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(Im)migration Recap, July 28-August 2
Editor's note: We want you to know what's happening, why and how it could impact your life, family or business, so we created a weekly digest of the top original immigration, migration and refugee reporting from across VOA. Questions? Tips? Comments? Email the VOA immigration team: ImmigrationUnit@voanews.com.
McAleenan traveled to Guatemala to promote safe third country agreement
U.S. Homeland Security acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan and Guatemalan officials outlined details of the safe third country agreement signed between the United States and Guatemala last week. Under the new deal, the Trump administration is planning to send asylum-seekers from Honduras and El Salvador back to Guatemala to process their requests for help outside the U.S. Their claims would not initially go through the U.S. immigration courts.
One family's gripping account after an immigration raid
The family opened the door thinking they were going to collaborate with law enforcement to help solve a crime. That is not what happened. It wasn't local police. It was ICE.
ACLU sues Trump administration for continued child separations
The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge Tuesday in San Diego to block the Trump administration to continue the separation of families despite last year's court order against the practice.
US-Mexico Border and seesaw bridges
Two California professors installed three pink seesaws through the steel border fence at an area near El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. It gave children on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border a chance to play together, despite the physical barriers that divide them.
Migrant mother sues private prison company
Yazmin Juarez's 1-year-old daughter died weeks after they were released from an immigration detention center in Texas. She filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the private prison company that operates the facility. Juarez's lawyers allege the medical staff at the Dilley facility didn't properly treat the infant, then wrongly cleared her to travel.
D.C. Court, asylum rules and Trump administration
Judge Randolph D. Moss, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., Friday threw out a Trump administration policy that made anyone who crossed the border outside an official port of entry ineligible for asylum.
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USCIS ends parole program for Filipinos and Haitians
The Trump administration is ending the Filipino World War II Veterans Parole program and the Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced Friday. Under both policies, individuals with approved family-based immigrant petitions were authorized to enter and work in the United States while waiting for their green card to become available.
TPS extended for Syrians
Kevin McAleenan, U.S. Homeland Security acting secretary, has extended Syria's Temporary Protected Status designation for 18 months after reviewing the country's current conditions. TPS recipients can remain in the U.S. with work authorization through March 31, 2021.
August 03, 2019 at 09:37AM
