Trump Immigration Crackdown Strains Resources
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The over-budget spending on ICE Air that John just described is just one of the extra costs of the immigration crackdown throughout the...
View Article'This Is Where America Lives': Hurricane Michael Devastated Working-Class Towns
Hurricane Michael was especially brutal to the working-class suburbs just east of Panama City, Fla., where communities that were just scraping by before the storm now face a daunting recovery. "This...
View ArticleMigrant Caravan Top Of Mind For Voters Thousands Of Miles Away In Tennessee
The caravan of migrants making its way across Mexico may be thousands of miles from Tennessee. But it's not far from voters' minds. "That's one of my deepest concerns," said James Harrell of...
View ArticleTrump Escalates Immigration Issue Days Ahead Of Elections With White House...
Updated at 6:43 p.m. ET President Trump delivered a White House broadside against illegal immigration Thursday, underscoring what has become his central focus in the final days of the midterm election...
View ArticleJudge Orders Pipe Bomb Suspect Cesar Sayoc Held Without Bail
The man accused of sending more than a dozen pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and critics of President Trump will be held without bail, a judge ruled on Tuesday. Cesar Sayoc made his first court...
View ArticleBig Latino Turnout In Midterms Raises Stakes For 2020
Election after election, pundits predict that Latinos will be a powerful voting bloc. And Latino voters consistently underperform those expectations by failing to turn out at the polls in big numbers....
View ArticleWhere William Barr, Trump's Pick To Be Next Attorney General, Stands On...
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: On Friday, President Trump announced that William Barr is his pick to be the next attorney general. Barr served in that role in the early...
View ArticlePediatricians Voice Concerns About Care Following Two 'Needless' Migrant Deaths
The secretary of homeland security is traveling to the Texas border town where an 8-year-old migrant from Guatemala was detained before dying in U.S. custody the day before Christmas. Kirstjen Nielsen...
View ArticleWhy Is The Music Of 1968 So Enduring? 'It Was Allowed To Be Art'
In 1968, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones were at the top of their game. Aretha Franklin released two great records. The Kinks , The Byrds and Van Morrison put out some of their best work, too. One...
View Article'An Irony': Shutdown Fight Over Border Security Takes Toll On Immigration...
Updated 3:55 pm E.T. Friday The government shutdown began with the president's demand for border security money. But it has also halted E-Verify, a federal program that's supposed to prevent immigrants...
View ArticleAs More Migrants Are Denied Asylum, An Abuse Survivor Is Turned Away
When the young woman from Nicaragua got off the plane in South Florida, she hadn't seen her parents since they left their tiny Central American town to find work in the U.S. more than a decade ago....
View ArticleImmigration Officials See Spike In Large Groups Crossing Southern Border
Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Here is an underlying reality of the border debate. Migration to the United States across the U.S.-Mexico border is far lower than a decade...
View ArticleBehind The Border 'Crisis': More Migrant Families Risk Dangerous Remote...
In a desolate stretch of desert outside Yuma, Ariz., there's a spot where more than 350 migrants, including children, burrowed under the steel border fence a few weeks ago. "This only goes down just...
View Article'No More Deaths' Volunteers Face Possible Jail Time For Aiding Migrants
For years, volunteers have left food and water in remote stretches of desert along the U.S.-Mexico border. They say they're trying to save the lives of migrants making the dangerous crossing. But the...
View ArticleMigrant Families Arrive In Busloads As Border Crossings Hit 10-Year High
The U.S. Border Patrol apprehended more than 66,000 migrants at the Southern border in February, the highest total for a single month in almost a decade . The majority of those arrested were migrant...
View Article'Remain In Mexico' Immigration Policy Expands, But Slowly
The Trump administration is expanding a hard-line immigration policy that forces asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for their assigned court dates in the U.S. The program, which is officially known as...
View ArticleWith Thousands Of Migrants Crossing The Border Daily, We Asked 'Why Now?'
Irsi Castillo clutches her 3-year-old daughter to her chest to shield her from the wind. They've just crossed the Rio Grande and stepped onto U.S. soil in El Paso, Texas, after traveling from Honduras....
View ArticleImmigration System At The 'Breaking Point,' Homeland Security Official Warns
Updated at 6:45 p.m. ET Immigration authorities are expressing alarm about the growing number of migrants crossing the Southern border. Federal agents apprehended more than 4,000 migrants crossing the...
View ArticleThe Latest Immigration Crackdown May Be Fake Social Security Numbers
The Social Security Administration may be the latest front in the Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigration. The agency is reviving the controversial practice of sending "no match"...
View ArticleAG Barr Orders Immigration Judges To Stop Releasing Asylum-Seekers On Bail
The Department of Justice issued an order on Tuesday that could keep thousands of asylum-seekers detained while they wait for their cases to be heard in immigration court — a wait that often lasts...
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