One of the largest crossings on the U.S.-Mexico border was forced to close on July 19 after a group of about 50 illegal immigrants tried to cross into the United States, federal officials said. The purpose of the immigrants, according to officials, was to organize...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is outraged by the conditions of detention of refugees and migrants on the border between the United States and Mexico. She stated that the US authorities should not detain children and separate them from their families, according to the UN website. “As a pediatrician, as ...
California's Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill on July 9 that would make young illegal immigrants eligible for Medicaid in the state known as Medi-Cal. This decision makes California the first state to offer taxpayer-funded medical benefits to adults ...
At an immigrant detention center in Texas, border patrol agents tried to humiliate a Honduran immigrant by forcing him to hold a sign that read “I like men,” an employee who witnessed the incident said in an email. The e-mails before CNN were sent to ...
US Customs and Border Protection officers are being investigated for allegedly posting racist and sexist jokes in a closed Facebook group. The targets of their jokes were migrants and congressmen of Latin American origin. The closed group on the social network has 9500 users, writes BBC. Among…
The US Senate has blocked a bill approved by the House of Representatives to allocate $ 4,5 billion to help illegal immigrants and, above all, unaccompanied immigrant children on the southern border of the United States. In return, the Republicans in the Senate offered their version of the bill on humanitarian aid to illegal immigrants, writes the BBC. Bill…
The photograph shows the bodies of an adult and a child near the river bank. The image of Oscar Ramirez and his daughter Valeria drowning while trying to swim across the Rio Grande (the river dividing Mexico and the United States) went around the Internet and caused another surge of indignation in the United States over politics...
On the evening of June 25, the US House of Representatives approved a $ 4,5 billion additional spending bill to address humanitarian issues at the US-Mexico border, which includes, among other things, additional funding for food, water, medical services and ...
Text messages came both day and night, they only indicated the gender and age of the child detained at the border and separated from the parents. An employee of Bethany Christian Services in Michigan had no more than 15 minutes to find shelter for each of them. ...
Hundreds of illegal immigrants trying to cross the southern border of the United States in mass caravans have a criminal history in the United States. This is evidenced by data from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), writes Fox News. DHS records show that over 1000 immigrants, in the past nine ...