Aug 04 Watch 6:48 Jesuit priest describes seeing ICE agents target migrants at immigration court By William Brangham, Maea Lenei Buhre, Sam Lane The Trump administration has made sweeping changes to the country’s immigration system. In recent months, ICE agents have been arresting migrants outside courtrooms and courthouses. William Brangham spoke with Father Brian Strassberger, a Jesuit Priest who serves migrants on both… Continue watching
Jul 31 Judge extends protected status Trump administration had ended for 60,000 migrants By Janie Har, Associated Press A federal judge in California extended on Thursday temporary protected status for 60,000 people from Central America and Asia, including people from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem determined that conditions in their home country no longer warranted protections. Continue reading
Apr 20 Vance meets Pope Francis on Easter Sunday after tangle over migration and deportations By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press Vice President JD Vance met briefly with Pope Francis on Sunday to exchange Easter greetings, after they got into a long-distance tangle over the Trump administration's migrant deportation plans. Continue reading
Apr 19 Vatican notes ‘exchange of opinions’ with Vance over migrants and prisoners By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press Vance, a Catholic convert, met with the secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, and the foreign minister, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, in the Apostolic Palace. There was no indication he met with Pope Francis, who has sharply cut back official duties during… Continue reading
Apr 17 Watch 8:40 Los Angeles schools leader explains why he refused to let DHS agents see students By Laura Barrón-López, Jackson Hudgins Officers with the Department of Homeland Security recently attempted to enter elementary schools in Los Angeles but were not allowed in. Agents claim to have been conducting a welfare check, not an immigration enforcement action. School administrators say DHS lied… Continue watching
Apr 08 Homeland Security revokes legal status for migrants who entered U.S. using CBP One app By Valerie Gonzalez, Associated Press The Department of Homeland Security is telling migrants who entered the country using an online app to leave the United States immediately. Continue reading
Mar 28 Watch 10:45 Migrants in U.S. legally and with no criminal history caught up in Trump crackdown By Laura Barrón-López, Doug Adams, Ian Couzens, Leila Jackson President Trump promised the largest mass deportation effort in the country’s history. As his Homeland Security Department works to deport more people, immigrants with legal status or no criminal history are being detained and deported. We hear from three people… Continue watching
Mar 27 Watch 8:10 ACLU attorney on suing Trump administration for using wartime authority for deportations By Laura Barrón-López, Shrai Popat, Unda Dittaboot President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of Venezuelan migrants, without due process, could end up at the Supreme Court. An appeals court upheld a ruling blocking the administration from using the rare wartime authority for… Continue watching
Mar 21 Asylum-seekers deported from U.S. to Panama fear they will be forgotten as options dwindle By Matías Delacroix, Megan Janetsky, Associated Press Migrants from Afghanistan, Russia, Iran and China deported from the United States and dropped into limbo in Panama hopped door-to-door at embassies and consulates this week in a desperate attempt to seek asylum in any country that would accept them. Continue reading
Mar 19 Pentagon reviews plans to reduce troops handling migrants at Guantanamo Bay By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press Military officials are reviewing plans that would cut the number of U.S. troops deployed to the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba to handle detained migrants by as much as half, because there are no detainees there now and the program has stumbled… Continue reading