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The near-deportation of a solitary 11-year-old child earlier this year highlights, critics say, the backlogs and turmoil surrounding federal immigration courts. āA federal immigration judge in Houston signed a deportation order for Laura Maradiaga-Alvarado, originally from El Salvador,… Read More
The status of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program ā commonly known as Dreamers ā likely will remain in limbo until 2018, as members of Congress spar over Immigration reform and a potential government shutdown…. Read More
One of the more thoughtful deep-dives into the immigration reform issue is making the rounds via The New York Times. Written by Eduardo Porter, it is one of the few to note that U.S. immigration policy and enforcement… Read More
Remember that class-action lawsuit involving legal representation for thousands of “border kids” facing deportation? The one where a senior immigration judge named Jack Well said in a sworn deposition that children did not need legal representation and that… Read More
A powerful U.S.senator, who serves as the ranking Democrat on the Senate’s justice committee and on the body’s subcommittee on immigration, has authored a nationalĀ CNNĀ opinion piece blasting the nation’s current approach to the “border kids,” our term for… Read More
