(February 26, 2013, MIAMI, FL) – Over the weekend, just days before the March 1st deadline for the federal budget sequestration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) quietly began releasing detainees from immigration detention facilities across the United States. ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christensen said this is being done “in order to make the best use of our limited detention resources in the …
MIAMI HERALD: MIAMI GROUP LAUDS IMMIGRATION REFORM EFFORTS
MIAMI | Sun Feb 24, 2013 By Alphonso Chardy Each year, the Miami-based Americans for Immigrant Justice generally honors immigrants who succeed in winning asylum or a green card against all odds. Things will be a little different this time. The organization will be celebrating bipartisanship at its 17th annual gala on March 7, as Republicans and Democrats begin working …
POR BUEN CAMINO REFORMA INMIGRATORIA EN ESTADOS UNIDOS
A pesar de persistir las dudas, muchos abogados e inmigrantes indocumentados acogieron positivamente el borrador bipartidista para una amplia reforma inmigratoria. news videos
REUTERS: IMMIGRANTS COME OUT OF THE SHADOWS TO FULFILL A DREAM
Carlos Roa celebrated this summer when the Obama administration announced a new program to defer deportation for young undocumented immigrants. But two months into the program, the 25-year-old activist has yet to apply. Roa, whose parents brought him here from Venezuela when he was two, is facing many of the same worries and complications as thousands of the other young …
LA TIMES: UNACCOMPANIED MIGRANT YOUTH IN U.S. DETENTION CENTERS RISES 50%
Gang violence in Central America has led to a startling increase in the number of children who make the dangerous journey across the Mexican border alone in search of asylum in the United States, according to a report by the Women’s Refugee Commission, a nonprofit that advocates for displaced women and children. The number of unaccompanied migrant children in U.S. …