Trump judicial nominee frustrates senators from both parties with silence at hearing
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Steven Menashi refused to answer questions from Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California and Dick Durbin of Illinois about his work on immigration issues, including a policy to separate migrant children from their families…
New holding center for migrant children opens in Texas
The Department of Health and Human Services said about 225 children are being held at the site in Carrizo Springs, with plans to expand to as many as 1,300, making it one of the biggest camps in the U.S. government…
UN rights chief ‘appalled’ by conditions in U.S. for migrants
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said Monday that children should never be held in immigration detention facilities or separated from their families.
McConnell rejects Democrats’ demands to change $4.6 billion border funding bill
"We already have a compromise," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, citing the Senate bill, which passed Wednesday on a lopsided 84-8 vote.
The GOP-held Senate on Wednesday passed a bipartisan $4.6 billion measure to deliver aid to the southern border before the government runs out of money to care for thousands of migrant families and unaccompanied children.
U.S. border and immigration officials are testifying before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on June 26. The hearing comes a day after the head of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced his resignation amid criticism over the agency’s treatment…
Hundreds of migrant children on Monday were reported to have been transferred out of a Texas facility following uproar over their treatment. But on Tuesday, 100 children were moved back to the facility in Clint, Texas, which was described as…
U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw said Thursday in San Diego that it was important to set a deadline for finding potentially thousands of children who were separated between July 1, 2017, and June 25, 2018.
In our news wrap Tuesday, New York City declared a public health emergency over a growing measles outbreak. City officials have confirmed 285 cases of the disease in Brooklyn and Queens since September, mostly among members of the Orthodox Jewish…
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