asylum seekers

An asylum-seeker rests outside El Chaparral port of entry while he waits for his turn to present himself to U.S. border authorities to request asylum, in Tijuana, Mexico, last month. A federal appeals court has granted the Trump administration's request t

Appeals Court Rules Trump Administration Can Keep Sending Asylum-Seekers To Mexico

4:34am May 08, 2019

A Ninth Circuit panel overturned a lower court's injunction on the administration's policy requiring asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico as they await court proceedings in the U.S.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr decided on Tuesday that asylum-seekers who clear a "credible fear" interview and are facing removal don't have the right to be released on bond by an immigration court judge while their cases are pending.

AG Barr Orders Immigration Judges To Stop Releasing Asylum-Seekers On Bail

6:21pm April 17, 2019

The ruling by the attorney general is the latest step by the Trump administration designed to discourage asylum-seekers from coming to the U.S.

Juan Carlos Perla of El Salvador kisses his 10-month-old son, Joshua, inside a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Mexico, where they await their asylum hearing in San Diego.

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Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration Policy Of Sending Asylum Seekers To Mexico

9:42pm April 08, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

The administration had planned to expand the program. Now it has to first defend the policy in court.

Good Neighbor Settlement House in Brownsville, Texas, is helping recently released migrants by offering them a meal, shower and some new clothes before journeying up north to await their day in immigration court.

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Shelters And City Governments Scramble To Help Migrants In The Rio Grande Valley

8:24am April 07, 2019

by Reynaldo Leanos Jr.

The mayor of Brownsville, Texas, was told to expect close to 6,000 migrants released in the Rio Grande Valley this week. A local shelter has been taking in hundreds each day.

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Migrants trudge along the border fence to a waiting bus after turning themselves in to the Border Patrol at the U.S.-Mexico border near El Paso, Texas.

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A Surge Of Migrants Strains Border Patrol As El Paso Becomes Latest Hot Spot

10:24am March 26, 2019

by John Burnett

The Border Patrol is bringing in more agents and asking the Pentagon for help as thousands of migrants continue to cross the U.S.-Mexico border each day.

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A line of migrants recently released by U.S. immigration authorities waits to check in at the Catholic Charities shelter in McAllen, Texas.

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Border Patrol Starts Releasing Asylum-Seeking Migrants To South Texas Streets

9:43pm March 20, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

The move is an apparent return by the government to the practice President Trump has called "catch and release" and promised to end when he was a presidential candidate.

Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, 18, addresses the media during a news conference at a refugee resettling agency in Toronto on Jan. 15. She pledged to "work in support of freedom for women around the world, the same freedom I experienced on the first day I arrived

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Saudi Kingdom Tries To Prevent More Women From Fleeing

8:49pm March 13, 2019

by Deborah Amos

The case of an 18-year-old refugee in Canada will embolden other Saudi women to follow suit, experts say. Saudi officials have launched a campaign to stop that from happening.

In late January, Carlos Catarldo Gomez of Honduras was the first person returned to Mexico to wait for his asylum trial date. The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that this program, dubbed 'Migrant Protection Protocols,' will expand from San Dieg

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'Remain In Mexico' Immigration Policy Expands, But Slowly

5:10pm March 12, 2019

by Joel Rose

The Trump administration is expanding a hard-line immigration policy that forces asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for their day in immigration court. But the program itself faces a legal challenge.

A performer who goes by Beatrix Lestrange organized and hosted the No Border Wall Protest Drag Show in Brownsville, Texas.

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Texas 'Dragtavist' Drag Queens Stage Border Wall Protest

10:33am February 26, 2019

by Reynaldo Leaños Jr.

"We'll try to bring joy, positivity, beauty, drag, culture to whatever this is," Beatrix Lestrange said, pointing to the section of the border fence directly behind her.

A young man and a little girl look at the border fence from Playas de Tijuana, Mexico. Photojournalist Ariana Drehsler has been covering the caravan of migrants for weeks. In December, Customs and Border Protection agents began pulling her over for questi

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Journalists, Lawyers, Volunteers Face Increased Scrutiny By Border Agents

2:45pm February 15, 2019

by Max Rivlin-Nadler

At the San Diego-Tijuana border, journalists covering the asylum-seekers are being pulled into questioning by customs and border agents. Lawyers and volunteers are facing the same scrutiny.