Dec 20 Border officers say they felt unsafe enacting Trump asylum crackdown By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press A March 2019 letter sent to the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection demanded that he intervene to ensure the agency's front-line employees at one Texas bridge “are not injured or killed” enforcing the policy. Continue reading
Dec 18 U.S. seeks to bar asylum for immigrants convicted of certain crimes By Colleen Long, Associated Press Immigrant advocates and humanitarian groups have criticized Trump's hard-line policies as inhumane and have said the U.S. is abdicating its role as a safe haven for refugees. Continue reading
Dec 17 Watch 7:10 What Trump's refugee policies could mean for places like Bowling Green, Kentucky For the year that began in October, President Trump has capped the number of refugees who may enter the U.S. at 18,000 -- the lowest level since 1980. The policy is having a significant effect in what may seem like… Continue watching
Dec 15 Watch 6:53 Life in a town with more Border Patrol agents than residents By Ivette Feliciano, Zachary Green The number of U.S. Border Patrol agents stood at over 1,700 in 1975, but today nearly 20,000 agents are on patrol as one of the largest and most well-funded enforcement agencies in the country. A new documentary called "Undeterred," sheds… Continue watching
Dec 15 Watch 8:42 Riace was once a beacon for immigrants, now it's a ghost town By Christopher Livesay, Alessandro Pavone The southern Italian town of Riace was once a beacon for immigrants from around the world, but three years after NewsHour Weekend first reported on how it had welcomed immigrants, a political shift has turned it into a relative ghost… Continue watching
Dec 04 Texas judge orders border wall fundraiser not to build By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press State District Judge Keno Vasquez on Tuesday issued a temporary restraining order against We Build the Wall, which raised $25 million after promising to build its own private barrier. Continue reading
Dec 04 ICE confirms officers in Louisiana jail pepper-sprayed protesting migrants By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press Lawyers say asylum seekers have staged protests at other ICE jails in Louisiana, where the immigrant detainee population has surged in recent months and hit 8,000 earlier this year. Continue reading
Nov 27 Report finds U.S. lacked technology to properly document separated families By Astrid Galvan, Associated Press The new report noted that Border Patrol officials knew they lacked the tracking technology months before the widespread practice began and did nothing to address the issue. Continue reading
Nov 26 Watch 3:42 An artist hopes the stories of our treasured objects can help us understand each other By Maya Trabulsi, KPBS What objects give meaning to our lives? Kerianne Quick, artist in residence at San Diego’s New Americans Museum, spent a year researching people’s treasured possessions -- and the stories behind them -- for an innovative project in which she preserves… Continue watching
Nov 20 India to use survey to weed out people illegally residing in country By Associated Press The state said those left out would have an opportunity to prove their citizenship at tribunals set up by the government. Continue reading