Border arrests have soared to highest levels ever recorded
Arrests by the Border Patrol soared to the highest levels ever recorded in the fiscal year that ended in September, according to unpublished U.S. Customs...
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Facebook to pay more than $14 million in Justice Dept. settlement over discrimination against U.S. workers
Facebook has agreed to pay more than $14 million in penalties under a settlement with the Justice Department over findings that the company's hiring practices...
Facebook to settle claims it reserved high-paying jobs for workers with special visas
Facebook is paying a $4.75 million fine and up to $9.5 million to eligible victims to resolve the Justice Department’s allegations that it discriminated against...
US plans to reinstate ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy next month
The Biden administration says it plans to reinstate a Trump-era border policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, complying...
Federal immigration agents to end practice of worksite raids
Mass worksite raids were common under former President Donald Trump, including a massive 2019 operation targeting Mississippi chicken plants. The move away from raids more...
How a mental health evaluation can change the course of an immigrant’s life
A psychosocial assessment or evaluation can help verify an immigrant's story, showing immigration officials why someone is in need of a new home country. But...
An asylum-seeker’s wrenching decision: Stay on the run or save his child’s life? VIEW
As a humanitarian crisis grows on Poland’s border, where the government has taken a hard line on migrants, one father had to decide whether to...
Brutal Darien Gap migrant trail claiming hundreds of lives VIEW
In an isolated cemetery in Panama’s Darien province, migrants who die on the most treacherous segment of their journey toward the United States are buried.
Pierce County camp imprisoned thousands in WWII. Here’s where a sculpture will mark it
The Puyallup Assembly Center was the only incarceration facility in Washington state formed after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order in February 1942...
US official in Haiti apologizes for treatment of migrants VIEW
A top U.S. official has apologized for how Haitian migrants were treated along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying it’s not how border officials or the Department...
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