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Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on December 29, 2018 3 Comments
Back in 2014, then-president Obama and his administration were alarmed by the huge number of unaccompanied minors flooding into the U. S.  From October 2013 to September 2014, a whopping 52,000 unaccompanied children were apprehended by border control. The problem was so severe, that Obama officially warned parents in South American countries to stop sending their unaccompanied children to the U. S.  He assured them that the children would be deported back to their country of origin.

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on December 22, 2018 20 Comments
Yesterday, Kemberlee blogged about the partial government shutdown, and today, the Senate adjourned until December 27, 2018.  The partial government shutdown will not be resolved until they return. Meanwhile, recent polls show that 81% of Americans believe that border security is "an important issue," and Republican support for the wall, specifically, is on the increase.

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 21, 2018 7 Comments
This process has been a joke for far too long. An immigrant seeking asylum could just disappear into the United States once they got here. Mexico has now agreed to a new Trump administration policy which will keep asylum seekers there while we figure out whether or not they should be here.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on December 19, 2018 34 Comments
Wednesday, US District Judge Emmet Sullivan (the same judge presiding over former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's sentencing) ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in a complaint brought by the ACLU against the Justice Department's guidance on the application of asylum benefits.

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 05, 2018 18 Comments
The government needs to come up with spending bills by Friday or the government will shut down. Border wall funding has halted the talks as disagreements between the Democrats and President Donald Trump continue. Trump wants $5 billion, but the Democrats will not budge from their demand of only $1.6 billion.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on December 04, 2018 36 Comments
It appears the members of the caravan from Central America are growing increasingly frustrated by both the legal entry process and the immigration "organizers" who have herded them to the US-Mexico border. To begin with, dozens of migrants who are disheartened by the slow pace of the formal asylum-seeking process breached the U.S.-Mexico border Monday by scaling a 10-foot metal fence.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on November 30, 2018 32 Comments
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has successfully lobbied the United Nations to classify Climate Change as legitimate grounds for migration, a communique issued by the German parliament disclosed. "In order to shape migration in the context of Climate Change in sustainable manner, Germany advocated to recognize Climate Change as basis for migration in international negotiations for the global migration pact," a parliamentary bulletin surfaced on Monday said.  The document was made public on Twitter by Ralf Schuler, the parliamentary correspondent for the German newspaper Bild.
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