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The rhetoric about asylum seekers may have changed under Biden, but the policies leading to separations, not so much.

6 May 2021 President Joe Biden’s border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas, is using the little-known “parole” side door in border law to bring legally deported migrants back for televised reunions with their left-behind, asylum-seeking children. “Our highest priority is to reunite these families … It’s not about righting the wrong of the past, it’s about restoring the conscience of our government,” Mayorkas said he touted his return of four deported migrants in a May 4 appearance on MS...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.Donate This week, four parents from Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico were reunited with their children in the United States after being separated under former President Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. They were the first families to be reunited on U.S. soil since the Biden administration began its reunification process. “Although we love to see the reunifications and they’re very moving, we have to keep in mind what l...

Updated: 10:05 PM CDT May 5, 2021 By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Bryan Chávez carried a bundle of Mothers Day balloons as he headed toward the border.It had been more than three years since the last time he saw his mom in person — the day when authorities separated them in 2017. Chávez was 15 at the time, and he feared this moment would never come. Even after he recently learned theyd finally be reunited, he couldnt believe it."I was like... am I actually going to see her tod...

Sources say letting Greene keep committee assignments while ousting Cheney from leadership would have looked bad.

Study Putin’s soul? Biden says he doesn’t have one.

A longstanding St. Joseph County debate over school district boundaries captured the state’s attention last week after Republican lawmakers booed and shouted down Black legislators’ concerns about discrimination in a bill that would remove students from the racially diverse South Bend Community School Corp. and send them to the smaller, less diverse John Glenn School Corp. House Bill 1367, which advanced to the state Senate last week, would provide a new mechanism for John Glenn to se...

A Black lawmaker said he was verbally accosted by a fellow lawmaker in the restroom following last weeks contentious House floor debate on a South Bend Community School Corp.-related bill

INDIANAPOLIS — Tensions flared at the Indiana Statehouse Thursday when several Black lawmakers were shouted down and booed by Republican lawmakers during floor debate on a South Bend Community School Corp.-related bill that some see as discriminatory. Rep. Greg Porter, D-Indianapolis, walked off the House floor after several Republican lawmakers loudly objected to his calls of discrimination in House Bill 1367. Porter, a member of the Black caucus, said the bill would allow students in St....