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Is there a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border? If so, what kind? What role does the border wall play and what are its affects on the local people and ecosystem on both sides of the border? What are many ways people and organizations along the border doing to assist migrants and to humanize their immigration… Read More
Trump Administration Seeks To Close International Immigration Offices
By: Vanessa Romo | Joel Rose | NPR
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is in “preliminary discussions” to shutter 23 field offices around the world to save millions. Critics say it will exacerbate a processing bottleneck.
State Of The Union: ‘Tonight, I Ask You To Choose Greatness,’ Trump Says
By: Jessica Taylor | NPR
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The president’s second State of the Union address touched on many of his familiar themes and agenda items but also included moments and proposals that drew positive reaction from Democrats.
Pentagon Deploying 3,750 Troops To Southern Border
By: Matthew S. Schwartz I NPR
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U.S. service members will install wire barriers and help monitor the border. However, some in Congress have questioned whether it’s a good use of active-duty troops.
U.S. Is Rolling Out Its ‘Remain In Mexico’ Policy On Central American Asylum-Seekers
By: Richard Gonzales | NPR
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The plan, expected to meet with a swift legal challenge, comes out of talks with Mexican officials. The administration is implementing it first at the San Ysidro, Calif., port of entry.
![Mirna Yolanda Contreras, 29 (left), and Paula Arita, 32, are both from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. "Since we met in Puebla [Mexico], we have never separated. We became very good friends; we slept in the same place the whole time," Contreras said.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/valabregaf_1244_15dec18_14-4483b2e25f69b96b079331de0ec9518b80015993-e1547771660330-900x422.jpg)
‘I’m A Survivor Of Violence’: Portraits Of Women Waiting In Mexico For U.S. Asylum
By: Federica Valabrega | NPR
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Photographer Federica Valabrega photographed Central American women who fled domestic violence and joined a migrant caravan to seek asylum in the U.S.
Federal Immigration Agents Separated More Migrant Children Than Previously Thought
By: John Burnett | NPR
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Before family separation became an official and controversial policy of the Trump administration, federal immigration agents separated “thousands” of migrant children from their parents.
Trump Gives First Oval Office Speech As Partial Shutdown Continues
By: Jessica Taylor | NPR
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Trump has said he won’t sign any bill to reopen the government unless Congress acquiesces to his request for $5.7 billion to build a southern border wall — something Democrats have staunchly opposed.
DOJ, Largely Shut Down, Nonetheless Issued Statements On Southern Border Cases
By: Carrie Johnson | NPR
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The department’s public affairs apparatus is mostly idle for lack of funding, but that didn’t stop it from making announcements in support of the administration’s messaging about immigrants.
Tent City Housing Migrant Children To Close As Kids Are Released To Sponsors
By: John Burnett | NPR
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The Department of Health and Human Services confirms the population at Tornillo, Texas, is down from nearly 3,000 adolescents last month to about 1,500. The camp is due to close at the end of January.
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