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Arizona Republic: Plans to Cut US Family-Based Immigration

Daniel González September 7, 2018
As candidate, Donald Trump rejected conventional wisdom that immigration strengthens the United States and promised limits. Harsh policies targeting and separating families have followed. In the spring, US agents stopped asylum seekers at the border, separating children from parents, without explanation or a system for reunification. The courts blocked that policy, but more than 400 children are...

Washington Post: US Denies Passports to Border Citizens

Kevin Sieff September 4, 2018
The United States is increasingly denying passports to citizens who live along the Mexican border – even those with official birth certificates. The target: babies born at home, often by midwives. The policy was in effect since 2000, but enforcement has increased. “The Trump administration is accusing hundreds, and possibly thousands, of Hispanics along the border of using fraudulent birth...

Wall Street Journal: For Immigrant Families, Scars of Separation Remain

Arian Campo-Flores and Melanie Grayce West July 21, 2018
Parenting styles vary with cultures around the globe. Earlier this year, the Trump administration launched a new policy of abruptly separating children from immigrants and asylum seekers, with no warning and no plan in place for eventual reunions. A US court gave officials deadlines to organize reunions for more than 2,000 children. Another court ordered a temporary end to deportations. Parents...

Spiegel Online: Toughest Adversary in Europe

Walter Mayr June 29, 2018
Italy’s interior minister is a populist who opposes immigration, firing up crowds by suggesting the European Union has treated its third largest economy as “garbage.” His party, Lega Nord, is a junior partner in the coalition government, but he is the most outspoken leader with tough talk crafted perhaps to distract Italians from their debt challenge – standing at more than 134 percent per GDP,...

Los Angeles Times: California Judge Orders Immigrant Families Reunited

Elliot Spagat, Michael Balsamo and Will Weissert June 27, 2018
The United States, striving to limit migrants crossing the southern border, has separated children from parents since April, scattering them in more than 2,000 in shelters and foster homes around the country. A US district judge ruled that the government must reunite the families within 30 days – 14 days for children younger than 5. The government must arrange for contact between children and...

National Review: Asylum Crisis Is a Security Challenge

Andrew C. McCarthy June 25, 2018
The US government struggles to control a border in crisis as hundreds of families seek asylum. The rule of law is only as good as enforcement backed by adequate resources. Writing for National Review, Andrew McCarthy argues the crisis is a security rather than legal challenge, and he maintains that new laws will not resolve the immediate problem. He urges barriers to stop the flow of immigrants...

The Guardian: Immigrant Children in Cages at Texas Warehouse

June 21, 2018
Widespread media coverage of a south Texas warehouse sheds light on the physical manifestations of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy vis-à-vis illegal immigration. An estimated 2,000 children have been taken from their parents since US Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the initiative, “which directs homeland security officials to refer all cases of illegal entry into the...