1 hour ago Women deported with US citizen kids denied chance to transfer custody, says lawyer

Mothers and kids held in ‘complete isolation’ and unable to coordinate childcare before being put on flight to HondurasTwo women who were deported to Honduras alongside their US citizen children were held in “complete isolation” and denied any opportunity to coordinate the care and custody of their children before being put on a flight, according to one of the lawyers representing them.The mothers were unable to contact attorneys or loved ones, and were not allowed the option to transfer the custody of their citizen children to another parent or caregiver, said Gracie Willis, an attorney with the National Immigration Project who is representing one of the families and coordinating with the team representing the other family. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Ice seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children to deport or prosecute

Moves sparking fears of a crackdown on such children and prompting alarm about ‘backdoor family separation’Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officials are seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children in operations nationwide with a view to deporting them or pursuing criminal cases against them or adult sponsors sheltering them legally in the US, according to sources and an Ice document.The moves are sparking fears of a crackdown on such children and prompting alarm about what one critic called “backdoor family separation”. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago How dream vacations became ‘like a horror movie’ amidst Trump’s border crackdown

Tourists traveling to the Land of the Free are being locked up upon landing. James Liddell has detailed some of the most high-profile cases since President Trump’s return to the White House

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7 h. ago Immigrant mothers are to blame for their US citizen children being deported, says Trump’s border czar: ‘Parenting 101’

At least three US citizen children were deported with their mothers, who did not have legal status

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7 h. ago Ice seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children to deport or prosecute them

Moves sparking fears of a crackdown on such children and prompting alarm about ‘backdoor family separation’Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officials are seeking out unaccompanied immigrant children in operations nationwide with a view to deporting them or pursuing criminal cases against them or adult sponsors sheltering them legally in the US, according to sources and an Ice document.The moves are sparking fears of a crackdown on such children and prompting alarm about what one critic called “backdoor family separation”. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago ‘Border czar’ touts Trump’s immigration successes and blasts Biden for ‘unsecuring’ border

The White House is taking credit for unprecedented drops in illegal crossings, which have virtually disappeared due to Trump’s harsh border crackdown

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12 h. ago Niagara Falls 'at breaking point' with migrants filling hotels amid fears Trump crack down will send surge of asylum seekers across Canada border

Niagara Falls has more migrants per capita than any other city in Canada. Many of the city's 15,000 hotel rooms have become temporary housing for migrants waiting for their claims to be processed.

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27 h. ago Marco Rubio denies Trump is deporting citizen kids. They’re deporting mothers instead

Rubio slams media for making it ‘sound like ICE agents kicked down door and grabbed two-year-old and threw him on an airplane’

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34 h. ago The tourists whose dream American vacations were destroyed by Trump’s border crackdown

Tourists traveling to the Land of the Free are being locked up upon landing. James Liddell has detailed some of the most high-profile cases since President Trump’s return to the White House

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3 d. ago ‘The United States wants you to leave’: Unaccompanied migrant kids are being forced to attend deportation hearings alone

A New York immigration judge presided over a group of a dozen children to explain to them why they might have to leave the country

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3 d. ago Woman facing US deportation after wrong turn on drive to Costco

A woman from Guatemala says she and her two US-born children were held for nearly a week by customs agents

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4 d. ago Trump is jailing immigrant families again. A mother, father and teen tell of ‘anguish on a daily basis’

Family incarceration has been revived after Biden – and Jade, Jason and Gabriela are speaking out about their distressing treatment in TexasWhen Jade and her family first arrived at the detention facility in Karnes county, Texas, she wasn’t really sure what to think.“I guess I was confused and scared,” said the 13-year-old. Her parents were doing their best to reassure her that everything would be OK, but she knew they were in danger of being deported. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago 'I was locked up under Donald Trump's brutal border crackdown

Rebecca Burke, a graphic artist from Monmouthshire, southeast Wales, was detained in the US for three weeks because of a visa mix-up - and was held "in horrendous conditions"

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6 d. ago The innocent tourists locked up under Donald Trump's US border crackdown: How holidays have turned to nightmares as the number of rich European visitors plummet

For many, visiting America is the dream of a lifetime. But for some, that dream has turned into a nightmare, and instead of spending relaxing days on the beach, they have been locked up for weeks in jail.

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1 week ago Despite the White House’s best efforts, Trump is losing ground on immigration

Analysis: Voters have approved of Trump’s stance on the border. But he’s starting to lose trust

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1 week ago A US citizen was held for pickup by ICE even after proving he was born in the country

A U.S. citizen was arrested in Florida for allegedly being in the country illegally and held for pickup by immigration authorities even after his mother showed a judge her son’s birth certificate and the judge dismissed charges

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1 week ago America used to fire the world’s imagination – but now the cultural conversation is being silenced | Van Badham

Not only are TV-watching, book-reading, show-going, music-listening travellers declining to visit the US, we have started to cease to imagine itThis week, fresh data revealed the United States has seen its biggest drop in Australian tourists since Covid. It’s hardly surprising. Innocent people are being snatched by authorities from American streets. Citizens of foreign countries are being stopped, shackled and detained. The EU is now sending its emissaries with burner phones, lest personal social media posts critical of President Trump be discovered by border agents and who knows what happens next? Forcible relocation to a Salvadorian supermax prison, seemingly without chance of release, is suddenly not out of the question.It all seems like something from Hollywood dystopia; the V series, maybe. Or Escape from New York. It’s pretty much the plot line of the first season of Andor – which I strongly recommend that everyone watch before the Trump regime clocks what that show is advisin...

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1 week ago Is Trump a bigger threat than Putin? Voters in a key border country reveal whether they view the U.S. as a friend or enemy

President Donald Trump's aggressive approach toward Canada has not ingratiated himself to his neighbor to the North according to a new poll.

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1 week ago Two service members killed after ‘civilian vehicle crash’ along highway that straddles southern border

Troops are deployed in the area in support of Donald Trump’s executive order to secure the US-Mexico border

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1 week ago Two service members killed after ‘civilian vehicle crash’ near southern border

Troops are deployed in the area in support of Donald Trump’s executive order to secure the US-Mexico border

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