ICE officials are preparing for what may be the largest immigration sweep under President Obama. The report of month-long raids come a week after U.S. Customs and Border Protection data revealed nearly 60,000 children crossed the U.S. Mexico border between October 2015 and March 2016.
Immigration raids have brought fear and unrest to undocumented immigrant communities, but a new study finds they may also have devastating medical consequences.
Immigration rights activists held a rally in California on Tuesday in protest against the White House deportation raids targeting Central American families.
The immigration issue in the U.S. has been in the center of talks according to Fox News Latino. The most recent development in the issue is that women and children are reportedly being detained too long than the law allows.
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Jan. 11 broke with the Obama administration and criticized the recent raids carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which she said worsened an already tense situation.
Democrat Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders recently stood up for undocumented immigrants in their call to stop immigration raids, which are currently being held since New Year's weekend in light of the orders from the Obama administration to finally deport and detain U.S. illegal immigrants.
In light of yet another surge of undocumented minors entering the U.S. borders from Central America through the southern Mexico borders, the Obama Administration has orchestrated an initial plan to respond to the growing number of unaccompanied children.