Afghan citizens are being relocated to Maine after being evacuated from their home country following the Taliban takeover last month.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Path to citizenship should be part of budget bill
Our broken immigration system unjustly punishes families with members who don’t have legal status.
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Posted inNation & World, News
Supreme Court orders ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy reinstated
The high court refused to block a lower court ruling ordering the administration to reinstate the Trump-era program that forces people to wait in Mexico while seeking asylum in the U.S.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: We can’t keep treating Haiti’s cycle of trauma with Band-Aid solutions
The poverty, corruption and instability there can be alleviated only if stakeholders in the recovery effort remain involved after the dead are buried.
Posted inNation & World, News
July was busiest month for illegal border crossings in 21 years, data show
Biden administration officials had predicted that the volume of people crossing the border would decline with the summer heat.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Getting information right is crucial to solving the border crisis
We must counter smugglers’ disinformation on border security, as well as misleading narratives that Russia places in Spanish-language media.
Posted inNation & World, News
ACLU and Biden administration to face off over migrant family expulsions
The ACLU had paused its lawsuit for months to allow a reversal on the Trump administration’s border policies, but both sides say negotiations have reached an ‘impasse.’
Posted inNation & World
Biden resumes fast-track deportation flights for migrant families
But many of them were unable to travel Friday after testing positive for COVID-19, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Kamala Harris releases strategy to tackle Central American migration’s root causes
The plan supports short-term relief for migration pressures like extreme weather while committing sustained attention to long-term motivations for people to leave their countries.
Posted inNation & World
Border apprehensions rose in June amid concerns for migrant safety
A total of 188,829 people were taken into custody last month, which was a 5% increase from May.