child migrants

Despite losing its state child care license — and years of claims of abuses — an immigrant family detention center in Pennsylvania made room for more families

July 13, 2018

Updated

07/13/2018 - 2:30pm

Advocates say the state is turning a blind eye to violations of state law by allowing the Berks County Residential Center to remain in operation.

Immigration

The government says Border Patrol agents in the Southwest speak Spanish — but many migrants speak Indigenous languages

The World

July 03, 2018

The demand for interpreters is on the rise, especially since children have been separated from their parents at the southern border.

Immigration

The government faces deadlines to reunite migrant families. It’s unclear if it will meet them.

The World

June 28, 2018

A court ordered the government to reunite families within one month, or 14 days for cases involving children under 5. But with parents and children split and put on different, complex tracks, that might prove challenging.

Immigration

This mother, already deported, doesn’t know if she’ll ever be reunited with the daughter taken from her at the US border

The World

June 25, 2018

Magdalena knows where her daughter Maria is, but has no way of reuniting with her. They were separated and Magdalena was deported during the pilot phase of the Trump administration's “zero-tolerance” policy, last August.

Immigration

Why the Trump administration is asking the courts to remove safeguards for detaining migrant children

The World

June 22, 2018

The court ruling in question says if migrant children are detained, it should be short and in facilities that are more like childcare facilities than prisons.

Immigration

Trump’s new order on families at the border raises even more questions about what happens next for child migrants

The World

June 21, 2018

We’re answering some of your most pressing questions about what happens next.

Immigration

For a child migrant, days feel like a lifetime when you’re imprisoned and alone

The World

June 20, 2018

Beth Lew-Williams’ grandfather was 9 when he was separated from family and placed in immigration detention. And he held the pain of the experience for 72 years.