Whistleblowers detailed how migrant kids housed in one of the Biden administration's largest migrant shelters in Texas are experiencing poor hygiene care.
Hopes were crushed when some illegal migrants were deported back to Mexico after spending most of their savings to pay human smugglers to bring them to the U.S.
Immigration reform has become on of the most highly visible talking points for the upcoming presidential election, but that debate focuses on future political policies as promised by our current candidates. In the meantime, the current administration has taken action in the 11th hour to make good on President Obama's long-held vows to assist immigrants seeking safety from persecution in their Central American homelands.
The number of children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, either unaccompanied or with guardians, increased drastically over a six-month period beginning in October 2015. As one U.S. Customs and Border Protection official warns, the influx of newcomers may increase throughout the summer.
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.
Human Rights Watch filed an amicus brief in a federal appeals court accusing the U.S. government of denying migrant children the right to legal representation in immigration court where they faced deportation.
A new report shows that after tens of thousands of young migrants illegally crossed the southern border in a desperate attempt to escape violence in Central America, some were then placed in the hands of child abusers and human traffickers by U.S. officials.
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.
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.
The U.S. government is expected to appeal a federal court ruling ordering the immediate release of undocumented mothers and immigrant children from family detention centers.
President Obama's multi-million dollar request to grant legal aid to undocumented children who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border was shut down by a Republican-controlled Senate panel on Wednesday.
The backlog in immigration court cases -- which has been piling up for the last decade -- has only gotten worse since thousands of undocumented children fled Central America and migrated to the U.S. last summer.
The bill would earmark $3 million to pay for attorneys that would represent the thousands of unaccompanied undocumented children currently in California.
Mexican migrants have entered the U.S. in large numbers, but the United Nations' Department of Economic and Social Affairs revealed the second most common native country is not from Latin America.
Honduran President said that the issue is a humanitarian crisis and sprouted from the fight against drugs in the US, despite the fact that the US is the biggest consumer of drugs. And while the US only has to fight the public health and safety aspect, the backstage fight is the one affecting Central America and encouraging the migration.