Tag: <span>Immigration</span>

Biden Administration Expands Title 42 Authority

HOUSTON — The Biden administration announced Thursday it is expanding its authority under Title 42 — a public health law used to rapidly expel migrants who cross land borders — […] Read More >

Title 42 Remains, For Now: How We Got Here and What’s Next

The Supreme Court said Dec. 27 that Title 42 — a set of federal orders elaborated to quickly expel migrants at the border for public health reasons — will remain […] Read More >

The murder trial of a U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of shooting across the Arizona-Mexico border begins today

TODAY IN LATIN AMERICA Opening statements for the murder trial of a U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of shooting across the Arizona-Mexico border and killing a Mexican teenager in 2012 […] Read More >

Reunification with Family in US is Bittersweet for Child Migrants

This article was originally published in Civic Ideas on April 18, 2016. NEW YORK — It is an uplifting image: a child seeing her mother for the first time after […] Read More >

Child Migrants Face Challenges, But Are Kids Again on the Soccer Field

This article was originally published in Civic Ideas on February 17, 2016, and is the second in a two-part series. NEW YORK — On artificial turf at the foot of […] Read More >

Appeals Court Upholds Injunction Against Obama Immigration Order

Top Story — A federal appeals panel on Tuesday barred an executive order by President Barack Obama granting deportation protection and expanded rights to undocumented immigrants from taking immediate effect. […] Read More >

Great Reads Round-Up: March 30-April 5

The Rookie and the Zetas: How the Feds Took Down a Drug Cartel’s Horse-Racing Empire Joe Tone. Dallas Observer. April 1 2015. (6,804 words) The Treviño brothers led diametrically opposed […] Read More >

Obama Reluctantly Complies With Judge’s Injunction on Immigration Order

Top Story — President Barack Obama was forced to suspend on Tuesday the first phase of his executive order on immigration, which would have gone into effect Wednesday, after a […] Read More >

Transcript: Obama’s Statement to the Press Over Immigration Ruling

On Tuesday, President Barack Obama was forced to suspend the first phase of his executive order on immigration, which would have gone into effect Wednesday, after a Texas federal judge […] Read More >

Great Reads Round-Up: Feb. 9-15

Homeward Brooke Jarvis. The California Sunday Magazine. February 12, 2015. When a Amazonian tribe found itself struggling against the oil interests encroaching on its land, the tribe’s leaders came up […] Read More >