If a proposed law passes, this group of immigrants apprehended at the U.S. border near Mission, Texas, would be called ‘noncitizens,’ not ‘aliens.’
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Words matter, writes an immigration scholar. It is far easier to deny the humanity of an ‘alien’ than to do so for a ‘noncitizen.’
An undocumented immigrant who has lived in the U.S. for 28 years shows a picture of her grandchild and son, who was deported under Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy in 2017.
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Trump made three anti-immigration pledges in 2016: ban Muslims, build a wall and enforce all immigration laws. Four years on, a migration scholar examines his record – and its effect on the country.
Dawn Wooten, left, a nurse at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga., speaks at a news conference in Atlanta protesting conditions at the immigration centre.
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The recent allegations against an ICE facility in the U.S. are part of a long history of forced sterilizations of Indigenous, Latina and Black women.
Some colleges may have to scramble to make plans to keep international students enrolled.
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A new immigration rule may force some international students to leave the country.
Theo Lacy Facility in Orange, California.
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Between 1983 and 2013, the number of immigrants detained in rural county jails has increased.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer checks migrants’ documents.
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Many want to come to the United States, as an asylee, a migrant or a citizen. But those journeys have become more complicated.
Like making applicants wait in Mexico, fees could discourage asylum seekers.
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Fees for everything from green cards to naturalization are not only common, but increasingly costly and mandatory.
Polls show that Americans feel more welcoming toward immigrants than they have in the past.
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Americans have never felt warmer toward immigrants, nor have they ever been more supportive of immigration.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer looks on during an operation in Escondido, California.
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Data released under FOIA shows that ICE is encountering more US citizens and more women.
Entering a tent at the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Florida.
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Children can be especially vulnerable to being wrongly subjected to immigration enforcement actions.
Asylum seekers, lining up in Tijuana in 2018.
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Only three countries charge people who seek asylum fees. The rationale for not doing that is clear.
One of the Ohio city’s many immigrant-owned restaurants.
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Local policies can help immigrants get settled, but there is no way to protect newcomers from national policies or politics.
Many of these female asylum-seekers have already been abused before they cross the border.
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Reported abuses include serving moldy bread, delaying medical care and subjecting detainees to sexual harassment, sexual assault and bullying.
Protesters depicting detainees of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Alleged ‘enemy combatants’ held at Guantánamo Bay who went on hunger strikes to protest their indefinite detention were force-fed by the US military. Today, ICE is force-feeding immigrant detainees.
Father and son reunited after being detained in Texas.
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A record number of immigrant children are being detained in the US. Here’s what you need to know.
Protestors block entrance Immigration and Customs Enforcement offices.
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It’s more than just a slogan. For community organizers, ‘Abolish ICE’ represents the first step to a world without immigrant detention or prisons.
A mother and daughter reunited after their separation in late May.
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History shows that the US court system isn’t sympathetic to undocumented migrants when it comes to parental rights.
Students and community activists at Northeastern University called on the school to nix an ICE contract.
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Even when federal contractors stir public outrage, the government probably should be under fire.
Javier Garrido Martinez holds his four-year-old son during a news conference in New York on July 11, 2018. The pair were reunited after being separated for almost two months when authorities stopped them at the U.S. southern border.
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The U.S. immigration detention system under Donald Trump is abusive, racist, sexist and haphazardly implemented, all designed to terrorize people attempting to exercise their right to seek asylum.
Protesters hold up signs outside of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office.
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An immigration expert breaks through the alphabet soup of federal agencies responsible for enforcing immigration laws.