By Eoin Higgins The U.S. held a record 69,550 migrant children in detention facilities in 2019, a Tuesday report from The Associated Press and PBS Frontline found, leading to major ps... Read more
By Pilar Marrero Five federal courts have banned the United States government in the last few days from changing the rules on the use of public benefits for applicants seeking permane... Read more
by Jake Johnson The Trump administration has reportedly ended a program which allowed immigrants with serious illnesses to temporarily remain in the U.S., a move by the White House th... Read more
By Jake Johnson Rights groups reacted with horror and outrage on Wednesday after the Trump adminstration unveiled a rule that would allow the federal government to detain migrant fami... Read more
Rep. Jason Crow (CO-06) announced this week, that his office will take the unprecedented step of setting up weekly visits to the Aurora Contract Detention Facility in his district. The launc... Read more
by Julia Conley Amid reports of severe abuse and neglect in the immigrant detention centers the Trump administration is running, human rights campaigners are planning hundreds of demo... Read more
By Julia Travers Immigrant children are dying in federal custody. Children in detention are being denied basic supplies like soap and blankets—and the Trump administration says that’s... Read more
by Eoin Higgins An activist who was put on trial for providing water and humanitarian aid to migrants in the American Southwest desert was acquitted Tuesday by a hung jury. Scott Warr... Read more
By Jake Johnson Lending even greater significance to the parallels commentators and historians have drawn between U.S. migrant detention centers and concentration camps of the past, t... Read more
By Jake Johnson The Trump administration earlier this year reportedly considered detaining migrant children at Guantánamo Bay, the 17-year-old U.S. prison in Cuba that human ri... Read more