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Attacked in Mexico, Returned to Mexico: Trump Policy Ignores Danger to Asylum-Seekers

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Attacked in Mexico, Returned to Mexico: Trump Policy Ignores Danger to Asylum-Seekers

Gus Bova, The Observer (September 30, 2019)

Under the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), the Trump administration has returned more than 48,000 asylum-seekers since January to await their court dates in Mexico, a country where kidnapping and assault of migrants is rampant. Over the course of two months, the Observer has uncovered multiple stories showing that the program includes no meaningful screening for even the most obvious threats to migrants’ safety and lives.

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Immigrants’ Deportations, Local Crime and Police Effectiveness

By | Deportation, Immigrant Families Research, Immigration Enforcement, Research, Research Highlight

Immigrants’ Deportations, Local Crime and Police Effectiveness

Annie Laurie Hines & Giovanni Peri, IZA Institute of Labor Economics (June 2019)

This paper examines the relationship between deportations and crime rates in localities that rolled out Secure Communities at some point since its inception in 2008, finding no evidence that Secure Communities increased polices effectiveness.

Webinar: Diving Into Immigration Law: Immigration Law 101 Part 1

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Webinar: Diving Into Immigration Law: Immigration Law 101 Part 1

Immigrant Legal Resource Center (October 30, 2019)

This is part one of a two-part series that will provide a basic framework for diving into immigration law. They will provide a basic framework where they will discuss the various agencies involved in immigration law, acronyms, the structure of the Act, and an overview of affirmative applications and removal proceedings. They will also discuss admission and selected grounds of inadmissability and deportability.

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27th Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE) Conference

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27th Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education (RECE) Conference

New Mexico State University (October 31 – November 5, 2019)

This conference will focus on presentations that point to new directions in research, policy, and practice in early education and care. THe topics will emphasize the intersections of theory, collective activism, and reconceptualizing practices in work with children, families, and communities. Within this larger framework, this year’s theme is Border/lands and (Be)longings.

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Family Separation at Border is ‘Child Abuse,’ ACLU Tells Court

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Family Separation at Border is ‘Child Abuse,’ ACLU Tells Court

Hannah Albarazi, Law 360 (September 21, 2019)

The American Civil Liberties Union on Friday urged a California federal judge to rule that U.S. immigration officials are illegally separating parents from their children based on criminal histories instead of separating families only when a parent is deemed unfit or a danger to their child, saying its present policy is tantamount to “child abuse.”

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Migrant Dad Separated from His 3-Year-Old Son for 6 Months over DNA Test

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Migrant Dad Separated from His 3-Year-Old Son for 6 Months over DNA Test

Manuel Bojorquez, CBS Evening News (September 18, 2019)

At the McAllen Border Patrol processing center, officers accused a man of not being the father because his last name was not on the boy’s birth certificate. He said U.S. Customs and Border Protection told him he’d get his son back if he said he wasn’t the father. Confused, he agreed.

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Children Not Exempt from Trump’s Toughest Asylum Policy and Will be Turned Back, Official Say

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Children Not Exempt from Trump’s Toughest Asylum Policy and Will be Turned Back, Official Say

CNBC (September 13, 2019)

Following the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the Trump administration to go forward with its toughest asylum policy to date, officials from the Department of Justice and Homeland Security on Friday detailed how they would begin enforcement, including by turning back children who arrive at the southern border without their parents.

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