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Migrants gather near razor wire on U.S.-Mexico border, as seen from Ciudad Juarez

Daily News Lesson January 26 2024

Border standoff between Texas, feds intensifies

Learn about a brewing conflict between state and federal government over the border

FILE PHOTO: DHS Secretary Mayorkas speaks at the White House in Washington

Daily News Lesson May 09 2023

Border towns prepare for end of COVID migrant restrictions + Newswrap 5/9/23 + Student video

Discuss the end of Title 42, and what that will mean for immigration and border towns like El Paso, Texas

Asylum seeking migrants are escorted out of the brush after crossing Rio Grande river into the U.S. from Mexico in Penitas, Texas

Daily News Lesson January 20 2022

Biden vowed to fix America’s immigration system. Here’s what he achieved in his first year

Review President Biden's first year of efforts to address immigration and border policy

Migrants from Central America camp outside the El Chaparral border crossing, hoping to cross and request asylum in the U.S, in Tijuana,

Daily News Lesson March 10 2021

Biden administration scrambles to respond to surge of migrant children at border

This lesson discusses the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border with the number of detained migrant children tripling in recent weeks.

FILE PHOTO: Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) look on after executing search warrants and making some arrests at an agricultural processing facility in Canton

Daily Video August 22 2019

ICE immigration raids took this school superintendent by surprise

Use this lesson plan to learn more about the ICE immigration raids in Mississippi and how schools have been affected.

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Daily News Lesson July 06 2018

New challenges in aftermath of family separation

Democratic attorneys general in 17 states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing that its family separation policy violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fifth Amendment.

Border Patrol Agents Detain Migrants Near US-Mexico Border

Daily News Lesson June 18 2018

Study guide: How separating children from parents became U.S. government policy

On Monday, the Trump Administration said they would not apologize over its “zero tolerance” policy separating families at the southern U.S. border.

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