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Deportation Journeys Wind Through Ohio Detention Facilities
By: M.L. Schultze | WKSU
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Ohio is far from the U.S. southern border, but the policies and practices there are playing out here daily. The Cleveland Immigration Court has a caseload numbering in the thousands. Ohio jails… Read More
![Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan testifies on security at the border and migrant detention during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on Thursday.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/gettyimages-1156317483-d9d09f5033f22730ce4d93238cc3c97c970c8649-e1563475050120-900x422.jpg)
Homeland Security Chief Faces Off With Democrats On Border Crisis
By: Claudia Grisales | Brian Naylor | NPR
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Acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan is appearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee amid a heated debate between the GOP and Democrats about the administration’s immigration policies.
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U.S. Sen. Brown Blames Trump Administration For Denying Access To Border Facility
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) says he was denied access to a Customs and Border Control detention facility that houses children over the weekend. Brown wanted to see the facilities… Read More
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DeWine Warns Feds: Don’t Use Ohio Facial Data For ICE Raids
By: Jo Ingles | Statehouse News Bureau
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Some states have been asked to provide photos from driver’s licenses so the feds can use facial recognition software for identification and location purposes. Federal immigration officials are ramping up… Read More
![A youth in Tijuana, Mexico, stands by the border fence that separates Mexico from the United States, where candles and crosses stand in memory of migrants who have died during their journey toward the U.S.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ap_19181721349760-d5607b168b1780173853449577f99d332cd9251f-e1562097090818-900x422.jpg)
Trump Administration Sends Out Notices Of $500,000 Fines For Those In U.S. Illegally
By: Franco Ordoñez | NPR
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The Trump administration is seeking to fine some immigrants in the country illegally hundreds of thousands of dollars for failing to follow court’s directions so they can be removed.
![Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, speaks alongside members of the Hispanic Caucus after touring the Border Patrol station in Clint, Texas, on Monday.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ap_19182841949232-dd3911b821a833fcc40a05f60232412d90ddf3e8-e1562079189572-900x422.jpg)
Lawmakers Respond To ‘Vile,’ Secret Facebook Group Created By Border Patrol Agents
By: Vanessa Romo | NPR
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Among the group’s most offensive posts were discussions of recent migrant deaths, jokes about throwing burritos at lawmakers and illustrations depicting sexually aggressive acts.
![President Trump, shown at an event in Montoursville, Pa., in May, is calling a rally in Orlando, Fla., on Tuesday a campaign kickoff.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ap_19141056810508-f44f919c06202f55c03e04b8912482dd8163299f-e1560876517629-900x422.jpg)
Trump Threatens To Deport ‘Millions,’ As He Kicks Off Campaign For Reelection
By: Franco Ordoñez | NPR
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The administration is seeking to ramp up deportation, focusing on those who have skipped court hearings.
![President Trump announces a new immigration proposal in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/gettyimages-1144046889-6a0b7e45770e98cd71d0b9208a39a31c20a75ee7-e1558035625294-900x422.jpg)
Trump Outlines ‘Merit-Based’ Immigration Plan, Still Far From Becoming Law
By: Tamara Keith | NPR
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President Trump’s proposal would keep legal immigration levels the same but dramatically change who would be let in. It does not address the estimated 11 million people in the U.S. illegally.
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Voices from the Border
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… Read More
![U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on Tuesday the agency is seeking to close all of its foreign field offices around the world, a move introduced by Director L. Francis Cissna.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/ap_18160014189628-332e56114f39b21307d2312ffd00e9f05cff5565-e1552493030999-900x422.jpg)
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.
![President Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/rtx6lfxe-b5bb4b3e7ac78ddf4bef3643bd22acc0dd589c00-e1549426764488-900x422.jpg)
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.
![Members of the U.S. military install multiple tiers of concertina wire along the banks of the Rio Grande near the Juarez-Lincoln Bridge at the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, in November.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ap_19029667220652-0c3105ff78386d3332867d0757d4cd3d06fa66e5-e1549317812676-900x422.jpg)
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.
![Honduran asylum seekers enter the U.S. at San Diego's Otay Mesa port of entry, as seen from Tijuana, Mexico.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ap_18353657648000-e923466cabb49f26995dffeb21668aa7736e241f-e1548437045898-900x422.jpg)
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.
![Teen migrants wait in line inside the Tornillo detention camp in Tornillo, Texas in Dec. 2018.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ap_18347656734157-5996c337f7baa85c130db912da04f721d505fae7-e1547748912908-900x422.jpg)
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.
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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.
![Work at the Justice Department's headquarters in Washington has been slower than normal because of the government shutdown. Even so, it's calling attention to administration priorities about the southern border.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ap_79839853662-50b035ff07e0ab66b8aecb636b28df2b1bf636a3-e1546964771250-900x422.jpg)
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.
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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.
![A Border Patrol officer inside his vehicle guards the border fence at San Diego across the border from Tijuana, Mexico.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ap_19003294635364-1e0dfd8b93d3e2c7d9e74a537c227dbdf82e78b0-e1546546496952-900x422.jpg)
Troops To Be Deployed To Border To Build 160 Miles Of Fencing
By: Tom Bowman | NPR
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The Department of Homeland Security has asked the Pentagon to provide additional active-duty troops on the Southern border. They will upgrade or add 160 miles of fencing in Arizona and California.
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2018 Was A Year Of Drastic Cuts To U.S. Refugee Admissions
By: Deborah Amos | NPR
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America is rejecting more legal immigrants than ever before. Refugee advocates warn that President Trump’s aim is to dismantle the U.S. refugee resettlement program.
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Despite Remaining ISIS Threats, Pompeo Says U.S. Made ‘Caliphate In Syria Go Away’
By: Peter Granitz | NPR
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In an interview with NPR, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expanded on remarks by President Trump, who declared the U.S. had “won against ISIS” and would pull troops from Syria.
![Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen looks at her papers while testifying before members of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday in Washington, D.C.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/nielsen2-c76ffe41201cd920ea8d625335e9a56812162cee-e1545344102341-900x422.jpg)
Trump Administration Will Send Asylum-Seekers To Mexico While Claims Are Processed
By: Camila Domonoske | Carrie Kahn | John Burnett | NPR
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Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Thursday that migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico — regardless of country of origin — must wait in Mexico while their claims are heard.
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FACT CHECK: Mexico Isn’t Paying For The Border Wall, Military Unlikely To Build It
By: Tamara Keith | NPR
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With a proposed government funding bill not putting money into President Trump’s border wall, he’s now talking about different ways to complete his long-promised project.
![Migrant children walk outside the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children in Homestead, Fla. Shelters for migrant children are almost at capacity and the federal government says they will now speed the release of thousands before Christmas.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/ap_18173554288887-3555d7a9349b1575dcd42dcd838833da32e69491-e1545171059617-900x422.jpg)
Several Thousand Migrant Children In U.S. Custody Could Be Released Before Christmas
By: John Burnett | NPR
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The Department of Health and Human Services plans to speed the release of several thousand migrant children from federally contracted shelters before Christmas, to relatives already living in the U.S.
![Tear gas thrown by U.S. border agents is seen near the border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sunday.](https://woub.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/gettyimages-1065219560-6bf878369eb92180ae663c5fb277f216c52cd31b-e1543344142471-900x422.jpg)
FACT CHECK: What’s Happening On The U.S.-Mexico Border?
By: Camila Domonoske | Richard Gonzales | NPR
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On Sunday, U.S. agents fired tear gas at migrants trying to cross into San Diego from Tijuana, Mexico. The migrants were protesting the slow pace with which the U.S. has been processing asylum claims.