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Kamala Harris's harsh message to Central American migrants
Jun 13, 2021 04:34Kamala Harris has recently embarked on her first international trip as Vice President. The two-day trip to Latin America was also Harris's first major effort at diplomacy after being put in charge of Central American immigration policy by President Joe Biden in late March.
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'Dangerous and unconscionable': Amnesty finds Biden is illegally expelling thousands of unaccompanied children
Jun 13, 2021 04:24A detailed new report by Amnesty International finds that the Biden administration is abusing an anti-trafficking law to forcibly expel thousands of unaccompanied Mexican children seeking asylum at the United States' southern border, often sending them back to dangerous conditions without adequately screening for threats to their safety.
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Trump officials used secret terrorism unit to question lawyers at border
May 17, 2021 10:42Following revelations two years ago by NBC 7 San Diego that some journalists and others were targeted for questioning when crossing from Tijuana, Mexico, the Donald Trump administration maintained that the incidents were limited to San Diego and a handful of U.S. citizens. But the new documents prove the operation went further — and raise questions about how many others were targeted.
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Florida governor says Biden created 'catastrophe' at US border by scrapping Trump's policies
Apr 21, 2021 04:57A Republican representative from Kansas's 1st congressional district wrote on twitter that "migrant children have been traumatized and been taken advantage of by Mexican cartels, adding, “These cartels are making hundreds of millions of dollars every day by exploiting children. Under the Biden Administration, cartels are the winners, and innocent children are the losers.”
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Biden breaks promise on refugee resettlement, imposing Trump’s “draconian” cap
Apr 18, 2021 05:08US President Joe Biden will uphold former President Donald Trump’s historically low “refugee cap” despite earlier promises to raise it drastically. Biden’s decision prolongs what Representatives Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal have decried as “the Trump Administration’s full-scale assault on refugee resettlement in the United States.”
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Rights advocates concerned over Biden push to increase militarization of borders in Central America
Apr 15, 2021 15:06Human rights defenders have expressed concern after the Biden administration announced it reached agreements with Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala for those countries to boost their deployments of military forces to stop the flow of migrants trying to make their way to the United States.
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US Customs and border protection plans vast expansion of tech-based surveillance (3)
Apr 14, 2021 09:59US President Joe Biden might not be building a physical border wall, but he is continuing to expand an infrastructure designed to deter migrants from crossing into the U.S. Though he has distanced himself from Donald Trump’s immigration policy, the Biden administration’s plan would see the U.S. government lean into its reliance on technology at the southern border, where Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is currently expanding one of the most ambitious surveillance systems ever created.
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As Biden restricts media access, photos show children in crowded 'border jails'
Apr 01, 2021 08:13Photos of children packed into makeshift detention centers highlight the need for press access to such centers so people can see the 'inhumanity' in U.S. immigration policy.
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More child migrants are arriving alone in Spain’s holiday islands than ever before
Feb 26, 2021 05:45Spain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said around 23,000 migrants arrived in the Canary Islands from Africa in 2020 – more than seven times the number of arrivals in 2019.
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From concentration camps to overflow facilities: With Biden in charge, media forgets kids in cages
Feb 14, 2021 06:40The Biden administration is opening a new child prison along the United States-Mexico border. The center, located in Carrizo Springs, around 100 miles southwest of San Antonio, is being specifically built for unaccompanied migrant children attempting to cross the border and will hold around 700 people when finished, although plans noted it will be expanded if the government deems it necessary.