Trump’s Pick for UN Migration Job Voted Down

Jul 3, 2018 | Uncategorized

Trump’s controversial pick for top UN migration job voted down in Geneva BY: Zachary Cohen and Elise Labott Washington (CNN)–The UN migration agency on Friday voted down Ken Isaacs, the Trump administration’s candidate to lead the International...

Detained Migrants Were Allegedly Abused

Aug 12, 2015 | Latest

By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee A 14-year-old Guatemalan migrant is left stranded in a wooded area in Mexico after the freight train she was traveling on had a minor derailment. Credit: Rebecca Blackwell/AP After she arrived at an immigrant detention facility, a Guatemalan woman...

How the U.S. ‘Solved’ the Central American Migrant Crisis

Jun 19, 2015 | Uncategorized

By getting Mexico to do its dirty work—and making migrants more vulnerable to rape, kidnapping, and murder. By Joseph Sorrentino / In These Times La Bestia is running empty now. For years, the freight trains collectively known as “The Beast” carried Central American...

ICE frees some migrant women & children

Jun 12, 2015 | Uncategorized

  by Franco Ordoñez June 12, 2015 WASHINGTON — Federal officials have released at least a half-dozen detained mothers and their children from a south Texas detention center as scrutiny of the Obama administration’s family detention program escalates. On Friday,...