US Supreme Court lets Texas border enforcement law take effect
Washington DC, US Reuters The US Supreme Court on Tuesday let a Republican-backed Texas law take effect that allows state law enforcement authorities to arrest people suspected of illegally crossing the US-Mexico border, rejecting a bid to block it by President Joe Biden’s administration. The court has a six-to-three conservative majority, and its three liberal […]
What does the future hold for Venezuelan migrants?
Bogota, ColombiaThomson Reuters Foundation Venezuelans fleeing economic and political turmoil now face tough new border regulations in the US as Joe Biden’s administration tries to clamp down on a wave of migration. Millions have left the South American nation over the last decade for countries including neighbouring Colombia, Brazil and the United States. Wearing life […]
Planting seeds of hope: Prayer, worship lift unaccompanied migrant teens in US shelters
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on the mission of Catholic clergy and volunteers who minister to teens held in US immigration detention on the outskirts of El Paso…
US to end COVID-era order blocking migrants at Mexico border
Washington DC, USReuters US health officials are planning to end a sweeping, pandemic-related expulsion policy that has effectively closed down the US asylum system at the border with Mexico by 23rd May, a US official familiar with the matter told Reuters, adding that the decision had not yet been finalised. A draft notice by the […]
US pastor asks federal court to sanction immigration officials
Washington DC, USRNS The pastor of a historic New York church is asking a federal court to sanction immigration officials, arguing they offered “false or at best misleading” accounts in response to a lawsuit and put her at risk of arrest in Mexico under false pretenses as she aided asylum-seekers. “They consistently lied or hid […]
Migrants denounce Mexico’s crackdown amid bilateral talks in Washington
Tapachula, MexicoReuters US-bound migrants, mostly from Central America and the Caribbean, said on Thursday that a Mexican government crackdown was keeping them “prisoner” in the south of the country. The migrant comments contrasted with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s promises of humane treatment ahead of Thursday’s high-level meeting between Mexican and US officials in […]
US reunites only seven immigrant children with parents since February
Los Angeles, USReuters An effort by US President Joe Biden to reunite migrant families separated by the previous administration is moving slowly, with only seven children reunited with parents by a task force launched in February, according to a US Department of Homeland Security report released on Tuesday. Another 29 families are set to be […]
Migration crisis: Biden tells migrants to stay put. Central Americans hear a different message
LAURA GOTTESDIENER, of Reuters, reports from Guatemala on the growing migrant crisis on the southern US border…
Two more leave church sanctuary in US as immigration policies ease
RNS An Ohio woman and a Missouri man who took sanctuary in churches to avoid deportation have been allowed to leave. Miriam Vargas, who along with her two children has been living at First English Lutheran Church in Columbus, Ohio, was granted an “order of supervision” by Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday, meaning she […]
End in sight?: Immigrants in sanctuary in US churches hope Biden offers relief
PHILIP MARCELO, SOPHIA TAREEN and JIM SALTER, of Associated Press, reports on the plight of those who have been living in church sanctuary to avoid deportation – and their hope things will change under new US President Joe Biden…