Truthout
Immigration
New Senate Bill Fails to Address Root Causes of Central American Migration
Senate Democrats have introduced a bill allocating $2.7 billion this year to deal with the surge of unaccompanied children and families from Central America entering the United States.
“Primitive” Deprivation of Citizenship Powers Come Into Force
Deprivation of citizenship has been described by the US Supreme Court as a form of punishment more primitive than torture.
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Open Letter to President Obama
My name is Jose Angel N., and I am an undocumented immigrant from Mexico.
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Borderland Deaths of Migrants Quietly Reach Crisis Numbers
While most media attention has been focused on the surge of children fleeing Central American countries for the United States, the immigrant death toll on the US-Mexico border has …
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Running for Their Lives: The Child Migrant Crisis
US policies stoked the gang violence Central American kids are fleeing.
Blowback on the Border: The United States’ Child Refugee Crisis
Decades of short-sighted, inhumane US policies have brought a child refugee crisis to the United States' door.
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Child Migrants Are Refugees the US Helped Create
Central American children fleeing poverty and gang violence are refugees - often from situations US policies have helped to create - and they should be treated as such.
Love and Loathing in North Texas Amid Child Refugee Crisis
A Dallas judge and area charities are striving to house and provide social services to thousands of refugee children.
US Turns Back on Child Migrants After Its Policies in Guatemala, Honduras Sowed Seeds of Crisis
As tens of thousands of children cross the US border fleeing violence in their native Central American home countries, the hosts look at the historical roots of the crisis.
“Deporter-in-Chief” to Reach 2 Million Mark
Despite record numbers of immigrants deported, immigrant rights groups across the country have resisted draconian measures to destroy American families.