This article details the stories of children and adults that are in the El Chaparral migrant camp in Tijuana, Mexico and sheds light on what safety and learning look like for the children that live in this camp.
Undocumented migrant workers in the United States are still struggling to receive adequate protection against COVID-19. Examples of how they have not and are still not protected include work conditions that do not allow for social distancing, lack of access to personal protective equipment, not having access to COVID-19 testing, and now not being prioritized for vaccinations.
Three individuals share their stories and explain their decision to try and seek asylum in the United States. The asylum seekers that were interviewed are from Guatemala, Cameroon, and Cuba.
This article explores the difficulties that immigrant parents are experiencing trying to locate their children that are currently in custody in the United States as well as the process that some parents have had to go through to reunite with their children.
Migrant families that have entered the United States are being sent to Mexico late at night. Many are being sent back under Title 42, a Trump-era order that the Biden administration is still using.
President Biden has completed his first 100 days in office and this article takes an in-depth look into what his administration has changed and has still yet to change in regard to U.S. immigration policy.
The Biden administration recently announced that is has canceled border wall projects that were being funded by funds that were originally intended for the Department of Defense.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has announced that families separated at the border will be allowed to decide whether to reunite in their home countries or the U.S. Should they decide to reunify in the U.S., legal pathways to remain here and providing resources for transportation, healthcare, and mental health services will be explored.
The number of migrant children in custody in the United States has more than doubled since this time last year, testing the Biden administration’s promise for a more humane immigration policy approach. Despite these challenges, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has said that the administration plans to “re-engineer” the process for handling unaccompanied children to make it more efficient.
7-year-old Paisley has become an unlikely activist for refugees after reading a story about them from the Bible. At just 6-years-old she collected almost 300 stuffed animals, delivered toiletries and supplies, and raised $50,000 to open a school for refugee children – and she is still on a mission to help. She has pledged to sleep outside of her house every night until all children separated from their parents at the border are reunited. “I’m never gonna stop changing the world…I’m gonna do it forever,” Paisley says.
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