Groups file suit demanding legal representation for child deportees
Each year, the government initiates immigration court proceedings against thousands of children, some of whom have lived in the U.S. for years.
Republicans use child refugees to block immigration reform
The arrival in South Texas alone of over 50,000 child refugees without immigration papers has been seized on by Republicans to block immigration reform.
Children fleeing violence and poverty
Displaced children as young as 13 are leaving their homes in Central America in greater numbers than ever before due to violence from wars involving the cartels, gang initiations and or extortion.
No Bill of Rights on U.S.-Mexico border
Tucson is 60 miles from the Mexican border, within a 100-mile zone where immigration authorities say important due process rights can be suspended.
Arriving without their parents: Child refugees being warehoused on the U.S. border
Thousands of unaccompanied child refugees from Central America, making their way through Mexico and into the U.S., are ending up in locked, fenced warehouses in Texas and Arizona.
Civil rights lawsuit wins groundbreaking immigration policy
After years of organizing against racist profiling by the East Haven Police Department, a landmark legal victory has been won.
Dreamers in Virginia can pay instate tuition
Immigrants' rights advocates are hailing a ruling that means students who are accepted by the federal DACA program can pay instate tuition to attend state colleges and universities.
Immigrant families demand an immediate end to deportations
Fed up with seeing loved ones deported and families and communities broken up, 11 undocumented immigrants and their supporters were arrested after blocking an intersection.
Panel: Immigrants’ advocates should step up efforts in the states
Immigrants' advocates should step up efforts in the states, regardless of the fate of comprehensive immigration reform in D.C., a panel discussing the issue says.
Deportees, families “come out of the shadows” with heart-rending stories
Since 2008, the Obama administration has deported almost 2 million people, more than during any other presidency.
