TPS extension for Haitians offers short-term relief
HIAS.org (May 22, 2017)
Six-month extension of protected status for Haitians announced by DHS, but future reconsideration of status is unclear.
Read the StoryChildren of the Americas: A year after crossing illegally into the U.S.
Miami Herald (March 6, 2015)
This article looks into the lives of child immigrants, as well as associated data and statistics, one year after the massive incoming of unaccompanied children.
Read the ArticleChild migrants face new crisis: Uneven justice. Children without lawyers, or in particular states, are much more likely to face removal orders, a POLITICO analysis finds.
Politico (March 5, 2015)
A POLITICO analysis of government data shows that fully 88 percent of the removal orders issued since July have gone to children without an attorney. What’s more, a juvenile assigned to judges in Texas, North Carolina and Georgia in the past 16 months was at least three times more likely to receive such an order than a child in California, Florida or New York.
Review AnalysisQ&A: The Refugee Children—Where Will They Go To School?
The Brooklyn Ink (December 17, 2014)
A Q&A about immigrant children who will be entering in to the school system in New York.
Read ArticleOpinion: Why Isn’t President Obama Protecting Refugee Children With A Stroke Of His Pen?
Fox News (December 5, 2014)
This opinion piece criticizing President Obama’s lack of response in addressing, and particularly, protecting the immigrant children who have flooded into the country, causing what is considered to be an immigration crisis.
Read ArticleThis is Our Home
The Texas Observer (August, 24, 2014)
Part two of a series titled “Beyond the Border”. This segment titled “This is Our Home” discusses the experiences of a rancher who lives close to an immigration checkpoint and has found bodies, clothing, food, and other items of immigrants who were trying to make it through Brooks County, TX without being caught.
Watch the VideoInto the wilderness
The Texas Observer (August 24, 2014)
Part one of a series “Beyond the Border”. This segment titled, “Into the Wilderness”, discusses the experiences of one immigrant by the name of Exelina, and also presents data associated with the time that Exelina was migrating to the U.S.
Watch the videoCivil rights groups sue to bar expedited deportations of Central American families
The Washington Post (August 22, 2014)
Civil rights group files a lawsuit asking a federal court to stop the Obama administration from expediting families being held in Artesia, NM. The 60-page legal complaint, on behalf of seven women and three children at the facility in Artesia, N.M., alleges that the Department of Homeland Security has denied due process rights to the families as it seeks to deport the hundreds of undocumented immigrants being housed there.
Read the ArticleUndocumented and Underage: The Crisis of Migrant Children
Vice News (August 13, 2014)
This is a twelve-minute video that shows VICE News traveling to the border between Texas and Tamaulipas to speak to people who have been detained on both sides of the border. They told us about their reasons for crossing the border, how they were detained, what their stay was like inside the detention centers, their plans for the future, and their fears.
Watch the VideoBrutality and ‘The Beast’: why child migration to U.S. is slowing down
Yahoo! (August 11, 2014)
This article discusses the reasons behind the number of child migrants has fallen sharply. They include: tighter border policing, raids on the famously dangerous Bestia, road checkpoints, horror tales told by deportees who grappled with drug gangs on the way north, a U.S.-funded advertising blitz on the dangers of the journey, and the high-profile arrests of several human smugglers, or coyotes.
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