A federal appeals court on Friday allowed border authorities to use an emergency policy under former President Donald Trump to quickly return unaccompanied migrant children apprehended at the US-Mexico border without an asylum interview or a court hearing.
Immigrant children arriving at the United States-Mexico border from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador have more than a 95 percent chance of remaining in the U.S. after their arrival, according to newly released data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee has ordered the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to free migrant children held at the country's three family detention centers for more than 20 days.
A Department of Health and Human Services study found 22,798 unaccompanied children were housed with parents, aunts, uncles, or other close relatives between September 2015 and February 2016, nearly equaling the total of the previous 12-month period.
A 15-month investigation conducted by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office found one Long Island School District denied enrollment to unaccompanied immigrant students.
The Obama administration is preparing to house over 5,000 undocumented children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border last month, mainly in search of refuge from a spike of violence taking place in Central America.
Donald Trump is wrong about immigrants, and there's proof. New research demonstrates that immigrant youth are less likely than their U.S.-born counterparts to participate in delinquent behaviors and use/abuse marijuana and other illegal drugs. Additionally, they only begin to engage in these behaviors when assimilating.
Central Americans who reside in the U.S. legally will be able to bring family members to the U.S. Recently, the Obama Administration introduced a new program that will help Central Americans reunite with family members in the U.
Immigrant children, regardless of their ethnic and racial background, are less physically active than U.S.-born white children, according to a study from Rice University's study.
After seeing an influx of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children, the federal government has started placing a majority of the 57,000 with family or friends.
Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina said if the U.S. wants to solve the current border crisis it should give $2 billion in funding to Central American nations "to attack the root of the problem."
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday during a visit to Iowa that he is open to reviewing requests to accept unaccompanied immigrant children into his state.
Vargas, who is known for his coverage of the Virgina Tech shootings and for revealing his identity as an undocumented Filipino immigrant -- who moved to California at the age of 12 -- has been detained in the border town of McAllen in Texas.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Friday visited the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, which opened in Artesia, New Mexico, on June 27 but has recently been used to house about 400 immigrants.
With over 5 million unemployed in Spain, the economic crisis has hit homeowners particularly hard -which is nearly everyone. Spain has the highest rate of home ownership in the European Union, as high as 85 percent, and that's greatly due to decades-long aggressive governmental promotion of home ownership and borrowing.
More than any others, children in immigrant households are the least likely to enroll their children in federal and state preschool programs, due mainly to language and literacy barriers.
More than 60,000 children arrive in the United States from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico -- and they make the voyage alone, without their parents. Many children are in search of their parents, who may be undocumented, unlisted, and working to send funds back to their home countries. Some other children travel to the United States so that they can escape homes foreboding lives thrashed with gang violence.
