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Immigrants walk into a building at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas.

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Parents Were 'Coerced' To Waive Reunification Rights With Children, Complaint Says

9:39pm August 23, 2018

by Sasha Ingber

Lawyers for immigrants filed a complaint on Thursday with Homeland Security. They contend that parents, amid cruel treatment, did not understand the forms they were being forced to sign.

GOP Senate candidate Kelli Ward waves to volunteers and voters as she walks past a cardboard cut-out of President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump during the Sun Lakes Republican Club meeting in Sun Lakes, Ariz., on May 8. She's accused front-run

Politics & Government

Arizona GOP Senate Candidates Embrace Trump In Primary. But What Comes Next?

5:00am August 23, 2018

by Bret Jaspers

GOP candidates are trying to prove they're with President Trump on immigration. But Arizona's late primary means little time to shift to the general election, when Democrats hope to flip the seat.

President Trump with Customs and Border Patrol agent Adrian Anzaldua, whom he praised for finding around 80 immigrants in a tractor-trailer.

Politics & Government

Trump Calls ICE Opponents 'Big Loudmouths,' Praises Agents As 'Great Patriots'

7:52pm August 20, 2018

by Brian Naylor

At a White House ceremony, the president also asked an agent, Adrian Anzaldua, who discovered a tractor-trailer containing about 80 immigrants, to speak. "He speaks perfect English," Trump noted.

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Greensboro Inspectors Condemn Apartment Complex Where Refugee Children Died

1:32pm August 15, 2018

by Sean Bueter

The City of Greensboro is condemning the apartment complex where five children died in a fire earlier this year after finding hundreds of code violations had still not been resolved.

Australian Lawmaker Refers To 'Final Solution' In Push For Muslim Immigration Ban

7:34am August 15, 2018

by Scott Neuman

In his maiden speech, newly minted Sen. Fraser Anning of the far-right Katter's Australian Party called for a revival of long-rescinded racially based immigration policies.

U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw, shown in July, appears pleased with the Trump administration's framework for reuniting separated families, presented on Friday.

National

Judge Pleased With Government Effort But Hundreds Of Children Still In Custody

8:32pm August 10, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

About 550 immigrant children between the ages of 5 and 17 are still separated from their families. The government has presented a framework that outlines steps to reunite them.

After Saudi airstrikes in Sanaa, Yemen in 2015, people carry the body of a child uncovered from under the rubble. The United Nations has declared Yemen the world's worst humanitarian crisis. When Yemen's war began, Nageeb Alomari decided to bring his wife

A Yemeni-American Wanted To Bring His Family Home. Then Came The Travel Ban.

4:25pm August 10, 2018

by Kelly McEvers

Nageeb Alomari is an American citizen from Yemen. When the civil war started there, Alomari decided to bring his wife and daughters to the U.S. But then President Trump imposed the travel ban.

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Amalija and Viktor Knavs, parents of first lady Melania Trump, walk on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, in June 2017.

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First Lady's Parents Become U.S. Citizens Thanks To 'Chain Migration'

2:25am August 10, 2018

by Scott Neuman

Melania Trump's Slovenian-born parents, Amalija and Viktor Knavs, were sworn-in at a private ceremony in Manhattan on Thursday.

President Trump in January 2018. On Friday, a federal judge ruled the administration has not provided adequate justification for ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Judge Orders Trump Administration To Fully Restore DACA

10:52pm August 03, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

It's the third federal court to rule that the government had failed to justify its decision to end the program. The administration has 20 days to appeal, before immigrant protections are reinstated.

Raymondville officials are counting on the new detention facility and operator Management and Training Corp. to bring life back to its streets.

As Private ICE Lockups Grow, Towns Could See Economic Boon

2:58pm August 03, 2018

With the promise of good-paying jobs, Raymondville, Texas, has welcomed an immigration detention center that rose from the ashes of a facility once plagued by allegations of abuse.

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