to be returned. In February 2021, Biden also created …

Close to 1,000 migrant children separated by Trump yet to be reunited with parents
1 year, 10 months ago

Close to 1,000 migrant children separated by Trump yet to be reunited with parents

India Today  

Nearly 1,000 migrant children separated at the U.S.-Mexico border by the administration of former President Donald Trump have yet to be reunited with their parents despite a two-year effort by President Joe Biden. Biden, a Democrat, issued an executive order shortly after taking office in January 2021 that established a task force to reunite children separated from their families under …

US reunites nearly 700 kids taken from parents under Trump
1 year, 10 months ago

US reunites nearly 700 kids taken from parents under Trump

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — A Biden administration task force designed to reunite children separated from their families during President Trump’s presidency has reconnected nearly 700 children with their families, officials said Thursday. President Joe Biden issued an executive order on his first day in office to reunite families that were split up under the Trump administration’s widely condemned practice of forcibly separating …

Inside Biden’s border plans: How optimism turned to chaos
3 years, 1 month ago

Inside Biden’s border plans: How optimism turned to chaos

Associated Press  

McALLEN, Texas — For about four months before President Joe Biden took office, advisers engaged in intense internal debate about how quickly they should undo his predecessor’s hardline border policies. In the summer of 2014, large numbers of unaccompanied children from Central America’s Northern Triangle countries — Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras — showed up along the Texas border in …

Data | Unaccompanied minors apprehended at the US-Mexico border climb to a ten-year high in 2020
3 years, 1 month ago

Data | Unaccompanied minors apprehended at the US-Mexico border climb to a ten-year high in 2020

The Hindu  

Close to 1.7 million migrants tried to illegally enter the U.S. between October 2020 and September 2021, the highest recorded figure for any 12-month period since 1960. Illegal entry attempts The graph shows the number of migrants encountered by the U.S. Border Patrol each year across the U.S.-Mexico border. Click to remove AMP mode Indians among migrants The graph shows …

US in talks to pay hundreds of millions to families separated at border
3 years, 1 month ago

US in talks to pay hundreds of millions to families separated at border

Live Mint  

The Biden administration is in talks to offer immigrant families that were separated during the Trump administration around $450,000 a person in compensation, according to people familiar with the matter, as several agencies work to resolve lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who say the government subjected them to lasting psychological trauma. The number of families eligible under …

US steps up effort to unite families separated under Trump
3 years, 3 months ago

US steps up effort to unite families separated under Trump

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is expanding its effort to find and reunite migrant families who were separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under President Donald Trump as part of a zero-tolerance policy on illegal crossings. “We recognize that we can’t make these families completely whole again,” said Michelle Brané, executive director of the administration’s Family Reunification Task Force. “But we …

US widens effort to unite migrant families separated under Trump
3 years, 3 months ago

US widens effort to unite migrant families separated under Trump

Al Jazeera  

The Biden administration has launched a new programme that it says will expand efforts to find and reunite migrant families who were separated at the US-Mexico border under President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance policy on irregular crossings. A US federal task force said on Monday that the programme would help find many parents who are in remote Central American communities but …

Families separated at Mexico border ask for residency, aid
3 years, 4 months ago

Families separated at Mexico border ask for residency, aid

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Several parents who were separated from their children on the U.S.-Mexico border during former President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the Homeland Security Secretary for permanent legal residency in the United States and compensation, said the mother of two of the children. Keldy Mabel Gonzales Brebe, who was separated from two sons in the fall of …

US border: Rising Covid concerns could slow plans to scrap Trump-era policy
3 years, 5 months ago

US border: Rising Covid concerns could slow plans to scrap Trump-era policy

CNN  

Washington CNN — The Biden administration may delay winding down a Trump-era border policy tied to the pandemic due to increasing concerns about Covid-19 variants, according to a source familiar with the matter. The administration – under fire from both conservatives and liberals on immigration – had been considering ending the public health order that’s allowed for the swift expulsion …

US border encounters of migrant families rise despite heat
3 years, 5 months ago

US border encounters of migrant families rise despite heat

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — U.S. officials say the number of migrant families they encountered at the border in June increased by 25% from the previous month even as summer temperatures rise in the deserts and mountain terrain of the southwestern borderlands. According to new numbers released Friday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection tallied 55,805 members of families with children in June, compared …

US and Mexico are putting migrant minors in ‘harm’s way’: report
3 years, 6 months ago

US and Mexico are putting migrant minors in ‘harm’s way’: report

Al Jazeera  

A report published by Amnesty International found that the US and Mexico returned tens of thousands of migrant children. “What we have found is that both the US and Mexican governments were sending tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children back to their countries of origin without adequate screening for the harm that they could face there,” Brian Griffey, Amnesty’s …

Migration at US-Mexico border still high, despite Biden’s efforts
3 years, 6 months ago

Migration at US-Mexico border still high, despite Biden’s efforts

Al Jazeera  

More than 180,000 migrants crossed into the US border in May, a 20-year high and up slightly from last month. The number of migrants arriving in the United States through its southern border with Mexico remained high during the month of May, despite sustained diplomatic efforts by the Biden administration to stem the surge. According to statistics published by the …

Fewer children cross US border in May but numbers stay high
3 years, 6 months ago

Fewer children cross US border in May but numbers stay high

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The number of unaccompanied children and families entering the U.S. illegally on the Mexican border dropped sharply in May but remained unusually high, authorities said Wednesday. Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a message to those thinking of making the journey during her visit Monday to Guatemala City: “Do not come.” The administration again quietly posted numbers on its …

US identifies 3,900 children separated at border under Trump
3 years, 6 months ago

US identifies 3,900 children separated at border under Trump

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — The Biden administration said Tuesday that it has identified more than 3,900 children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” policy on illegal crossings, providing one of the more detailed accounts of a chapter in U.S. immigration history that drew widespread condemnation. The Biden administration’s Family Reunification Task Force count …

US: 2,100 migrant children may still be separated from parents
3 years, 6 months ago

US: 2,100 migrant children may still be separated from parents

Al Jazeera  

A Biden administration task force charged with reuniting families separated under Donald Trump, has so far united 7 children. An effort by US President Joe Biden to reunite migrant families separated by the previous administration has so far reunited seven children with their parents, according to a US Department of Homeland Security report. Biden issued an executive order shortly after …

‘There was no going back': Migrants send kids into US alone
3 years, 7 months ago

‘There was no going back': Migrants send kids into US alone

Associated Press  

LA JOYA, Texas — Marely had traveled for 13 days, trekking with her mother from Central America to the busiest corridor for illegal U.S.-Mexico border crossings. They told us to run, to keep going,” said Marely, who turned herself over to Border Patrol agents in La Joya, Texas. For two hours, the girl from a village south of San Salvador …

US agents encounter more single adults crossing border
3 years, 7 months ago

US agents encounter more single adults crossing border

Associated Press  

LA JOYA, Texas — Parents emerge from the brush into a baseball field, carrying exhausted children. Border Patrol agents dictate orders: Families with young children in one line and unaccompanied children in another. But while asylum-seeking families and children dominate public attention, single adults represent a growing number of border encounters, nearly two of every three in April. Some current …

Number of children traveling alone at border eases in April
3 years, 7 months ago

Number of children traveling alone at border eases in April

Associated Press  

SAN DIEGO — The number of unaccompanied children encountered on the U.S. border with Mexico in April eased from an all-time high a month earlier, while more adults were found coming without families, authorities said Tuesday. Authorities encountered 17,171 children traveling alone, down 9% from 18,960 in March, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, but still well above the …

Migrant arrivals at US-Mexico border rose slightly in April
3 years, 7 months ago

Migrant arrivals at US-Mexico border rose slightly in April

Al Jazeera  

New data shows the number of migrant children travelling alone to the US dropped by 12 percent from March to April. The number of migrants arriving at the United States’ southern border with Mexico rose slightly during the month of April compared with the previous month, according to the latest official figures, while the number of children travelling alone to …

Biden admin to begin reuniting families separated at border
3 years, 7 months ago

Biden admin to begin reuniting families separated at border

Al Jazeera  

Four families separated during the administration of Donald Trump will be reunited this week, officials said. The administration of United States President Joe Biden has said that four families that were separated at the Mexico border during Donald Trump’s presidency will be reunited this week. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas called Monday’s announcement “just the beginning” of a broader effort …

U.S. to start reuniting some families separated at Mexico border
3 years, 7 months ago

U.S. to start reuniting some families separated at Mexico border

LA Times  

The Biden administration is touting the U.S. reunion this week of four families split apart by the Trump administration’s separation policy, framing it as a key moment in a broader, more humanitarian approach to immigration, in contrast with the “cruelty” of the president’s predecessor. On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas said a task force established by a February …

Biden vowed to end Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, but families are still being separated
3 years, 7 months ago

Biden vowed to end Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, but families are still being separated

LA Times  

Carmen Ochoa’s three children each live in a different country. Ochoa and her two eldest children claimed asylum at the border bridge from Matamoros to Brownsville, Texas, and were sent back to Mexico to await the outcome of their immigration case under President Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy. Peck said that the administration has no plans at the moment to …

Mexico sees massive increase in children near US border: UNICEF
3 years, 8 months ago

Mexico sees massive increase in children near US border: UNICEF

Al Jazeera  

Children are staying in overcrowded shelters in Mexico and more than half are without their parents, rights group says. Mexico has seen a nine-fold increase in the number of migrant children arriving since the beginning of the year, the United Nation’s child rights agency said, warning that many children are being held in overcrowded shelters near the country’s border with …

EXPLAINER: Is the US border with Mexico in crisis?
3 years, 8 months ago

EXPLAINER: Is the US border with Mexico in crisis?

Associated Press  

Nearly 19,000 children traveling alone were stopped at the Mexican border in March, smashing previous highs set during periods of heavy child migration in 2014 and 2019. Border encounters — a widely used but imperfect gauge that tells how many times U.S. authorities came across migrants — rose sharply during Donald Trump’s final months as president, from an unusually low …

Number of kids alone at border hits all-time high in March
3 years, 8 months ago

Number of kids alone at border hits all-time high in March

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March, authorities said Thursday, the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major test for President Joe Biden as he reverses many of his predecessor’s hardline immigration tactics. The huge increase in children traveling alone — some as young as 3 — and …

Almost 19,000 Migrant Children Stopped At U.S. Border in March, Most Ever In A Month
3 years, 8 months ago

Almost 19,000 Migrant Children Stopped At U.S. Border in March, Most Ever In A Month

NPR  

Almost 19,000 Migrant Children Stopped At U.S. Border in March, Most Ever In A Month Enlarge this image toggle caption Dario Lopez-Mills/AP Dario Lopez-Mills/AP The number of migrants encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border in March was the most in at least 15 years, as agents for U.S. Customs and Border Protection apprehended nearly 172,000 people, according to Biden administration officials. …

Number of child migrants crossing the border alone hits an all-time high in March
3 years, 8 months ago

Number of child migrants crossing the border alone hits an all-time high in March

LA Times  

Young unaccompanied migrants ages 3 to 9 watch television in a playpen at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection facility in Donna, Texas, on March 30. U.S. officials picked up nearly 19,000 children traveling alone across the Mexican border in March, authorities said Thursday, the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major test for President Biden as he reverses …

Why are so many migrant children going to the US?
3 years, 8 months ago

Why are so many migrant children going to the US?

Al Jazeera  

There’s an influx of children migrating through the southern border with Mexico. The United States Border Patrol estimates that up to 22,000 children could cross the border with Mexico in April. President Joe Biden promised a more humane treatment of migrants than his predecessor, but images of a crowded migrant processing centre in Donna, Texas, with thousands of children crammed …

Small Texas border town is route to US for migrant children
3 years, 8 months ago

Small Texas border town is route to US for migrant children

Associated Press  

ROMA, Texas — As darkness sets on the Rio Grande, U.S. Border Patrol agents hear pumps inflating rafts across the river in Mexico. Roma, a town of 10,000 people with historic buildings and boarded-up storefronts in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, is the latest epicenter of illegal crossings, where growing numbers of families and children are entering the United States to …

Biden Says 'Nothing Has Changed' But Child Migrants Crossing Border At Higher Pace
3 years, 8 months ago

Biden Says 'Nothing Has Changed' But Child Migrants Crossing Border At Higher Pace

NPR  

Biden Says 'Nothing Has Changed' But Child Migrants Crossing Border At Higher Pace Loading. President Biden claimed Thursday in his first press conference since taking office that "nothing has changed" compared to earlier influxes of migrants and unaccompanied children at the border. Sponsor Message U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents apprehended an average of 5,000 undocumented immigrants per day over …

US: Pentagon approves request to house migrant minors in Texas
3 years, 8 months ago

US: Pentagon approves request to house migrant minors in Texas

Al Jazeera  

US officials are scrambling to house and process an increase in unaccompanied minors crossing the southern border. The Pentagon has approved a request to house unaccompanied migrant children at two US military facilities in the southern state of Texas, amid a sharp rise in migrants arriving at the border. The request comes as President Joe Biden has faced a burgeoning …

With migrant arrests on the US-Mexico border rising, Joe Biden's administration has been left scrambling for solutions
3 years, 8 months ago

With migrant arrests on the US-Mexico border rising, Joe Biden's administration has been left scrambling for solutions

ABC  

Orbelina de Leon Lopez has never recovered from losing her daughter to a Guatemalan gang. A crisis on America's border They arrived in early March, at Mexico's northern border, but Ms de Leon Lopez and her daughters still needed help to cross into the United States. According to the Pew Research Centre, last month's arrests at the border were "far …

How Current US-Mexico Border Crisis Compares With Peak of Trump Era in 2019
3 years, 9 months ago

How Current US-Mexico Border Crisis Compares With Peak of Trump Era in 2019

News 18  

Joe Biden is not the first US president to face a growing number of migrants at the US-Mexico border — and he won’t be the last. And the number of unaccompanied children crossing the US-Mexico border in March is on pace to surpass May 2019, the highest month that year in arrests of minors, according to preliminary data reviewed by …

Photos: US faces biggest migrant surge in two decades
3 years, 9 months ago

Photos: US faces biggest migrant surge in two decades

Hindustan Times  

Photos: US faces biggest migrant surge in two decades A surge of migrants on the Southwest border between the US and Mexico has the Biden administration on the defensive. A surge of migrants on the US southwest border has the Biden administration on the defensive, with the head of Homeland Security acknowledging the depth of the problem but insisting it's …

Biden's Immigration Policy Takes Heat as Migrant Levels Soar
3 years, 9 months ago

Biden's Immigration Policy Takes Heat as Migrant Levels Soar

News 18  

US President Joe Biden faced mounting pressure Monday from Republicans over his handling of a surge in migrants — including thousands of unaccompanied children — arriving at the US-Mexican border. On January 20, his first day in office, Biden scrapped several of Trump’s contentious immigration policies, including halting new construction of a border wall and proposing legislation to create a …

Young Migrants Held By Border Patrol Far Longer Than Allowed, Document Shows
3 years, 9 months ago

Young Migrants Held By Border Patrol Far Longer Than Allowed, Document Shows

NPR  

Young Migrants Held By Border Patrol Far Longer Than Allowed, Document Shows Enlarge this image toggle caption Justin Hamel/AFP via Getty Images Justin Hamel/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. government had 4,276 unaccompanied migrant children in custody as of Sunday, according to a Department of Homeland Security document obtained by NPR. "The Border Patrol facilities have become crowded with children …

Yes, there is a rise in child migration. But is there a ‘crisis’ at the southern border?
3 years, 9 months ago

Yes, there is a rise in child migration. But is there a ‘crisis’ at the southern border?

LA Times  

A migrant family crosses the border, Feb 26 from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, into El Paso. Once again, the U.S. southern border is said to be in “crisis” after an increase in the number of children crossing clandestinely without their parents. In January and February, border authorities encountered more than 15,000 unaccompanied minors, an escalation of lone migrant kids coming to …

Soaring migration levels puts pressure on Joe Biden
3 years, 9 months ago

Soaring migration levels puts pressure on Joe Biden

Hindustan Times  

President Joe Biden faced mounting pressure Monday from Republicans over his handling of a surge in migrants -- including thousands of unaccompanied children -- arriving at the US-Mexican border. On January 20, his first day in office, Biden scrapped several of Trump's contentious immigration policies, including halting new construction of a border wall and proposing legislation to create a citizenship …

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