Welcome to Immigration News
This site will have frequent short updates, lots of links, and some longer analysis. If you like it, please subscribe. You can view my other blogs at maryturck.com-
Recent posts
- Saying Yes to Refugees November 22, 2019
- Shipping Asylum Seekers to Guatemala November 21, 2019
- Voices of Conscience: Asylum Officers Speak Out November 18, 2019
- Minnesota Immigration News: November 15 2019 November 15, 2019
- DACA: Supreme Court Today November 12, 2019
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Tag Archives: immigration
Holding health care hostage to border wall and other immigration articles – April 24, 2017
The border wall should be a non-issue by now, with immigration officials, Republicans on the border, and just about every person with any background information agreeing that it’s a stupid idea. Everybody, that is, except the president. With a government … Continue reading
Defending the DREAMers
Paola came to the United States from Mexico as a two-year-old. She’s 23 now. Jose was a child when his parents brought him here. Now he’s 30. Danna came when she was eight. Now she’s a 24-year-old college senior. Kenia … Continue reading
Posted in Children, DACA
Tagged childhood arrival, DACA, DREAMers, immigration, students
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After the Supreme Court failure on immigration — keep on talking, keep on walking
Hours after today’s disastrous Supreme Court immigration decision, a website called The Excluded popped up in my Facebook feed. The Excluded faces and stories of longtime U.S. residents who live every day at risk of deportation. “Noemi Romero, 24, has … Continue reading
63 million people and a crisis of solidarity
A new UN refugee agency report shows 65.3 million people forcibly displaced from their homes around the world. Of that number, 21.3 million are refugees and 3.2 million are seeking asylum. Another 40.8 million internally displaced persons live inside their … Continue reading
Posted in Central America, Children, Refugees, Syria
Tagged Central America, Europe, immigration, Refugees, Syrian refugees
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Let’s jail the children and call it child care
Texas, leading the nation as always, granted a child care license to a jail on April 29. It’s a special, private jail, an immigration detention center in Karnes City run by the private, for-profit GEO Group. The Texas license comes … Continue reading
Posted in Central America, Children, Refugees
Tagged CCA, Children, detention center, families, Geo Group, immigrant, immigration, Karnes, Refugees, unaccompanied minors
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Three-year-olds, immigration law, and the presidential candidates
David Wilson and Jane Guskin explain what’s wrong with the mainstream immigration debate, including the Sanders/Clinton pseudo-discussion in their March 9 debate: “The media and the politicians treat the migration either as a natural disaster (‘flooding over the border’) or … Continue reading
Posted in Central America, Children, due process, Refugees
Tagged Central America, deportation, due process, immigration, immigration court, immigration law, Refugees
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FBI blackmailing immigrants
I’ve been skeptical of BuzzFeed in the past, but once in a while they really nail it. Case in point: a January 28 story about the FBI demanding that Muslim immigrants spy on other Muslims as a pre-condition for having … Continue reading
Posted in due process, Uncategorized
Tagged ACLU, Buzzfeed, CARRP, FBI, green card, immigrant, immigration, Muslim, naturalization, permanent resident
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