Tag: immigration reform

US House Drops Border-Crisis Bill

BREAKING NEWS: The U.S. House of representatives has dropped a bill that would have provided some $659 million in funding to address the 60,000 unaccompanied children that have arrived on the southwest border. The Huffington Post noted that… Read More

D.C. Media Notes Children Representation Crisis

The Washington D.C. ABC News affiliate is picking up the crisis at the border, with some fairly in-depth information on the legal representation aspect of the ongoing border crisis of unaccompanied children seeking refuge in the U.S. Says… Read More

Finally: Capacity Cited In Immigration Courts Crisis

For the ā€œabout timeā€ file, discussion of the ongoing crisis of unaccompanied Central American children seeking refuge in the U.S. is moving beyond theories and finger-pointing to address the capacity issue. And that issue is that there’s not… Read More

WaPo: Obama Admin. Was Warned Of Border-Children Crisis

Top officials at the White House and the State Department had been warned repeatedly of the potential for a further explosion in the number of migrant children since the crisis began escalating two years ago, according to former… Read More