Posted on · As the coronavirus starts to spread in Houston-area migrant shelters, attorneys and advocates say kids need to be rapidly reunited with family members in the United States and released from detention.
Posted on · At least three ICE employees have tested positive for COVID-19 at two different Houston-area immigrant detention centers. Health experts and advocates say it’s just a matter of time until this becomes a full-fledged outbreak in facilities known for their substandard health care.
Posted on · Immigration lawyers worry the disease could be quickly transmitted throughout the detention facility.
Posted on · Attorney Kathryn Karam explains the unique hurdles performers, artists, and athletes have to clear to come perform in the United States.
Posted on · The high court will allow the Trump administration's "Remain in Mexico" policy to stand across the entire southern border. The decision marks another immigration victory for the White House.
Posted on · Hundreds of asylum-seekers are not getting a chance to make their case in U.S. immigration court. Instead, the migrants are put on planes to Guatemala and told to ask for asylum there.
Posted on · A federal appeals court has temporarily halted a major Trump administration policy to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through U.S. immigration courts.
Posted on · Harris County is moving forward with plans to create the state's first ever county-funded deportation defense program.
Posted on · Research highlights why cities like Houston could face an undercount
Posted on · The Trump administration is transferring $3.8 billion in recently passed military funding to finance construction of the president's long-sought U.S.-Mexico border wall.
Posted on · The Trump administration has expanded its travel ban to six more countries, including Nigeria -- the largest economy in Africa. While Nigerian students and travelers are still welcome to visit -- it’s family members immigrating to the U.S. who are blocked from coming here.
Posted on · Since September 2018, at least seven children have died in Customs and Border Protection custody, including three from complications from the flu.
Posted on · Footage from a privately run immigration detention center in California shows eight men linking arms in a hunger strike. Officers responded with pepper spray, saying the men were inciting "rebellion."
Posted on · As the Trump administration further limits access to asylum, immigration attorneys are pursuing two major alternatives: withholding of removal and Convention Against Torture.
Posted on · New naturalization numbers are in, as the administration considers a 61% hike in citizenship fees.