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'Vulnerable' Asylum Seekers Are Supposed to Be Able to Stay in the U.S.—But Critically Ill Migrants Are Still Being Sent Back to Mexico
December 20, 2019
Credit: TIME
t was supposed to be a journey that would save her life, when U.S. immigration officials brought a 7-year-old girl named Ajlee from an asylum-seekers’ camp in the Mexican border city of Matamoros to a…
Sick Migrant Children Are at the Whims of U.S. Border Guards
December 19, 2019
Credit: The Atlantic
Until this week, a 7-year-old Honduran girl had been living at a makeshift refugee camp in Matamoros, Mexico, with an infected opening in her groin known as a fistula—an aperture through which excreme…
U.S. Lawyers Volunteer Legal Aid to Migrants Living on Streets in Mexico
September 17, 2019
Credit: Valley Central
MATAMOROS, MEXICO (Border Report) — Jodi Goodwin held a brisk pace as she pulled a red wagon filled with documents and office supplies and led a group of lawyers on Saturday across the Gateway Interna…
Judge halted deportation
August 10, 2019
A federal judge on Thursday ordered an immigrant mother and daughter brought back to the United States after learning during a court hearing that the government had put them on a deportation flight to…
Kim Hunter: This is Real Time Illustration of Overlapping Immigration System Failures
March 29, 2019
The situation for the Liberian community in the U.S. – after a last-minute extension to April 1, 2020, for the termination of their legal status – is a real-time illustration of three overlapping fail…
Deported from the US to a Somali danger zone
July 4, 2018
Credit: BBC
The sun was burning brightly when Ahmed arrived in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, on a deportation flight from the US earlier this year. The tropical trees swayed slowly in the warm wind, oblivious to …
Students Help Block Deportaion of 92 Somalis
May 28, 2018
Credit: ISSUU
Students in the James H. Binger Center for New Americans and recent Law School graduates played key roles in a class action litigation effort that won a court order on Dec. 19, 2017, temporarily block…