SEATTLE (AP) — The Trump administration is opposing Washington state's effort to make a privately run, for-profit immigration detention center pay detainees minimum wage for the work they do. Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson sued The GEO Group in 2017, saying its Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma must pay ...
The Trump administration is proposing major changes to rules about how long migrant families can be held in government custody, arguing that the move will yield more humane conditions in detention facilities. But critics fear the regulations will have the opposite effect. William Brangham talks to Warren Binford of Willamette University College of Law, about...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Hundreds of Google employees are calling on the company to pledge it won't work with U.S. Customs and Border Protection or Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It's the latest in a year full of political and social pushback from the tech giant's workforce. A ...
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's attorney general said Thursday he is investigating after a truck drove at a group protesting federal immigration policies at a detention center. At least two people were injured Wednesday night outside the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, according to ...
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemala President-elect Alejandro Giammattei says that his country isn't able to hold up its side of an immigration agreement with the United States as it is currently written. Giammattei told Mexico's Televisa network Tuesday he'd analyze the agreement, which would require asylum seekers ...
... said. In recent months, the immigration judges' union has spoken out against new performance quotas and rules for managing court dockets. The National Association of Immigration Judges has also called for the immigration courts to become independent of the Department of Justice, where the judges are currently employees. "It's ...
MCALLEN, Texas — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she sees comprehensive immigration reform not only as Congress' official work but also as its moral responsibility as she finishes up a tour of Central America. Pelosi traveled with a congressional delegation to explore the causes of immigration and possible solutions. The group ...
WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials are defending last week’s mass immigration raids in Mississippi, including emotional footage of a girl pleading with authorities to let her father go. Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan acknowledged that video of the 11-year-old sobbing was “emotional” but says the ...
JACKSON, Miss. — Dozens of immigrant workers have been released a day after being detained in the largest immigration raid in a decade in the United States. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials say 680 people were arrested in Wednesday's raids. But immigration lawyers say that by Thursday morning, about five ...
Matthew Albence, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's acting director, told The Associated Press that the raids could be the largest such operation thus far in any single state. Asked to comment on the fact that the raid was happening on the same day as Trump's El Paso ...
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