The confusion helped fuel the debacle at the border, where nearly 3,000 children were removed from their parents.
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Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Immigrant families suffering under President Trump’s policy of fear
Representatives in Congress should stop U.S. immigration officials from engaging in ethnic cleansing and ruining young lives.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: U.S. retreats amid misery of global refugee crisis
By continuing to slash the number of people we’ll take in, we’re abdicating our duty as a rich and powerful nation and a moral beacon.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: With migrants, Trump once again chooses cruelty
Detaining families indefinitely is no improvement over separating parents from children.
Posted inNation & World, News
Tent shelter for children to be expanded, extended
The Texas facility will stay open through the end of the year and add more than 3,200 beds.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: U.S. must speed up refugee reviews for Iraqis who aided our troops in war
A huge backlog is stalling Iraqis who risked their lives and those of their families to help Americans in a time of need.
Posted inNation & World
Mollie Tibbetts’ father tells politicians: Shut up
In an opinion column in the Des Moines Register, the father of the slain college student says not to ‘appropriate Mollie’s soul in advancing views she believed were profoundly racist.”
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Canadian candidate uses anti-immigration crusade to upend party system
Maxime Bernier reinvents himself as the nation’s leading critic of the ‘extreme multiculturalism and cult of diversity.’
Posted inNation & World, Politics
U.S. denies passports, questions citizenship of Americans on the border
In some cases, passport applicants with official U.S. birth certificates are being jailed in immigration detention centers and entered into deportation proceedings.
Posted inNation & World, News
Federal judge extends halt on deportations of separated families
Judge Dana Sabraw says that ‘hasty’ deportation of children after reunification with their parents deprives them of their right to seek asylum.