By Prachi Gupta Thursday, August 23, 2018 Immigration and Customs Enforcement is legally required to unite migrant children held in youth shelters with family or guardians as soon as possible, and place them in the “least restrictive” settings until they do so. But increasingly, children who turn 18 in youth shelters are being sent to adult detention facilities or jail …
ICE’S ILLEGAL ABUSE OF TEENAGERS PROVES THE AGENCY IS BEYOND REFORM – SLATE
By MARK JOSEPH STERN and SOFIE WERTHAN AUG 23, 20187:01 PM Early one morning in February 2018, an undocumented immigrant named Ana was told to report to a government office within the shelter where she was being housed. A month earlier, she had fled to the United States from Guatemala with her 2-year-old son after gang members threatened to kill her. Because she …
YOUR HONOR, CAN I PLAY WITH THAT GAVEL? – NEW YORK TIMES
By Jennifer Anzardo Valdes Video by Leah Varjacques Aug. 22, 2018 Media coverage of the border crisis has heavily focused on separated parents and children. But migrant children’s nightmares are just beginning once they set foot here, as documented in the video above. Every child that crosses the border without permission has an immigration court case to fight, but there is …
LAWYERS GIVE COLORING BOOKS TO KIDS SEPARATED AT BORDER – NBC 6
Wednesday, Aug 22, 2018 Attorneys are using coloring books to communicate with children separated from family at the border. Watch on NBC 6 here.
THE GOVERNMENT ISN’T DOING ANYTHING TO REUNITE THIS FAMILY IT BROKE APART – VICE
By Meredith Hoffman August 6, 2018 A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to do everything it can to reunify families separated at the border, but some children and parents remain trapped in different countries. Ever since he was separated from his eight-year-old daughter almost three months ago, Miguel has been fighting to get her back. She calls him when …
FOR ATTORNEYS WHO REPRESENT MIGRANT CHILDREN, WORK IS JUST BEGINNING – MIAMI HERALD
BY BRENDA MEDINA July 25, 2018 Attorney Angeliki Bouliakis Andronis keeps a giant blue stuffed rabbit in her office — a token to help calm her smallest clients. “Sometimes I give them the toy to make them feel more comfortable, to give them something to hold on to, touch and feel,” said Bouliakis, who represents immigrant children applying for U.S. …
PARA LOS ABOGADOS QUE REPRESENTAN A LOS NIÑOS INMIGRANTES, LA TAREA APENAS COMIENZA – EL NUEVO HERALD
POR BRENDA MEDINA 25 de julio de 2018 La abogada Angeliki Bouliakis Andronis tiene en su oficina un enorme conejo de peluche de color azul claro. Con él tranquiliza a sus clientes más pequeños. “Algunas veces les doy el peluche para que se sientan cómodos, para que tengan algo que agarrar, tocar y sentir”, explicó Bouliakis, quien representa a niños …
SOME PARENTS, IMMIGRANT KIDS REUNIFIED IN MIAMI, BUT FEDS ‘UNLIKELY’ TO MEET DEADLINE – MIAMI HERALD
BY MARTIN VASSOLO July 25, 2018 After visiting an immigrant shelter in Homestead last week — one of three in Miami-Dade County housing children separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border — a South Florida lawmaker said Wednesday that he was skeptical that the Trump administration would meet a court-imposed deadline requiring the reunification of families split up at …
‘SCARED TO DEATH’: MIAMI HAITIANS FEAR FAMILY SEPARATIONS IF PROTECTED STATUS EXPIRES – MIAMI HERALD
BY MARTIN VASSOLO July 24, 2018 Warning of the potential for a new family separation crisis within South Florida’s sprawling Haitian and Central American neighborhoods, immigrant advocates and Haitian-born recipients long shielded from deportation are calling for the Trump administration to extend their Temporary Protected Status prior to the 2019 deadline. Parents who came to the U.S. following the devastating 2010 earthquake …
“ME ESTABA DESANGRANDO”: PERDIERON A SUS BEBÉS POR PRESUNTA NEGLIGENCIA MÉDICA EN CENTROS DE INMIGRACIÓN – NOTICIERO UNIVISIÓN
Vilma Tarazona July 23, 2018 Vea la entrevista aquí.