The Trump administration is moving to begin collecting DNA samples from hundreds of thousands of people booked into federal immigration custody each year for entry into a national criminal database, an immense expansion of the use of technology to enforce the nation’s immigration laws.
The Trump administration is moving to begin collecting DNA samples from hundreds of thousands of people booked into federal immigration custody each year for entry into a national criminal database, an immense expansion of the use of technology to enforce the nation’s immigration laws.
Crossing the border without permission is a crime, but the law prohibiting it has often gone unenforced since it was passed in 1929. Instead, most first-time violators are deported under civil, not criminal, proceedings.
A small number of coordinated federal raids targeting undocumented migrant parents and their children took place over the weekend, the beginning of President Donald Trump’s plan to swiftly enforce deportation orders against thousands of recently arrived migrants who are not eligible to remain in the country.
A small number of coordinated federal raids targeting undocumented migrant parents and their children took place over the weekend, the beginning of the Trump administration’s plan to swiftly enforce deportation orders against some 2,000 recently arrived migrants who are not eligible to remain in the country.
Coordinated federal raids targeting migrant parents and their children who are in the United States illegally began over the weekend, part of President Donald Trump’s pledge to swiftly enforce deportation orders against thousands of recently arrived migrants who are not eligible to remain in the country.
Though the station had held a relatively small population of migrants, compared with the tens of thousands who have been crossing the border each month, the lawyers’ accounts offered a rare view into a system that has largely been hidden from public view.
Since the summer of 2017, Acevedo, a 24-year-old social worker, had been seeing a mysterious wave of children arriving from the border, most of them from Central America.
Federal immigration authorities faced with overburdened detention centers are scouring the country to find space to house migrants as the crush of asylum-seekers that has overwhelmed the southwest border spreads deep into the nation’s interior.
Federal immigration authorities faced with overburdened detention centers are scouring the country to find space to house migrants as the crush of asylum-seekers that has overwhelmed the southwest border spreads deep into the nation’s interior.
Federal immigration authorities faced with overburdened detention centers are scouring the country to find space to house migrants as the crush of asylum-seekers that has overwhelmed the southwest border spreads deep into the nation’s interior.
It was Jose Arturo Gonzalez Carranza’s 22nd birthday when he found himself suddenly alone to take care of his 3-year-old daughter. Army officials called him at work to tell him that his wife’s military police unit had been attacked in Kunar province, Afghanistan. She didn’t survive.
It was Jose Arturo Gonzalez Carranza’s 22nd birthday when he found himself suddenly alone to take care of his 3-year-old daughter. Army officials called him at work to tell him that his wife’s military police unit had been attacked in Kunar province, Afghanistan. She didn’t survive.
“The system is well beyond capacity, and remains at the breaking point,” Kevin K. McAleenan, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, told reporters in announcing the new data Tuesday.
For the fourth time in five months, the number of migrant families crossing the southwest border has broken records, border enforcement authorities said Tuesday, warning that government facilities are full and agents are overwhelmed.
For the fourth time in five months, the number of migrant families crossing the southwest border has broken records, border enforcement authorities said Tuesday, warning that government facilities are full and agents are overwhelmed.
The migrant, who was not identified, had been apprehended Feb. 2 by police in Roma, Texas, near a port of entry into the United States, and requested medical attention.
Under orders to end the process that the president calls “catch and release,” the authorities have arrested and jailed tens of thousands of migrants since Trump took office, and Republicans would like it to stay that way.
After prompting the longest government shutdown in history, President Donald Trump’s divisive proposal for a border wall has taken a back seat in recent days for negotiators in Congress who are seeking to avoid another crippling closure. The latest talks have focused on another immigration issue that has quietly exploded in recent months: Record numbers of migrants being held in cramped detention centers.
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