If upheld, a federal court ruling would solidify birthright citizenship as the law of the land, and overturn more than a century of federal refusal to grant American Samoans citizenship status.
The Gambia’s relationship with the European Union could be shaken by the immigration question.
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The Gambia’s agreement with the European Union to return immigrants to the country is causing the government problems at home.
Australia has changed the way it decides whether children with Down syndrome, and other conditions, can migrate permanently to Australia. But the changes don’t go far enough.
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The U.S-Mexico border runs through Native American territories. A wall would further divide these communities, separating children from schools, farmers from water and families from each other.
A room inside Brook House immigration removal centre near Gatwick.
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Changes to immigration rules have left migrants without family and friends in the UK trapped in immigration detention – despite being granted bail.
Australia could be breaching its international legal obligations if it is not fairly assessing asylum seekers who apply for protection at customs.
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Australia’s immigration department doesn’t keep a record of the number of people applying for asylum at airports. This means there is no oversight over the treatment of those seeking protection.
Central American migrants playing soccer at a temporary shelter in Tijuana.
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The UK government presents itself as a pioneer in tackling modern slavery, but it doesn’t allow victims to remain legally in the UK. Time is apt for the system to be overhauled.
A protest by EU citizens outsie parliament in 2017.
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Trump hopes migrants won’t come if they know their children will be taken away. That grim logic ignores the inescapable dangers that drive thousands of Central Americans to flee their homes each year.
Detainees sleep in a holding cell at a processing facility in Brownsville, Texas.
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Interviews with hundreds of unaccompanied minors in Los Angeles reveal that relationships with US sponsors can be complicated.
Children are often sad when separated from their parents for a short time, but the effects are pronounced if the separation is long.
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Kids often experience anxiety when separated from parents for short periods. Longer separations, happening with some immigrant children, is a different matter, a leading child psychiatrist explains.
With heroism, comes citizenship.
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Even if their partners or children are British, non-European men with precarious immigration status face potentially permanent separations from their families.
U.S. immigration law has a complicated history with keeping families together.
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