Page 18 - Asylum Case News Today

�� Documented Original Achintya Sharma had left New York City to attend his father’s funeral in New Delhi, India, when President Joe Biden announced a ban on travel from India to reduce the spread of a COVID-19 variant. This left Sharma and hundreds of other Indian people working in the U.S. stranded in India after they traveled for pandemic-related family emergencies. Siva, from Princeton, New Jersey, hasn’t seen his wife since she visited India to take care of her mother in February. ...

During a Monday visit to Guatemala, Vice President Kamala Harris warned Central American migrants against traveling to the U.S. “If you come to our border, you will be turned back,” she said after meeting with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tweeted in response to Harris’ message, writing “this is disappointing to see.” Symone Sanders, a spokesperson for Harris, added via email that Biden and Harris “have been clear in dissuading peopl...

>> reporter: he says if he could, he would go back tomorrow. but the journey is difficult. sidia guevara is from honduras, a mother to a 14 and 10-year-old. she spent a year and a half apart from her children after they crossed the u.s. border while she waited on her asylum case in mexico. the children living with a foster family in ohio. their foster mother speaking about sidias heartbreaking choice. >> like any other mom, she just wants the best for her children. she had to make the hardest de...

There are close to 40 percent more people in immigration detention now than when President Joe Biden took office, even though his administration is turning away migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and warning them not to come to the U.S. But research shows threatening migrants with detention and deportation doesn’t deter them from crossing the border, especially if they’re victims of violence and looking to escape from their home countries. Emily Ryo, a professor of law and sociology at the ...

Newsroom Navigation Outside 26 Federal Plaza, the site of one of New York Citys three immigration courts. Max Siegelbaum for Documented Human Rights Groups Demand End to Digital Surveillance of Immigrants Plus: Californias governor pardons firefighters facing deportation, a loophole may expose Chicago immigrants information, and more. Human rights groups are calling on the Biden administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to halt a digital surveillance program that follows cl...

Plus: New York City immigrant parents demand diverse school curriculum, and backlog grows as immigration courts stay closed.

Plus: Immigrant farmworkers dissect discriminatory practices, Minnesota teacher honored for understanding immigrant students, and more.

New York City Trying to Improve Latinos’ Low COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Plus: Tax documents are keeping undocumented workers from relief funds, bill would end ICE contracts with local governments, and more. When Myrna Lazcano, a community activist from Mexico who lives in East Harlem, got COVID-19, her symptoms dragged on for months. This long-haul illness drove Lazcano to get the COVID-19 vaccine and to share her experience to encourage other Latinos to get it as well. Latinos have been twic...

Plus: Harris counts on Guatemala to partner on migration reform, and advocates want to provide free legal representation to immigrants.

Migrant Parents Feel Forced to Send Children Across the Border Alone Many migrants are sending their children to the U.S. alone because those with older children are being rapidly expelled. Marely traveled for 13 days with her mother from El Salvador toward the U.S.-Mexico border. But once they made it to a raft to cross the Rio Grande, the 12-year-old found out her mother wasn’t coming with her. Marely had to then turn herself in to Border Patrol agents in La Joya, Texas. Her mother is among...