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After obtaining his law degree, Schey represented low-income immigrants at the Legal Aid Society of San Diego.

From the start of the new administration to August 2022, U.S. authorities have reported at least 372 cases of family separation.

Children and their guardians are still being cleaved apart in Texas—and elsewhere—under the new administration.

In a heated debate over farmworker voting rights, California’s governor refuses to sign a bill to make it easier for workers to win union recognition.

As illegal immigrant children surge across the southern border, the Biden administration says it's making sure it places pregnant teens in states where they can still get abortions in the wake of this summer's Supreme Court ruling.

The agreement resolves litigation prompted in 2019 by the inhumane conditions in which children were housed at border facilities in Texas.

Los Angeles immigrants' rights organizations filed suit today in a bid to force the Biden administration to promptly issue work permits to young immigrants who have applications pending for special youth visas.

Brittany Murray/Pool/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brittany Murray/Pool/Getty Images Sleeping quarters set up for migrant children are shown during a tour of the Long Beach Convention Center on April 22. Long Beach officials and officials with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services led the tour. Brittany Murray/Pool/Getty Images Immigration advocates credit the Biden administration with acting quickly to move tens of thousands of migr...

Brittany Murray / Pool/Getty Images Immigration advocates credit the Biden administration with acting quickly to move tens of thousands of migrant children out of jail-like detention facilities on the U.S. southern border and into safer emergency shelters. But the advocates are now growing increasingly concerned about the conditions in the mass shelters, such as a military base in El Paso, Texas. "We saw a lot of very traumatized children," said Leecia Welch, an attorney at the nonprofit...

pandemic, and now as vaccines become more widely available, we are reporting on how our local schools, businesses and communities are returning to a more "normal" future. Theres never been more of a need for the kind of local, independent and unbiased journalism that The Day produces. Please support our work by subscribing today. New migrant facilities crop up in effort to ease crowding In this March 30, 2021, file photo, young unaccompanied migrants, from ages 3 to 9, watch television insid...