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Tag Archives: Immigration
Breaking down the border wall after John Kelly’s comments
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly presented a more moderate vision this week for a U.S.-Mexico border wall than the one President Donald Trump had pledged during his 2016 campaign. On Wednesday, Kelly told members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus that some of Trump’s campaign immigration policies were “uninformed.” The country won’t build a wall along the entire southern ... Read More »
Border apprehensions and detentions, explained
Immigration figures released this week show the lowest number of people trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in decades. Meanwhile, deportations of people living illegally in the United States are up significantly. So are President Donald Trump’s immigration policies working or is there more behind the numbers? Ev Meade, director of the University of San Diego’s Trans-Border Institute, said ... Read More »
Deportation decline in San Diego reflects Obama policy shift
Federal data obtained by inewsource provide a glimpse into how the Obama administration’s policy shift on deportations has played out in San Diego County. Read More »
Escondido man’s immigration case gives glimpse of an alternate legal universe
An in-depth look at immigrant detention and immigration court reveals a backlogged system that some call capricious and opaque. Read More »
Citizen America: Taking the oath
Who are the 650,000 people becoming U.S. citizens every year? Read More »
ICE under fire for detaining too few immigrants
With the United States on pace to detain the fewest undocumented immigrants since 2006, a Texas congressman is accusing federal immigration officials of not enforcing the law by failing to fill the country’s 34,000 detention beds. Read More »
U.S. government holding fewer immigrants in detention
The number of immigrants being held in detention centers across the U.S. is the lowest it’s been in nearly a decade, possibly signaling a change in a federal mandate called a "bed quota." Read More »